Mrs. Oehler’s Lesson Plans for the Week of January 26-30, 2009
Day	Objectives	Procedures	Differentiation	Assessment
Monday	FLA (indicators for the unit): Apply reading comprehension strategies, including making predictions, comparing and contrasting, recalling and summarizing, and making inferences and drawing conclusions; Answer literal, inferential, evaluative, and synthesizing questions to demonstrate comprehension; Monitor own comprehension; Identify and explain the author’s use of direct and indirect characterization, and ways in which characters reveal traits about themselves; Analyze the influence of setting in relation to other literary elements; Interpret universal themes; Explain how authors use symbols to create broader meanings; Explain how foreshadowing and flashback are used to shape plot in a literary text.	Collect homework from Friday Discuss reading from weekend Continue reading pages 35-48	Mrs. Oehler will provide accommodations according to necessary IEP or 504 documentation.	Students will be observed for comprehension and participation. Occasional reading quizzes and activities will be collected throughout the unit. There will be a comprehensive reading test at the end of the unit
	SLA – (indicators for the unit) Interpret universal themes across different works by the same author or by different authors; analyze how an author’s choice of genre affects the expression of a theme or topic; analyze the author’s use of point of view, mood and tone; explain how authors use symbols to create broader meanings; describe the effect of using sound devices in literary texts;	Review Imagery (hand back quiz from Friday) Review Figurative Language Read “Man in the Moon” by Billy Collins Small group work to identify figurative language in poetry		Students will be observed for comprehension and participation.
Tuesday	See Monday	Small group work to review reading so far – “Dramatic Tableaux” Continue reading pgs. 48-63		Reading quiz on Thursday over beginning of the book.
	SLA – See Monday	Continue studying figurative language and the Japanese Tanka Homework: write a Tanka		Students will be observed for comprehension and participation.
Wednesday	FLA: See Monday	Reading quiz over reading so far Continue reading pgs 63-75		Students will be observed for comprehension and participation. Occasional reading quizzes and activities will be collected throughout the unit. There will be a comprehensive reading test at the end of the unit
	No Sophomore Language Arts for MCCC
Thursday	FLA – See Monday	Continue reading F451 (pg. 75-91) Discuss reading guide questions Review reading quiz from Wednesday		Students will be observed for comprehension and participation. Occasional reading quizzes and activities will be collected throughout the unit. There will be a comprehensive reading test at the end of the unit: May 13^th
	SLA – see Monday	Share homework of Tanka Introduce sound devices		Students will be observed for comprehension and participation.
Friday	FLA – See Monday	Continue reading F451. Students should read to page 110 by Monday. Homework due Monday: select a passage in the reading. (a) illustrate it; (b) make connections; (c) identify and describe its significance.		Students will be observed for comprehension and participation. Occasional reading quizzes and activities will be collected throughout the unit. There will be a comprehensive reading test at the end of the unit: May 13^th
	SLA – See Monday	Continue discussing Sound Devices (with emphasis on mood and tone)		Students will be observed for participation and comprehension.