Unit: Dystopian Society

Lesson Plan Topic/Focus: Teaching of Reading Strategies (Prediction Guide)

Date: Tuesday August 30
Grade: 12th
Duration: 45 minutes
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on
one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the
text. (RL.12.2)
21st Century Skill(s)
Communicate Clearly Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral,
written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
Learning Target
How can literature (fiction) be related to reality?
Objectives
By the end of class today, students will
Be able to determine the central idea of the short story The Veldt
Be able to make predictions based on the textual evidence
Anticipatory Set (5 Minutes)
Do Now In your journals, record one interesting thing that occurred in
chapters 1-3 of BNW and one question that you have.
On the blackboard the words TECHNOLOGY CONSUMES YOU
should be written before students get to class
Students will write in their journals what they think this
means or how it makes them feel.
Teaching: Activities (37 Minutes)
After students finish their journals:
Prediction Guide for The Veldt by Ray Bradbury (Provided after lesson)
There will be 30 copies of the prediction guide on my desk and 13 copies of the
story
Students will get into groups of 2 (Count off by 12 and have them move
next to their partner) and complete the prediction to turn in at the end of class.
Each Student gets a guide and each group gets a story

The Teacher will take the students through the guide, reading each segment to
the students as depicted on the guide and allowing students to answer the
questions with their partner.
Closure (3 Minutes)
Exit Slip-How did Technology consume the family in the story?
Independent Practice
Read to PART 2 of Chapter 4 in BNW
Record a prediction on a piece of notebook paper to share with the class
that you make based on the what we have read so far. (Graded for participation
for the next day)
Assessment
Be able to determine the central idea of the short story The Veldt
Students are asked in their guided prediction guides to
write down the central theme/idea of the short story
Be able to make predictions based on the textual evidence
Students are asked to make predictions in the prediction
guides as well as in their homework for class the next day
Materials
Journals
30 copies of the prediction guide
13 copies of the story
BNW copies
Half sheet of paper for exit slip