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University of Arkansas Fort Smith

School of Education
Lesson Plan Format
Unit Title:

Dystopian Fiction- Subunit The

Diary of a Young Girl

Subject Area:

English

Lesson Title: Show me your hiding place

Grade Level:

th

Duration of Lesson: 50 minutes

Date(s): 12/01/2014

Name: Lindsay Tillery

SOE Course: Young Adult Literature

I. Standard(s) and Objective(s)

Standard(s): CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective

technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D

Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a
vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
Objective(s)
SWBAT: create a narrative describing their secret annex, such as the one in The Diary of a
Young Girl
II. Assessment
Pre-assessment (before planning lesson)
A few days before the lesson, I will ask students to fill out an exit slip describing things that they
consider necessities, and things they consider luxuries. They will need to contemplate the
difference as they work on their summative assessment. We will discuss these briefly in our next
class, students with questionable choices will be allowed to voluntarily provide a rationalization for
their choices.

Post-assessment
Students will write a narrative describing what their secret annex would look like. This would be
their safe place, and would include information about their necessities. These necessities would

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not be food and water, but the things that are so important to them, that they feel they couldnt live
without them. We would discuss these in class after they have completed them. Upon completion
of the book, we will discuss any changes the students would want to make to their hiding place.
How would they feel after hiding for two years?

III. Planning
I would coordinate with the Special Education, or ESL instructors to develop any differentiations that
should be made to the rubric, students could possibly be allowed to draw the assignment and present
privately.
IV. Engaging the Learner
After being seated, we would discuss the current section of The Diary of a Young Girl. This lesson
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should take place after the students read the entry for Wednesday July 8 , 1942. As a group, we will
discuss our thoughts regarding this section.
V. Methods, Activities and Resources
Methods
Discovery Learning
Group Discussion
Activities
After a brief discussion, I will show the students the Virtual Tour of the Secret Annex. During
the Virtual Tour, we will listen to the narrations, and I will allow the students to guide the
discussion, only stepping in to provide additional information, and maintain classroom
management,
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Resources
The Diary of a Young Girl class set
Class computer
Projector

VI. Potential Adaptations to the Lesson {PAL}

In case of shortened class time, we will move the discussion to the next class period.

VII. Collaboration
I would collaborate with the History teacher in order to present this lesson during his or her unit on
WWII. I believe this cross curricular lesson would allow for a deeper understanding of the events as
they unfold in the text.
VIII. Reflection and efficacy (to be completed after teaching this lesson)
Adopted Spring 2014