Kimberley Thacker

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Shakespeare

• Kimberley Thacker

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Analyze Learners

• Average learners for ninth grade English class
• Unit incorporates diversity by examining
  Elizabethan era
• Reading and comprehension skills will be examined
  and improved upon classroom readings and
  discussions

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State Objectives

• Reading Objectives
• RLA.9.1.1 identify historical, cultural and
  biographical
  influences of
  literary works
• RLA.9.1.4 use various reading skills for
  literary experience, information and/or
  performing a task (e.g., skimming scanning note
  taking SQ3R)
• RLA.9.1.5 locate specific information in text
  (e.g., main and supporting ideas specific facts
  statistics definition)
• RLA.9.1.8 recognize literary devices (e.g.,
  personification symbolism imagery metaphor
  simile humor rhythm rhyme meter
  alliteration assonance)

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Objectives Contd

• Writing Objectives
• RLA.9.2.6 use a clear, logical progression of
  ideas (e.g., spatial order in a descriptive
  essay, chronological order in a process essay) to
  develop a composition that is focused and
  coherent
• RLA.9.2.7 use different transitional devices
  (e.g., introductory and transitional
  phrases/conjunctions) between paragraphs
• RLA.9.2.9 use appropriate and precise word
  choice to develop a composition
• RLA.9.2.12 extend note-taking skills to process
  and organize information
• RLA.9.2.17 recognize the parts of speech within
  a sentence

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Objectives Contd

• Listening and Viewing Objectives
• 10. RLA.9.3.4 listen to identify the purpose,
  make predictions, distinguish fact from
  opinion and construct meaning from discussion,
  speech or media

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Select Methods, Media, Material

• Character worksheets
• Movie William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet
• Literary Devices worksheet
• PowerPoint notes

• Computers
• TV with VHS
• Projection screen/Smart Board
• Ready to Use Activities for Teaching Romeo
  Juliet by John Wilson Swope

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Websites

• www.sasinschool.com
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burbage
• http//www.funbrain.com/wacky/index.html
• 4. http//www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/
  shakespeare/ Literary.Terms.2.html

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Utilize Media and Materials

• My lesson will take ten days to complete.
• The following is an outline of each day.

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Day 1

• Students will take notes from a PowerPoint
  presentation.
• Topics will include Shakespeares life,
  information on Richard Burbage, Shakespeares
  works, the Elizabethan time period, and
  Shakespeares stage.

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Day 2

• Literary Devices worksheet handed out and
  explained.
• Begin reading Romeo and Juliet through the first
  act and discuss characters and events to lessen
  confusion about the beginning of the story.
• If time allows, students will be permitted to
  work on their worksheets.

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Day 3

• Finish reading and discussing act 1.
• Character Analysis worksheet on either Romeo or
  Juliet.
• Character Analysis worksheets to be finished as
  homework and they will have to be handed in the
  next day.
• Students will be reminded to find examples of
  each type of literary device for their worksheet.

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Day 4

• Character Analysis worksheets will be taken up.
• We will read through the second act and start on
  the third.
• Discuss and analyze what is happening thus far in
  the play.
• Students will be reminded to find examples of
  each type of literary device for their worksheet.
  

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Day 5

• Finish reading through acts 3 and 4.
• Discuss and analyze new changes and events and
  how the characters have been affected.
• Students will be reminded to find examples of
  each type of literary device for their worksheet.

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Day 6

• Finish reading the story and discuss students
  thoughts, questions, and opinions of the play.
• Review transitions and transitional phrases.
• For homework students will write a summary of the
  play using the events they found to be crucial to
  the story.
• Students will be reminded to find examples of
  each type of literary device for their worksheet.

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Day 7

• Students will edit and revise each others
  essays, type them, and complete a Parts of Speech
  exercise.
• For homework students will come up with five
  different, more appropriate word choices for each
  part of speech.
• Students will be reminded to complete their
  literary device worksheets that are to be handed
  in the following day.

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Day 8

• Test will be given.
• Students will turn in their parts of speech
  stories, their Romeo and Juliet essays, and their
  Literary Devices worksheet.
• Students will begin watching William
  Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet.

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Day 9

• Students will continue watching movie.

Day 10

• Students will finish the movie, receive their
  graded tests, and worksheets.
• If time permits, they will also receive their
  graded essays and an update on their class
  progress.

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Require Learner Participation

• Visual learners PowerPoint presentation,
  in-class discussions, worksheets, and the video.
• Auditory learners verbally going over slides,
  and reading aloud and hearing their classmates
  read aloud.
• Kinesthetic learners using the internet site for
  finding definitions but more importantly the
  parts of speech exercise where the activity
  involves movement through use of the mouse.

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Evaluate Revise

• Students final grades will comprise of their
  test scores, completion and correctness of their
  Literary Devices worksheets, Character Analysis
  worksheets, Parts of Speech stories with
  alternate word choices, and their essays.