Lesson Plan : Conflict/ Precise Verbs
Teacher Name: | Mrs. Fischer |
Grade: | Grade 9-10 |
Subject: | Literature Activities |
Topic: | External and Internal conflict in short stories. Predicting the outcome of a short story. Using precise verbs to improve writing. |
Content: | CO1a, CO1b, CO4a, CO6a,CO6b |
Goals: | Students will learn that the plot of a short story is centered around internal and external conflicts of the characters. Students will read the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" and chart the internal/external conflicts of the main characters. Students will practice their active reading strategies and learn to predict outcomes as they are reading and evaluate how close their predictions were to the actual outcomes. Students will recognize weak verbs and replace them with more precise verbs to strenghten their writing. Students will develop a better understanding of verbs and how to choose more precise verbs to strengthen their writing. |
Objectives: | Students will recognize internal and external conflicts in a short story. Students will incorporate the use of strong verbs to improve their writing. |
Materials: | Short story handout "The Most Dangerous Game." Internal/External character chart hand out/ Precise Verbs hand out. |
Introduction: | So far we learned that there are five elements of short stories:setting,plot,characters, conflict, and theme. Last week we learned how to diagram the plot of the short story "The Necklace" and how the cause and effect of certain events move the plot forward. Today we are going to learn about Conflict and how the internal and/or external conflicts of the characters can help us predict the outcome of a story. To strengthen our writing it is important that we choose more precise verbs. We will learn to recognize weak verbs and replace them with stronger ones. |
Development: | We will discuss examples of internal/external conflicts and how they might relate to a character in a story which they are all familiar---Snow White, Star Wars etc. |
Practice: | Students will use handouts to practice both the internal/external conflict. Students will use handout to practice using more precise verbs. |
Accommodations: | Guided practice will be given to those behind in reading development. |
Checking For Understanding: | Students will discuss the story using critical thinking questions. |
Closure: | Ask students to to tell you what they learned today. |
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