Chapter Twelve: Final Integrated Lesson Plan

Course:
Middle School English
Title:
Analyzing Media
Overview:
For my 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.  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.
Objective of Lesson:
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.  In addition, the lesson will teach students to back up all claims with quotations from the text, whether it be written, visual, or audio/visual.
NJ Core Standards:
3.1.8 E. Reading Strategies (before, during, and after reading)
1. Monitor reading for understanding by automatically setting a purpose for reading, making and adjusting predictions, asking essential questions, and relating new learning to background experiences.
2. Use increasingly complex text guides to understand different text structure and organizational patterns (e.g. chronological sequence or comparison and contrast).
3.1.8 G. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text 
1. Differentiate between fact/opinion and bias and propaganda in newspapers, periodicals, and electronic texts.
2. Compare and analyze several authors’ perspectives of a character, personality, topic, setting, or event.
3. Analyze ideas and recurring themes found in texts, such as good versus evil, across traditional and contemporary works.
4. Locate and analyze the elements of setting, characterization, and plot to construct understanding of
how characters influence the progression and resolution of the plot. 
5. Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the purpose, structure, and
elements of nonfiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding.
6. Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the theme, structure, style, and
literary elements of fiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding.
7. Respond critically to text ideas and the author’s craft by using textual evidence to support
interpretations.
8. Identify and analyze literary techniques and elements, such as figurative language, meter, rhetorical,
and stylistic features of text.
9. Identify and analyze recurring themes across literary works.
10. Read critically and analyze poetic forms (e.g., ballad, sonnet, couplet).
11. Identify and understand the author’s use of idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry.
12. Understand perspectives of authors in a variety of interdisciplinary works. 
13. Interpret text ideas through journal writing, discussion, and enactment.
14. Demonstrate the use of everyday texts (e.g., train schedules, directions, brochures) and make judgments about the importance of such documents.
15. Compare and analyze the various works of writers through an author’s study
3.1.8 H. Inquiry and Research
1. Produce written and oral work that demonstrates comprehension of informational materials.
2. Analyze a work of literature, showing how it reflects the heritage, traditions, attitudes, and beliefs of its authors.
3. Collect materials for a portfolio that reflect personal career choices. 
4. Self-select materials appropriately related to a research project.
5. Read and compare at least two works, including books, related to the same genre, topic, or subject and produce evidence of reading (e.g., compare central ideas, characters, themes, plots, settings). 
Technology Used:
Internet
Powerpoint
Blog
Assessment:
Students' drafts will receive comments and they will have a chance to revise them before the final due date.  Students will be graded on the following: their research skills and ability to cite references, their writing skills including argumentation or persuasion, organization, structure, and clarity.