ST Sleepy Hollow Lesson Thursday

Lesson Plan for Thursday, February 21: English 301, 2nd hour and 6th hour
Lesson Objective/s: Students will hone their ability to find specific details from the text, make inferences about their significance within the storys larger themes, and use these details to support their analysis. They will also begin to develop their skills at comparing and contrasting two versions of Sleepy Hollow, specifically thinking about the significance behind any similarities and differences. State Standard/s: CC.11-12.R.I.3 Key Ideas and Details: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text. CC.11-12.R.L.3 Key Ideas and Details: Analyze the impact of the authors choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). CC.11-12.SL.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 1112 topics, texts, and issues, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. ELD Standard/s: Reading comprehension, thematic analysis, compare/contrast. Formative Assessment/s: Students will turn in their answers to their individual question. Students compare/contrast charts will be noted in each class for the duration of the movie, and they will be monitored for participation in class discussions. Summative Assessment/s: Students will write a two-page, double-spaced, typed essay comparing and contrasting Irvings Sleepy Hollow and Burtons movie adaptation. Instructor: __________Alexandra Bell__________________ Topic: ________Sleepy Hollow_____________ Subject: ____English_______ Check box if part of a larger unit: _X_ Where does the lesson fit in: Begin __ Middle __ End _X_ Duration of Lesson: ________50 minutes___________ Grade__11___ Other adult involved in instruction: (Check appropriate) Paraeducator ____ co-teacher_______ volunteer _____
LESSON PLAN & PROCEDURES

Lesson Elements
Lesson Introduction (connect & build background knowledge) Identify Formative Assessment as it occurs in the lesson Time What are the students doing? What is other adult doing? Check for Understanding Materials
1. Prepare to play one of the songs from the students annotation assignment. 2. Put up the Vitamin on the projector. 3. Take attendance. 4. Give students the trivia question. 5. Go over the Vitamin. 6. Collect vocabulary sentences.
5 mins
Coming into class and beginning to write down the Vitamin and answer the trivia question.
Observing
Music Vitamin Trivia Question
Lesson Body Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
1. Have students present their information to the class from yesterday (answers to one of 20 questions see below lesson plan). Connect the ability to find specific details in Sleepy Hollow to ACT prep strategies. 2. Sum up the story as a whole. What were students reactions to it? Do they like the ending? 3. Collaborate on guided response question give students a few minutes to add to/edit their response. Pass them in. 4. Give students who are not watching the movie their alternative assignment and have them work in the library (let librarian know they are coming ahead of time). Let them know that they should come back in the last five minutes of class to talk with me about how they feel and ask any questions they may have. 1. Pass out Compare/Contrast Worksheet for movie (or do this Thursday). 2. Brainstorm what they expect the movie to be like (knowledge of Tim Burton, etc)/what they should be looking for as we watch. Write these elements on the chalkboard next to the projection screen. 1. Begin watching Sleepy Hollow.
2030 mins
Presenting their answers to one of twenty questions. Participating in a class discussion. Finishing and turning in their responses.
Observing
Sleepy Hollow 20 Qs and Answers Sleepy Hollow Worksheet
5 mins
Discussing what Observing they will look for in the movie.
Compare/ Contrast Worksheet
1015 mins
Watching the movie and filling out their compare/contra
Observing
Sleepy Hollow movie
Lesson Closing
1. Pause the movie with 2-3 minutes left in class and ask for student reactions. Can they already see any differences between the movie and the short story? What are some similarities? Try to fill in at least 1-2 boxes on the compare/contrast sheet.
2-3 mins
st sheet. Writing down observations, discussing.
Observing
Questions for students to answer (one question per student): 1. The author, Washington Irving says, When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete. What does the rest of that paragraph on page 18 tell us about why Ichabod liked Katrina? 2. What approach does Brom Bones (Brom Van Brunt) want to take when he discovers Ichabod is interested in Katrina? Why cant he do that? 3. What are two things Brom Bones does to get back at Ichabod for trying to steal Katrina? 4. Ichabod takes great care in his appearance as he gets ready for the party at Baltus Van Tassels. What is funny about the horse he is riding as he starts off like a knight in quest of adventures? 5. How is Brom Bones horse, Daredevil, similar to him in its appearance and actions? 6. What explanation is given for why there are more ghost stories in a long-settled village? 7. What story is told about Brouwers encounter with the headless horseman? 8. What story does Brom Bones tell about his encounter with the headless horseman? 9. What mood is Ichabod in when he leaves Katrinas house that night? What evidence is there of his mood? What speculation does the author make as to what happened? 10. What logical explanation is there for three of the things Ichabod sees or hears when he is near the old, large tree? 11. What happens when Ichabod tries to get across the bridge? 12. When Ichabod sees something huge and black by the brook, why doesnt he turn and run away? What two things does he do instead? 13. What happens when Ichabod slows down or speeds up in an attempt to get away from the dark horse and its rider? What does Ichabod see that makes him so terrified that he sends his horse into full flight? 14. Instead of following the road to Sleepy Hollow, where does Gunpowder go? What makes it even harder for Ichabod to hold onto his run-away horse? 15. What four traces of the chase do the searchers find the next day? 16. When news of Ichabod is reported years later, what do we learn about why he left? 17. What makes it seem that Brom Bones knew something about what happened that night? 18. What did the people of the town believe about what happened that night? 19. What evidence is there that Ichabod Crane had an active imagination? 20. What role do Katrinas parents play in her life? What is her fathers attitude toward his wealth? What is his attitude toward his daughter? What is
Katrinas mothers attitude toward her?

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Lesson Plan for Thursday, February 21: English 301, 2nd hour and 6th hour

LESSON PLAN & PROCEDURES

Music Vitamin Trivia Question

Lesson Body Direct Instruction

Sleepy Hollow 20 Qs and Answers Sleepy Hollow Worksheet

Discussing what Observing they will look for in the movie.

Compare/ Contrast Worksheet

Watching the movie and filling out their compare/contra

Sleepy Hollow movie

st sheet. Writing down observations, discussing.

Katrinas mothers attitude toward her?

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