ELA

10-2: Lesson 15
Unit 2: Novel Study - Speak
Megan Robinson

Specific Lesson Outcome: Essential Questions:
Students will: be able to engage in proofreading via the sentence 1. How does Melinda react to the symbols in The Scarlet Letter, especially
correction activity (Daily). Students will be able to respond to basic the reference to Hester’s “A”? What do you think this reveals about
knowledge and inferential questions in discussion and in writing. Melinda?
(Lesson) 2. What does Heather tell Melinda when she dissolves their friendship? How

does it affect Melinda?
P.O.S. Outcomes:
2.1 Construct meaning from text and context 3. What does Heather do as a “final blow” to Melinda? What does this cause
• Discern and analyze context Melinda to do?
• Understand and interpret content 4. What two things cause the conference with Melinda’s parents in the
• Engage prior knowledge principal’s office? What do the adults want Melinda to do? What does she
• Use reference strategies and reference technologies do?
5. What is the result of the conference with Melinda’s parents? What is the
4.2 Improve thoughtfulness, effectiveness and correctness of most traumatic result of this?
communication 6. Who gives Melinda a ride to the store where her mother works? What
• Enhance thought and understanding and support and detail does he tell her just before they part?
• Enhance organization
7. How does Melinda view herself?
• Consider and address matters of choice
8. Why does Melinda refuse to go with David to his house after the ball
Edit text for matters of correctness game?
9. What happened to Melinda the night of the party?
Preparation:
Write daily agenda on the black board.
Write sentence correction on the white board:
Set up windows on computer – study guide, quiz key, vocab sheet key, notes, and reflection questions.

Materials:
Computers/ projector P whiteboard/markers P Quizzes P Post-it notesP WorksheetsP





ELL Strategies used:
Using Key Visuals P Identifying/Referring to Key Vocab P
Building Background Knowledge P Differentiating for Different Levels P
Providing Explicit Language Instruction P Cooperative Learning
Opportunity for Oral Language Practice Linking Common Ideas
Modeling/Teaching Reading Strategies P Modeling/Teaching Writing Strategies
Presentation:
-Beginning- 10 mins
1. Students stagger in after the bell and pull out homework and yellow books. Students work on the daily sentence correction while I do a
homework check. Some students will have 10 checks today!
2. Go over the study guide homework as review for quiz and an opportunity for those to finish it or add anything that they missed.
-Middle- 45 mins
3. Quiz – hand out quiz #3. Remind students that they should hold onto the quizzes when they are done. No cell phones or books. They
may wait quietly and draw on the back of their tests when they are finished. Note: Some students are behind and therefore will actually
be writing quiz #2 during the time and Quiz 3 later.
4. Once all students are finished, students trade with someone near them to mark the matching section of the quiz.
5. Students put a total out of 10 and hand in their quizzes.
6. Finish notes from quarter 3 of the book. Students will need 3 sticky notes.
7. Continue class by finishing our section 4 vocab sheets. Students copy definitions from the projector.
-End- Remaining time 15 mins –

8. Students will journal. They must show me that they are complete before they pack up.
• Have you ever stopped being friends with someone that was a close friend? How did you deal with it? Explain.
• What are your predictions for Melinda now that she doesn’t even have Heather as a friend? Why? Explain.
• Describe the flashback in this part of the novel.
• Make a list of things that Melinda should have done after the party. Why didn’t she do anything? Explain.
 **If students finish early, they may share their response with a friends near by and make predictions for section 4
Formative Assessment: Summative Assessment:
• Sentence correction – Do Now • Quiz #3

• Homework Check
• Journaling – Exit Slip
Reminders/Reflection Notes:
• Pick up more sticky notes from Juan.

• Correct Quizzes in prep and put grades In D2L.