Chapter Eleven: Integrated Lesson Plan

For my eighth grade English integrated lesson plan, students will spend a class period searching the internet for a video, article, or political cartoon illustrating persuasion or argumentation. It may be a clip from a news show, a talk show, movie, play, excerpt from a book, an article, a poem, etc. They will take notes on their selected material and begin to plan an outline for a brief paper and presentation. The next class, students will compare and finalize their outlines together, making sure that they have successfully taken a stance on the issue and sufficiently defended their view. For homework for the next class, they will write their one to two page papers. All claims will be backed up with quotations from the text, whether it be written, visual, or audio/visual. I will assess their draft and return it for revision. Their next homework assignment will be to revise their short paper, and to embed their source material into a Powerpoint presentation. The next class, each student will share their findings with help from the Powerpoint presentation, and explain their analysis. The purpose of this lesson is to strengthen the students’ skills in research, analytic and persuasive writing, and the use of the internet and Powerpoint as an educational tool; and to practice their public speaking skills.