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Standard(s):
What I will Teach: Today we will be learning about being open and seeing things from different
character’s perspectives
Goal for Students: My goal is that students will be able to pick out and interpret different
perspectives from their books.
Example: I noticed that Elizabeth had everything on her desk and is waiting for my next direction. If
you are wondering what to do you should glance at her.
Example: Thanks for writing this down. Thanks for staying with me.
Example: Now, we are moving into independent work time. This means it looks, feels, and sounds
a certain way.
Generate Interest/Hook the Learners: Harry potter youtube video (at the beginning)
Access Prior Knowledge in Learners: I will be accessing their prior knowledge through
connecting perspective into our point of view lessons we have learned previously! We did this
lesson with the first Harry Potter book whereas now we are on the second.
Review for Learners: I will ask the question: Who knows what another word is that we could use
for perspective?
Introduction (cont.): Creating Excitement and Focus for the Lesson Target
Task Analysis: Accommodations and Differentiation:
● What information do the learners need? ● Remediation/intervention
● How is the lesson scaffolded? ● Extension/enrichment
Thinking Levels (questions to engage thinking): ● Learning styles
● Remembering Methods, Materials and Technology:
● Understanding ● Remediation/Intervention
● Applying ● Extension/Enrichment
● Analyzing ● Learning Styles
● Evaluation
● Creating
Task Analysis:
Differentiation
Content: I will be using a variety of modes from visual, written, and spoken examples of the
content.
Process: Students are able to choose the way they learn with their groups. They can choose to
read aloud together, read silently and then discuss.
Product: The student able to share their final product verbally or written down as evidence of their
learning.
Environment: Student is free to choose different learning spots around the classroom as well as
different places to read with their partners around the classroom.
Challenge: Students who need a challenge can read at a faster pace with their partner and meet
their partner’s page number to describe the job. Students will be able to focus on the majority of
characters in their novel and not just one or two. They can also expand their thinking to other
stamina books they are reading.
Technology:
- Youtube clip
Modeling (“I Do”)
How will you give visual and verbal input?
How can you make the content clear and the task steps explicit?
I DO:
-Teacher presents learning intention and sets up video for students to analyze.
-Teacher plays video until after Ron tries to curse
- sets students up for using t-chart
WE DO: As a class: watch harry potter and determine the perspectives of the characters.
Using a t-chart: (character/sees/hears/feels) Do for Draco, Harry, Ron, Hermione. The class
determines and discusses the perspectives of each character. Students complete call and
response on the partnership goals.
You Do: students spend 10-15 minutes in their book clubs doing this with their partners.
Closure
How will the learning target(s) and “I can” statements be reviewed/revisited?
How will students be involved in the closure?
What connections to future learning will occur?
Connections to Future Learning: This connects to their future lessons within the historical book
club unit but also when they are watching and analyzing stories.
Biggest Take-Away for Learners Today: thinking about and considering other perspectives within
a story.
How will you know they know it? If students are able to give up examples of evidence of their
learning after working in partnerships.
Assessment
What evidence supports that the objective(s) were met?
What do my students know, understand or are able to do after this lesson?
What formative assessments will be used to inform future instruction?
Evidence of Learning: I will know by assessing their written responses using the t-chart to analyze
their book club books. I will also be circulating and joining groups to check progress.
What do students know, understand, or can do now?
Reflection
What evidence do you have that the objective(s) or learning target(s) were met?
Using your assessment data how will you change the lesson or instruction for the next time?
How well did the students perform/respond?
Were all my students engaged?
How was my timing?
How many students struggled? What can you do to help those students?
For how many students was the content too easy? How can you extend the learning for them?
What did everyone know? What did no one know? Were there any surprises?
The evidence of their learning showed in their whole group sharing and answers to my
questions about what would happen if that perspective was taken out of the story. Most
students in my fist to five put up a three or higher showing me that they understood that
characters have different perspectives. My students responded to this lesson very well, they
were engaged in analyzing the video clip and sharing it with the whole group. The vast
majority of the groups had one person share out providing evidence of their learning. My
timing was okay, typically a reading lesson runs shorter than this but the conversation about
the clip expanded our time. However, with this lesson, I think that time spent was very
helpful to students. This content seems to match exactly where my students were, my high
flyers were able to continue to analyze all their characters, whereas the low flyer complete
one or two of their characters. By the end of the lesson, students seem to have a decent
understanding of what each character brings to a book, and if we didn’t have the character
then the book would not be the same. I was surprised by one of my student’s explanations
that Harry made all the other characters better. He said, “the good in Harry brings out the
good in them,” I thought it was a perfect way to say it and I was surprised and happy by their
thinking.
Small Goal:
- Continuing to focus on engagement with students, and giving control during those
activities to foster an organic learning environment