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STUDENT TEACHING LESSON PLAN OUTLINE

Student Teaching Lesson Plan Outline

Anna Bedillion

University of Richmond

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STUDENT TEACHING LESSON PLAN OUTLINE
Anna Bedillion
EDUC 510C
April 13, 2010
Student Teaching Lesson Plan Outline

Introduction

 Edgar Allan Poe and “The Fall of the House of Usher” are the topics.

 The lesson should last one 90 minute block period for an 11th grade regular level

American literature course.

 “Virginia Standard of Learning 11.7a.

The student will:

a) Generate, gather, plan, and organize ideas for writing.”

(Virginia Board of Education, 2003).

Learning Objectives

In this lesson, students will:

 Demonstrate knowledge of Poe’s work “The Fall of the House of Usher”

 Identify the setting and mood in “The Fall of the House of Usher”

 Combine critical thinking skills and group-thinking skills in dissecting the meaning

behind “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Teaching and Learning Sequence

 Introduction or Anticipatory Set: I will ask students to turn in their five-paragraph essay

on the dramatic reading or acting of Poe’s works during the tour of the Edgar Allan Poe

museum the previous day. Before students hand these in, I will ask them to present the

essays from their desks, reading them aloud. We will then discuss as a class, for a grade

of participation, how the acting/dramatic reading enhanced the mood of Poe’s works
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during the tour. I will then ask for volunteers for responses to “The Fall of the House of

Usher.”

 Lesson Development: We will then continue the class by having students log-on to their

laptops (assuming they are provided by the county as in Henrico’s one-to-one program),

and take the ten question online quiz on the Poe museum website (Wilson, 2010).

Students will take the quiz and then determine how well they have done. We will share

the answers together as a class.

 I will then begin calling on students to start reading Poe’s “The Fall of the House of

Usher” aloud to the class. Once this reading is finished, I will give out a hand-out (Web

English Teacher, 2010) of eight questions on Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” to

students and divide students into groups of 4 or 5 depending on the class size. Students

must each place their names on the paper and come up with answers to the questions to

be presented in front of the class and then turned in for a grade. These questions will

prompt an in-class discussion on “The Fall of the House of Usher” and its meaning,

during which students must actively listen, participate, and take notes. The group work

will be handed-in to me after it is presented.

 Closure: Students will be able to provide their own personal responses to “The Fall of

the House of Usher” in a five-paragraph formal essay to be composed and turned-in

during the last 20 minutes of class.

 Homework: Students will read the white board which has tonight’s assignment listed and

copy this down at the end of the class period. Some vocabulary words will be listed and

students will need to create original sentences using these words in correct context after

they have looked up the definitions in an online dictionary. The rest of the homework
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listed will be to read Poe’s “The Raven” and to be ready to verbally answer questions on

“The Raven” and have a class discussion on it the next class period for a grade.

 Formative Assessment: I will be asking students to read “The Fall of the House of

Usher” aloud as a class, and then to get into groups to answer the eight questions on the

Web English Teacher (2010) hand-out on this work. Groups will compose formal

answers, present these to the class as a group, allow questions and class discussion during

their presentations on the meaning of Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and turn in

their responses to the eight questions on the hand-out.

 Summative Assessment: Students will be graded fairly and equally based on if they fully

answered the questions on the hand-out as a group and seem to have a good

understanding of the work and on their own individual formal five-paragraph essay

response to “The Fall of the House of Usher” and the meaning they got from the work

and how it affected them personally. Finally, the homework given has the students

reading Poe’s “The Raven” and to be ready to respond to in-class questions and

discussion the following class for a grade.

 Grading Rubric: This is the grading rubric for the formal five- paragraph in-class essay

response to “The Fall of the House of Usher” and the meaning they got from reading the

work.

A=93-100

B=92-89

C=88-79

D=78-70

F=69-0
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Students will receive an A is their grammar is excellent, their thoughts are well-captured

in compound-complex sentences, they use a five-paragraph essay format with an

introduction, body, and conclusion, and if they capture the main ideas of “The Fall of the

House of Usher.”

Students will receive a B if the grammar exhibited is good, their thoughts are organized,

they use a five-paragraph essay format, and they capture some of the main concepts of

“The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Students will receive a C if they exhibit average grammar skills with some mistakes in

usage and mechanics, if some but not all of their thoughts are organized into paragraphs

that flow well, if they use a five-paragraph essay format, and they capture at least two

main concepts of “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Students will receive a D if they exhibit below-average grammar skills with many

problems in usage and mechanics, if their sentences and paragraphs are somewhat

disorganized, if they use a three-paragraph essay format, and they capture only one

concept or main idea of “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Students will receive a grade of F if their grammar is very poor with numerous mistakes

in usage and mechanics, if they use fragments instead of complete sentences, if their

paragraphs are not organized, if they do not use at least a three-paragraph essay format,

and if do not express any main ideas relating to “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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References

Virginia Board of Education. (2003). English standards of learning: Curriculum framework:

Grade twelve. Retrieved from

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/english/index.shtml

Virginia Board of Education. (2003). English standards of learning: Grade twelve. Retrieved

from http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/english/index.shtml

Virginia Department of Education. (2004) English standards of learning: Enhanced scope and

sequence for grades 9-12. Retrieved from

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/english/index.shtml

Web English Teacher. (2010). “Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The fall of the house of Usher.’”

Web English teacher. Retrieved from http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poe.html

Wilson, J.S. (2010). “Poe’s life online quiz.” Poe museum. Retrieved from

http://www.poemuseum.org/educational_resources/for_students.html