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Lesson Date: March 9, 2018 Lesson Length: 35 min Grade/Age: 7th Grade
Learning Objectives & Content Standard Alignment - Selects, creates, and sequences learning
experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals
based on content standards.
Learning Objective(s) Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.5
Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g.,
soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning
Assessment - Uses assessment flexibly to expand and deepen understanding of learner performance
and determines best supports for continued learner growth.
Assessment Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands expertise in
reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and individual learner
needs.
Materials, Resources, and / or Technology Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance tasks
by using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make learning
Rev 8/17
accessible to all learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
Teaching and Learning Sequence Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
Activity Length of Time Explanation
Introduction 2 min Introduce lesson - Vocab
and put vocab - “crag”, “ringed”, “azure”,
on the board. “wrinkled”
Read “The 7 min Discuss need to - “What is the rhyme scheme of
Eagle” know vocab. The Eagle”
Read The Eagle - Go line by line talking about
twice; visualize imagery
imagery in mind - “What do you notice at first
and discuss as a about this poem?” (Drum
class. Use Dream Girl)
projector. - Vocab for DDG: “conga drums”,
Read “Drum 20 min Read Drum “bongo drums”, “timbales”
Dream Girl” Dream Girl, tell
students that
they can choose
a stanza to
illustrate (can
be in comic
form); they
must highlight
the specific
imagery that
they are
choosing to add
in their
illustration.
Wrap Up 2 min Students will
have the
weekend to
finish their
illustrations.
Reflection
I think this lesson went well. Students enjoyed the first part reading “The Eagle” and
visualizing what they read. Students also enjoyed drawing the illustration. I think
this was a way to get students thinking creatively about imagery.
Some students didn’t take the time I wanted them to take so I had a few complaints
about how much detail I asked from them. I would not accept anything that was not
detailed or not colored.