Dante Yacobucci

Professor Pamela K. Coke

EDUC 463
10 April 2017

Standards-Based Lesson Plan Template

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Lesson Title and Duration Elements of a Short Story: 90 Minutes
Learner Outcomes / Learning Target: I can identify the narrative arc of
Objectives (Write on the board so short stories by analyzing the structure of a
students and visitors are aware of student narrative text.
learning outcome)
Success Criteria: I identify different major scenes
in a story story according to narrative arc.
Standards (Colorado Academic 9.2.1.c. Analyze how an authors choices
Standards or other standards) concerning how to structure a text, order events
within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time
(e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as
mystery, tension, or surprise. (CCSS: RL.9-10.5)
Materials SMART Board to display video
Needed Paper for notes/Skeleton Notes
Article Handout
Story Arc Worksheet
Differentiated Learning Needs Skeleton notes if
they do not want
to take regular
notes.
Anticipatory Set activities that help Writers Notebook: Write about a moment in your
focus students on the lesson of the day life when you went on a quest. What made you go
(the hook) on that quest and what did you gain from it?
Dante Yacobucci
Professor Pamela K. Coke
EDUC 463
10 April 2017

Teaching the Lesson Attendance (5 min)

WNB (10 min)
Modeling how will you WNB Discussion (5 min)
demonstrate the skill or Flocabulary Video and Notes (5 min)
competency?
Video Skeleton Notes: Students will watch Five
Instructional Strategies Things (Elements of a Short Story) by Flocabulary
how will you deliver the lesson?
and take notes on a skeleton notes worksheet.
Check for Understanding
This is essentially an outline that is missing the
how will you ensure the skill or crucial piece of information, but contains basic
competency is understood by the headings. This will be a form of note taking
students? scaffolding for those who need to develop note
taking skills. This will also help introduce
elements of narration in a fun and non-
intimidating way.

Read Ali Hales How to Structure a Story: The

Eight-Point Arc. Take notes on the main points of
the article. (15 min)
Differentiated Learning Needs Skeleton Notes
Video (Visual and
kinesthetic
learners)
Dante Yacobucci
Professor Pamela K. Coke
EDUC 463
10 April 2017

Guided Practice / I will display the main elements of narrative story

Monitoring an activity directly
supervised by the instructor that allows
students to demonstrate grasp of new
learning. Instructor moves around the
room determining the level of mastery
and providing individual remediation as
needed.
on the board in the form of a story arc. I will draw
the arc itself and label its components, providing
examples using Cinderella as an example.
Students will be able to ask me questions as I go,
to prepare them for the next activity. I will explain
that this is not the only arc used, but it will be the
one they will practice (10 min).

I will hand out story arc worksheets that have

areas to fill in at each point in the arc. Students
will get into table groups (around 4 students per
table) and brainstorm ideas to apply to this arc.
They can use any example they want, as long as
it is school appropriate and they can explain their
ideas. (TV shows, comics, stories, etc.) Then, as
a group, they will attempt to apply their example
to their worksheet. I will make sure to help them if
they need it and check to see if their answers
match the arc. They will keep their worksheets
after I check them to use as a reference later in
the unit (20 min).
Differentiated Chart
Learning Needs

Closure Statements or actions made I will then have a group volunteer to put their
by the instructor that help students make example on the doc cam and explain their
sense out of what has just been taught, to answers. If anyone as questions, they can ask the
help form a coherent picture, to eliminate
confusion and frustration, and to reinforce group that is presented how they made their
major points to be learned. choices or how they might apply it to another
story (10 min).
Independent In the last few minutes of class, I will ask students
Practice a question or problem for to write a reflection of what weve learned today
students to ponder on their own or in by in their writers notebook. They will respond to
small groups or pairs. The aim is to the question What would you like to read a story
reinforce and extend the learning beyond
the lesson and ideally into real world about? What would you like to write a story
settings. This may be a homework about? How would you use some of the story arc
assignment. concepts weve learned today? Try to come up
with at least 2 points in the arc (10 min).
Dante Yacobucci
Professor Pamela K. Coke
EDUC 463
10 April 2017

Differentiated Learning Needs Students

responses are
not graded on
grammar. They
are to scaffold
their writing.
Summarize, The student reflection is seen above. My
Evaluate & Reflect after teaching reflection will be based on the responses I read in
the lesson, ask students to reflect on their their interactive notebooks, as well as their arc
learning. Instructors can also reflect on worksheets. If students had a hard time
the lesson, its success, and how it can be
improved. understanding this concept, we will make next
class review more extensive.