R&J 1D Mar 29 Day 2

Lesson Plan

Specific expectations Learning intentions Success criteria Instructional and/or learning strategies Assessment tools

Strand: Oral Comm Today I will... I will be successful when... Hook (20 minutes) Description

1.2 Active Listening Check my knowledge of I understand the concepts Shakespeare Trivia (15 minutes) Shakespeare Trivia
2.5 Vocal Strategies the previous day’s lesson presented in the Shakespeare trivia Pear Deck interactive trivia presentation that ✔ For ✔ Teacher/Student
checks for student’s knowledge of the previous
3.1 Metacognition Learn about the language I know about how English has day Choral Reading
of Shakespeare’s day changed since Shakespeare’s time Student Presented Song (5 min) ✔ For ✔ Teacher

Learn about the Prologue I understand what a Prologue is One student will present a song that they found
of R&J and I know what R&J’s Prologue which relates to the themes of Romeo and Juliet Close Reading Translation
says ✔ For ✔ Teacher
Guiding Question
Strand: Reading What kind of language Development (40 minutes)
did Shakespeare speak,
1.2 Reading and how is it connected Prologue Investigation (10 minutes)
Comprehension Strategies to the version of English Read the Prologue together
that we speak today? Class discussion: get a feel for the language

1.3 Understanding of Discuss language change and “Elizabethan

Content
English”
2.3 Elements of Style
Middle English (30 min)

Learn what “Middle English” and “Old English”

mean
Look at intro to Beowulf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/
beowulf-old-english-version
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=QT5nja2Wy28

Look at Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and

watch video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=nMsp8xHkRnA
Text:
https://web.stanford.edu/~hakuta/Courses/Ed388
%20Website/Lecture_Slides/Winter2008/
Jan17handout.pdf

(Point out the actor’s hands shaking as a

metacognitive moment about anxiety and acting)

Teacher recites Prologue from memory

Do a choral reading of the first four lines, build

towards students memorizing the first four lines
Return to Prologue (15 minutes)

Choral Reading (3 minutes)

Read the Prologue together
Close Reading Translation (12 min)

Build a translation of the first lines of the

Prologue as a class