LESSON PLAN [60 min] Date: _________________

Unit English
Class Year 9 Stage 5
Lesson Focus The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe How Nouns, Pronouns and language techniques create
atmosphere.
Outcomes EN5-1A: responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for
understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure.
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features: identify how
vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effectiveness.
Develop and apply contextual knowledge: analyse and explain the ways language
forms and features, ideas, perspectives and originality are used to shape meaning.
EN5-2A: effectively uses and critically assesses a wide range of processes, skills, strategies
and knowledge for responding to and composing a wide range of texts in different media and
technologies.
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features: review, edit and
refine students own and others texts for control of content, organisation, sentence
structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and
effects.
EN5-4B: effectively transfers knowledge, skills and understanding of language concepts into
new and different contexts.
Engage personally with texts: appreciate and value the ways language concepts,
ideas and information can be shaped and transformed for new and different contexts.
Understand and apply knowledge of language forms and features: evaluate how
particular forms and features of language and structures of texts can be adapted,
synthesised and transformed for new and different purposes, audiences and
contexts.
Respond to and compose texts: creatively transform a range of different types of
texts, including their own, into new and imaginative texts, experimenting with
patterns, representations, intertextuality and appropriations.

Resources Students printed handouts of The Raven. 6 copies of each 5 stanzas chosen (1, 4, 7, 17,
18), prepared slides with common noun/proper noun/pronoun quiz.

Teaching Aids PowerPoint slides.

Sequence of Teaching and Learning Activities

Sequence Language Students
Mode / Topic / content/ skills they are going to develop and the activities they will do
(Timing) Class
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe/Language techniques/Ability to understand language and language
Organisation techniques and apply them to their own writing to create or change atmosphere and meaning.

Step 1: Viewing, Brief over common/proper nouns and pronouns.

Listening
Engagement Quiz students using the prepared slides 10 slides with sentences asking
How will you get the students What word is a %? (% = common/proper/pronoun).
Individual
students attention and (10 minutes)
motivate them?
Step 2: Reading, Split students into 6 groups of 5 by numbering each student 1 to 5 and getting
Writing
Instruction them to group in their respective numbers.
Is there any content / Hand out 5 stanzas to each group 1 for each member of the group.
Individual
instructions you need to Instruct students that they are to replace the proper nouns, common nouns
share with students before
and pronouns in their stanzas with different nouns, and use specific
they begin?
vocabulary to create their theme.
Students are to keep the atmosphere of mystery that The Raven has but can
develop a theme to change it to, e.g. replace the raven with a seagull, replace
Lenore with a celebrity, and replace the chamber setting with a bathroom.
Students are encouraged to use concept mapping to help develop nouns to
incorporate into their theme.
 Students are to collaborate on their stanzas. Once a stanza is edited to
incorporate the new theme then the student should refer it to their group and
get feedback and evaluation regarding their use of language and vocabulary.
(10 minutes)
Step 3: Reading, Students are to work together in groups on their transformation of their text.
Writing,
Exploration Using their knowledge of nouns they are to apply this to transform and
Speaking, compose a new text that retains the atmosphere of mystery.
What activities will you ask
Listening
the students to do to Teacher needs to wander between groups to ensure students stay on-task and
develop their
that their texts are appropriate.
understanding? Whole Class
Individual
Teacher should pose questions to students in their groups, e.g. what theme
are you aiming for? How will you change the text to make it that theme?
Teacher should answer any questions students have regarding the task.
(20 minutes)
Step 4: Writing, Students are to present their composed texts to the class in their group in the
Speaking,
Feedback order of the stanzas.
Listening, Groups to be selected at random.
What activities can you and
Viewing
the class do to show they (20 minutes)
understood the focus of this
lesson? Whole Class

Extension Activities Students are to take a paragraph (at least 4-5 lines) from a text of their choosing and transform it
in the same manner that the stanzas from The Raven have been transformed in the lessons
activities.
If students do not complete this in the class they are to complete it as homework and provide
proof of completion to the teacher in the following class.
Assessment Informal: quality of text transformation during stanza presentation. Students are assessed on their
(Formal/Informal) ability to adhere to the atmosphere of mystery yet change the settings and characters.
Evaluation / Reflection

Class Organisation: Language Modes: Cooperative Learning Strategies:

Whole Class Reading Jigsaw
Small Groups Writing Expert Groups
Pairs Speaking Y Chats
Individual Listening PMI (Plus Minus
Learning Centres Viewing Interesting)
Library Representing Hot Potato
Online Learning Venn Diagrams
Concept Mapping