Activity Plan Template

General Information
Lesson Title: “A Christmas Carol” - Stave IV
Subject(s): Language Arts
Grade/Level/Setting: 7/Honors/Classroom
Prerequisite Skills/Prior Knowledge:
What do your students already know or what do they need to know about the selected topic to successfully participate
in the lesson?
Read Staves 1-4, Figurative Language, Victorian England, Annotation

Standards and Objectives

State/National Academic Standard(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.7
Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version,
analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus
and angles in a film).
Learning Objective(s):
Identify what students will accomplish by the end of the lesson; needs to align with the state or Common Core State
Standards and needs to be measurable (condition, behavior, and criterion).
After watching a film adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” students will be able to write down five instances
where the film and story are similar and/or different 80% accuracy.
Materials Technology
What materials will the teacher and the students need in order How will you use technology to enhance teaching and
to complete the lesson? learning? (Optional: Use the SAMR model to explain the
Pencil, highlighter, “A Christmas Carol” folder, technology integration strategies you plan to use.)
annotation and job guide Laptop, projector, Google Slides, Amazon Prime

Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks

Anticipatory Set:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
●Desks arranged by pre-assigned ●Students will walk into the
group colors. classroom, find their groups, get out
●Project warm-up at the front of the their materials, and complete the
classroom. warm-up.
○Warm-up: Where did the Ghost
of Christmas Future take
Scrooge? List all six places.
●Discuss students’ answers to the
warm-up.
Presentation Procedures for New Information and/or Modeling:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
●State lesson objective and agenda
 for the day.
Guided Practice:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
●Play an excerpt from two film ●Students will take notes on the
adaptations of “A Christmas Carol.” similarities and differences while
(1951 version and Jim Carrey) watching the excerpts.
Making sure to ask questions after
each excerpt about what was
different or the same.
Independent Student Practice:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
●Project timer and visual of the ●Students will get into groups to
direction the jobs rotate for group discuss what they learned while
discussions with extra questions for reading Stave IV and the similarities
the students to ask if there is extra and differences from the films.
time.
Culminating or Closing Procedure/Activity:
Activity Description/Teacher Student Actions
●Restate lesson objective and get ●State whether or not we were able to
students' opinions on whether or meet the lesson objective.
not they think we were able to
meet the objective. Explain what
we will be doing for the next class.

Differentiated Instruction
Consider how to accommodate for the needs of each type of student. Be sure that you provide content specific
accommodations that help to meet a variety of learning needs.
Gifted and Talented:
Give students the option to modify their job for the Stave with the condition that the assignments
requirements are still present.
ELL:
Give a list of the more difficult/older language used in the passage so these students can focus their
time on the language that would already be new.
Students with Other Special Needs:
Visual reminder of what the jobs are and the direction they move. Visual timer at the front of the class
during group discussion.
Assessment
Formative
Describe how you will monitor, support, and extend student thinking.
Students will be assessed through questions like “What similarities and or differences were you able to
find in the film compared to the story?”
Summative
(Quizzes, Tests, products)
Students will be assessed through the notes they will be taking in their folders to use for their final
projects.