Lesson Plans for 4/20

Course/ Subject/Unit: Pre Ap Literature/Composition

Date of Instruction: 04/20/23

ELAGSE9-10W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) 

ELAGSE9-10W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.) 

ELAGSE9-10W6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.  Research to Build and Present Know

Learning Target:

1. review of an article from a current publication.

2. Write our own articles on the world of poetry publication 

Success Criteria:

1. Write a review of a current article from a modern publication 

2. Make a list of what modern articles communicate and how they draw in readers

3. Begin work on our own assigned articles using prompts and a roll of the dice. 

Activities & Assignments

Latin Root

Class will begin by breaking into magazine groups. Each group will be given a random article of a current event. The groups will evaluate these articles for specific criteria. (Timeliness, interest, detail, brevity, subject). Each of these will be defined before the groups begin rating them. Each group will share their findings. 

The groups will then be given a list of numbered prompts where the entries are potential topics for our poetry magazines. Each member of the group will be presented with Dice to roll. The member’s rolls will be their topic for the magazine. NO REPEATS. The teacher will then present a rubric for the writing assignment. 

Groups will be given time to start their writing projects.