Lesson: “Theme for English B”

Lesson Objective(s) Students will engage in pre-reading activities to help develop

background knowledge before reading a new text.
Students will highlight and annotate the text to analyze how the
author develops theme and tone.

Standards CCSS.ELA-READING.LITERATURE.9-10.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the
course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details;
provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-READING.LITERATURE.9-10.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including
figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices
on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a
formal or informal tone).

Materials Needed HMH Into Literature Grade 9 textbook, highlighters, pen/pencil

Note:
Time Learning Task Methods or Procedures
0:00- SAT Question of the day, - Students will attempt the SAT prep
3:00 attendance question of the day
- Teacher will explain the reasoning
for correct answer and students will
copy into their writers notebooks
- Teacher takes attendance
4:00- Music Monday - Teacher plays a song for the class
8:00 and students will volunteer to
identify the literary
device/figurative language within it
9:00- Schoology Agenda - Teacher will display the Schoology
11:00 agenda for the week and go over it
with the class
12:00- Engage Your Brain activities - Students will have time to
22:00 independently complete the Engage
Your Brain pre-reading activities in
their textbooks
- Teacher will take volunteers to
share answers with class and
discuss
23:00- Pre-reading background info - Teacher will go over the background
28:00 of the genre of the text, the author,
and the information on how to
analyze the theme and tone within
the text as we read (from textbook
as well)
29:00- Read the text - Class will follow along reading
44:00 “Theme for English B” in their
textbooks as the audio is played
aloud
- Teacher will pause the reading for
the annotation prompts in the
margins and read over them for the
class
- Students will follow along
highlighting and annotating
45:00- Assessment Practice questions - Students will mark their answers to
50:00 the multiple choice questions
- Go over answers as a class
Remain Work on Analyze the Text - If time permits, students can start
ing questions working on the Analyze the Text
time short answer questions