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Unit: Fahrenheit 451 Lesson Title: Lesson Plan 2: Grade/Period: 9th

Characters grade
CCSS or State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual
evidence to support analysis of
what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from
the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central
idea of a text and analyze in
detail its development over the
course of the text, including how
it emerges and is shaped and
refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of
the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words
and phrases as they are used in
the text, including figurative and
connotative meanings; analyze
the cumulative impact of specific
word choices on meaning and
tone (e.g., how the language
evokes a sense of time and place;
how it sets a formal or informal
tone).
Resources and Materials:
Book, notebook,

Objective: I can identify themes within Fahrenheit 451.

What students will know and be able to do I can identify character traits.
stated in student friendly language (use
Blooms and DOK levels for higher level
thinking objectives)

Essential Question(s): Do we read books in order to understand human experience?

Over-arching questions of the lesson that will Are themes important within books? Why/why not?
indicate student understanding of
concepts/skills What is it you want the Are some characters more complicated than others?
students to learn/know? Why?

Inclusion Activity: Day 1: Give students a list of top 100 banned books. Give them time
Describe an activity that will ensure that all to go over it, and circle their surprises.
students and their voices are included at the
beginning of the lesson. Day 2: Briefly go over students notes.

Sequence of Activities: Day 1 (Thursday):

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Provide an overview of the flow of the lesson.
Should also include estimates of
pacing/timing.
Instructional Strategies:
Research-based strategies to help students
think critically about the concept/skill
Assessment:
List both formative and summative
assessments that you will use to assess student
understanding. Formative assessments are
given during instruction (check for
understanding), summative are after
completion of instruction (how will you grade
quiz, test, project, paper, presentation,
demonstration, etc.).
1. Inclusion activity, Give students a list of 100 banned books. Let
them read over it, and circle their surprises. Write on the board,
Why do you think some books are banned? Are banning books a
good or bad thing?. Have students write down their responses,
without their name, and put it into a box. Once all students do so,
read a few of the responses and discuss.
2. Begin to talk about the characters. Ask questions like, How is Guy
changing? Why is he changing? What characters are complicated,
and what characters are simple?
3. Continue reading. Try to make it to page 67.
4. Put students into groups of 4, based on who they are sitting next to
(The will be arranged so that at least one student who tested above
grade level for reading will be in each group). Give each group a
character. Have students come up and write down trait/traits of each
character. Students will give this paper to me, and I will put it into a
word document for future use.
Day 2 (Friday):
1. Inclusion activity, go over students notes briefly.
2. Catch up day. Let students read on their own. Students need to
read up to page 80 by Monday.
3. Have one on one meetings with students about their projects. See
where they are at, what they are thinking of doing. Guide students
towards project that will fit them (if they are shy steer them away
from the presentation, if they have trouble writing critically steer
them away from the paper). Try to guide students to what they want
to do, and what they will be successful at.
4. Homework for weekend, read up to page 80.
5. Come back together. Ask if there are any final questions on the
final project.
Journaling Students will be doing double entry journals, to help
them identify important events/quotes, and organize their thoughts
about it.
Discussion Students will discuss what they have noticed, helps me
identify where the class might be, and what might be lacking.
Scaffolding Students will be put into a group with a student at a
higher level, to help them learn.
Formative:
Discussions: Helps me see where students are as a class, and if I
need to go over previous lessons.
Writing: Students will write down character traits as a group.
Journal: The students will hand in their Journals at the end, it
will be a brief check to see if they wrote/how much they wrote.
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Summative:
Journal: The students will hand in their Journals at the end, it
will be a brief check to see if they wrote/how much they wrote.

Final project: Choices deal with characters in some way.

Differentiation:
Describe who will need additional or different
support during this lesson, and how you will
support them. Differentiated instruction could
include testing accommodations, preferential
seating, segmented assignments, a copy of the
teachers notes, assignment notebook, peer
tutors, etc.
A lot of this unit is reading, and is set up so that there will be extra
time to read if needed. The unit can also go faster if the class is
moving faster than expected.
A lot of this unit is also discussion. These discussions will be led by
the students, but I can guide the students to where they need to go,
and if needed I can lead the discussion where it needs to go if the
class is not getting there.
The final project has multiple ways to do it to accommodate
different students. Some of the projects are more difficult than
others. Some of the projects can be as difficult as the student wants
(Example: The paper can be as easy as describing a theme, or as
difficult as finding an important phrase in the book and doing a close
reading on it).

Summary, Integration and
Reflection:
List the way that you will bring students
together to integrate and reflect on their
learning from this lesson
Put students into groups of 4, based on who they are sitting next to
(The will be arranged so that at least one student who tested above
grade level for reading will be in each group). Give each group a
character. Have students come up and write down trait/traits of each
character. Students will give this paper to me, and I will put it into a
word document for future use.

Initial plans could also contain the following:

Accessing Prior Knowledge: What data do you have about what the students already know? What do
they need to know before they can learn this new information? What do the students know about this
topic prior to instruction? How will you engage the students, given what they already know about the
subject?

Anticipatory Set: What will you do to grab the students attention at the start of the lesson?

Questions to Anticipate: What questions will students be asking you during the lesson? How will you
answer them?

Wrap-up Activity and Closure: How will you bring your lesson to an end and tie it to previously learned
material? This is the summary at the end of the lesson. What did they learn?

Homework/ Independent Practice: Based on what they learned in class, what could they do on their
own to practice the skill they learned today? Examples include practice problems, an investigation, a
game, or any other activity to apply what they just learned.

Adaptations: List alternative plans you will make during your lesson as you consider student strengths,
challenges, and possible misunderstandings.
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Remediation: What else can you do/have prepared to do with the students who did not understand the
information you presented?

Enrichment: What else can you do/ have prepared for the student who totally understood what you
taught and needs to take it a step further and extend the information taught?

Changes to Future Lessons: Use your imagination- what do you think might be places in this lesson you
might want to change/ improve/ expand on in the future?