Lesson Plan : The Great Gatsby ch. 4
Teacher Name: | Ms. Luck/ Mollie Clarke |
Grade: | Grade 11-12 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | The Great Gatsby chapter 4 |
Content: | Movie Quotes Plot Symbols Motifs Study questions |
Goals: | To show the students characterization with the movie Have students work together in groups to generate answers Show students how to find answers |
Objectives: | Get students to work together Stay focused on task Get students to problem solve together Make sure they get their work done |
Materials: | The Great Gatsby- movie Worksheet packet |
Introduction: | Question and answer on what symbols and motifs are Recount the answers they already have for previous chapters Ask them what they like/dislike so far in the book |
Development: | Ask them what trends they have found so far Ask them to give examples Tell them what I found back when I read the book |
Practice: | After watching the movie clip they needed to find the answers to the prompts in the book working together. I went around to make sure they were on task |
Accommodations: | Helping them find the right page number Explaining difficult words and concepts in the book |
Checking For Understanding: | Asking students to explain what they found and how it connects to the book. If some students did not get the answers, have the students who did tell them/ show them how they did it |
Closure: | Make sure that there is actual writing on their packets Make sure they understand how to find motifs Have them list the concepts they still do not get |
Evaluation: | See if there were questions the students repeatedly left blank or collectively did not understand. Evauluate if group work works better than individual work |
Teacher Reflections: | This is the lesson plan and the format I was given to teach. It was not effective in the long run. For some students it worked better but for most they just goofed off. I would have liked to divide the class in half and made it into a competition instead of having eight smaller groups. There was just not enough to stimulate the students and they let me know it. Had I had enough time to pre prepare things could have been different. The only good thing was that I could see which students worked better in groups and which did not. I get get some of the students who were doing well to teach their fellow students how they got the answers, the peer teaching worked more effectively than the group work. |
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