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Teacher Candidate:
Quindolyn Chalmers
Mentor Teacher:
Jennifer Townes
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
Students will be able to identify Shakespeare with 90% accuracy.
Students will be able to describe literature with 90% accuracy.
Students will be able to produce and evaluate aspects from Shakespeare with 75% accuracy.
STANDARDS ADDRESSED:
RL.9-10.3. Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course
of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
RL.9-10.10. By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 910 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
RL.9-10.5. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots),
and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and
media.
Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying
where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.
MATERIALS: .
Computers/ tablets
Internet
Paper and Pencils
Headphones
Microsoft PowerPoint
https://www.google.com/search?
q=romeo+and+juliet+shakespeare&oq=romeo+and+&aqs=chrome.2.0j69i57j0l3j69i60.4580j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_s
m=91&ie=UTF-8#q=romeo+and+juliet+shakespeare+characters
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeoscenes.html
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/romeo-and-juliet/romeo-and-juliet-at-a-glance
10:30-10:40 Have students to beginning writing down information that they have researched. Important Key
Factors.
10:40-10:55 Have students to pick partners. Once they have picked a partner, have students to identify key
elements of todays tragic events in relationships.
10:55-11:00 Have students to review important facts on what they just learned.
Day 2:
10:00-10:15 have students to begin working on where they left off last class period.
10:15-10:45 Tell students that they will then have to create a PowerPoint that will include: Who Shakespeare
is, Key factors of Romeo and Juliet, How their love was a tragedy, How love in todays world can be tragic
just like the love that Romeo and Juliet shared?
10:45- 10:55 Have students go around and quickly tell what was the most important fact that they have
learned.
10:55-11:00 Thank students for their hard work and have students to turn their PowerPoints in via email.
Closure: Thank students for all their hard work. Tell students that you are very proud of all the effort they put
into their PowerPoint and you are excited to look over them all. Tell students that Shakespeare was an important
figure to the world back then and you are glad that they are able to see the comparison to the tragic love that
was encountered in Romeo and Juliet and in the world today.
ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE:
MODIFICATIONS:
I am aware that modifications will be made for students who did not master the objectives and for
those ready for enrichment. However, modifications are not covered in this course and are not part
of this particular lesson.