1. Lesson Cycle
Planning Lessons

2. Where do I start?

3. 1. How do I get to know who my students are?
Consider different learning styles
Consider interests
Consider readiness
prior knowledge
academic history
standardized achievement scores

4. 2. What is a worthwhile goal for my curriculum?
Students will be able to read.
(Too broad?)

5. 2. What is a worthwhile goal for my curriculum?
Students will be able
To identify
To analyze
To evaluate
(Better?)

6. 2. What is a worthwhile goal for my curriculum?
Students will be able to identify author’s purpose.
To inform
To compare/contrast
To persuade …
(OK!)

7. 3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning?
Expose students to a variety of nontraditional readings
Political cartoon (to ridicule)
Music selection from a film soundtrack (to create suspense)
Advertisement (to persuade)

8. 3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning?
Expose students to a variety of traditional readings
A sentence
A paragraph
A short excerpt

9. 3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning?
Expose students to a variety of traditional readings
An essay
A short story
A poem
A book (summer reading?)

10. In teaching author’s purpose, we will also be discussing other rhetorical features (audience, appeals, devices, structure, tone…)

11. Because nothing is taught in isolation, all learning is recursive.

12. 3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning?
Expose students to a variety of readings
Model analysis for students
Have students participate in class discussion of analysis (Socratic Seminar?)
Have students analyze a selection in a small group or in pairs (Charts on butcher paper?)

13. Gather Material for Strategies
Notes
Books
Equipment
Supplies
Media
Machines

14. 4. How will I assess/evaluate that my students have achieved that goal?

15. Assessment/Evaluation
Ask students to read a new selection (READ)
Ask students to identify the author’s purpose (Identify)
Ask students to cite specific evidence to support author’s purpose (Analyze)
Ask students to evaluate the evidence they have chosen (Evaluate)

16. Students should tell/show what they learned.

17. 5. How will I reflect on the effectiveness of my lesson?
Complete this item after receiving students’ task
Review what students have produced
Then what?

18. 6. Upon reflection, what are the next steps?
Complete this item after receiving and reviewing students’ task.
Remediation or re-teaching?
Logical progression?
Next goal?

19. Teaching is reflective and recursive.

20. Dawg, You are an exemplary teacher.