Your Name: Nicole Hecker

Unit Title: Argumentative Writing

Lesson Title: MLA Formatting
Grade/Course: Freshman English (9th)
Time Frame: 90 minutes
Necessary Materials:
MLA Formatting Power Point
Writing Quotes in MLA Style
Article Internet-famous statue of Fearless Girl will stare down bull into 2018
Unit 4 Vocab List
Prior Content Knowledge: Writing Data
New Content Knowledge: MLA Formatting

DESIRED RESULTS

Established Goals: Standard 9.3.2.a.viii

Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and
conventions of the discipline in which they are writing. (CCSS: W.9-10.1d)
Essential Questions / Global: Why is formatting important?
Essential Questions / Content Area: Why do we use MLA formatting in our writing?

Students Will Understand: Students Will Be Able To:

MLA Formatting Practice writing data with MLA

formatting by completing practice
problems

ASSESSMENT

Formative Assessment: Writing Data Practice Sheet

Summative Assessment: N/A
Reflection: Why do we use MLA formatting in our writing?

LEARNING PLAN

Differentiation

Opening:
Students will have 25 minutes of sustained
silent reading then a five-minute break.
Review: Working in small groups allows the students to
Students will participate in a group 1. Generate the information and 2. Use their
discussion to review what they have learned peers as a resource in their learning.
about data.

Direct Instruction:
Students will take notes while the teacher
presents the MLA Formatting PPT.

Materials:
PPT
Wall Posters
Lined piece of Paper

Small Group Practice: Students will work in small groups as a way for
Students will work with their groups to read students to work together and aide each other in
and pull quotes out of an article that this practice set.
support a given argument.

Materials:
Article
Worksheet

Independent Practice: The students have already done 3 of these lists

Students will work individually to practice the exact same way.
their next vocab list. They must write each
word 5 times and write a sentence using the
word correctly.

Materials:
Unit 4 Vocab List