Bryan Co.

ELA Lesson Plan

Course: 10th Literature and Composition
Unit: 1 Your Role as a Citizen, Analyzing the Works of Civil
Disobedience
Date: August 5, 2015
Day: 3 /
24
Teacher
Centered

Review of Rules for Socratic Seminar

1. Present power point and discuss rules for
Socratic Seminar with students.
2. Students will watch video on example
Socratic Seminar.
3. Students will use Kahoot on their mobile
devices to participate in answering
multiple choice questions about the rules
and procedures of Socratic Seminar.

Students will
use their own
mobile
devices: smart
phones, ipads,
iphones,
android
devices such
as kindle fire,
nexus tablet

Note: Students who do not have a mobile

device will use an ipad from the ipad cart from
the school media center. OR If ipad cart is not
available students can be divided into teams of
2,3, or 4 and use one students mobile device
Student Work:
Students will review Blooms Taxonomy and receive chart
with question stems.
Students will participate in a Document Based Question for
Things Fall Apart, where each group looks at a practice of the Ibo
people that is seen as barbaric and analyze it.
Students will then Jigsaw and discuss their practice with the
different practices.
Students will then prepare for their Socratic Seminar tomorrow on
Things Fall Apart, by developing questions.

Evaluation and Assessment: Students will be assessed according

to their scores on the Kahoot app to assess their knowledge of the
procedures and rules for Socratic Seminar.