Inquiry Based Lesson Plan

Teachers: Mr. Briner

Subject: Language Arts 6th-8th

Standard:
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized
or absent in each treatment (e.g., Audens Muse des Beaux Arts and Breughels Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
(910.RL.7)
Objective (Explicit):
Students will display understanding imagery by reverse engineering a narrative based on a picture or specifically a
collage.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
Did the student successfully tell a story or narrative with the images?
Was the story related to the image?
Did the student take into account how objects or people within the image could affect their narrative?
Did the student use the images they saw and relate them to any of the 5 senses? (part of imagery)
Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

SWBAT understand imagery.

SWBAT use the 5 senses when discussing imagery.
SWBAT reverse engineer a story/narrative by using imagery

Key vocabulary: Imagery, Collage, Taste, Touch, Smell, Sight,

Hear (The 5 senses)

Materials/Technology Resources to be used:

1) PPT: on imagery with examples of

pictures that relate to a passage that
uses imagery.
2) Examples: of collages or pictures that
the students can use to write a narrative
incorporating the 5 senses.
3) Paper/Pencils: for the students to create
their narratives on.

Engage (Make content and learning relevant to real life and connect to student interest)
Introduce some examples of imagery in current magazines or marketing and highlight how these images have a
purpose that is often supporting/supplementing text. Show how the real world uses images that relate to words so the
students get a perspective of how they might observe imagery in their everyday lives.

Explore

Teacher Will: Familiarize the students with imagery

and how the 5 senses are incorporated into imagery
by giving a brief PowerPoint on imagery.

Student Will: After the students are refreshed on

imagery and the 5 senses they will look for images
that they might write a narrative using the 5 senses
on. The students will browse through images that
they find interesting and might use to create a
narrative with.

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation
Instead of providing the students with images to work with, you could have them find their own images on
the computer or from their camerarolls on their phones. If they use this option the images need to
obviously be appropriate, but have the student send the images to the instructor so they can put them up on
the overhead screen so others can see them.

Explain

Teacher Will: Assist students if they need help with

ideas on how to translate their selected image into
text with ideas on how to do so.

Student Will: Work on their narratives and while

they are doing this process they will be explaining
on how the image that they selected relates to 1 or
multiple of the 5 senses and by doing so display
understanding of imagery.

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation

Elaborate

Instead of creating a narrative or story, the students could create a mock news article or segment that they
might find in a magazine. If students are really grasping this concept, they could make 5 different narratives
from 1 image focusing on each of the 5 senses. 1 narrative for sight, another for taste, etc.
Teacher Will: Guide classroom discussion on the
images or the narrative that the students created.
This should be a very informal presentation, try not
to pull too much of the spotlight onto the students so
they do not get shell shocked away from sharing
their ideas.

Student Will: Students will share both the image that

they selected and the short narrative that they have
written using imagery based off of the image.
Other students can give feedback or discuss how the
image makes them feel.

Co-Teaching Strategy/Differentiation
Instead of a classroom wide discussion, they can share their work with their shoulder partner, maybe put
them into small groups and share, but there should be some discussion about the students work nonetheless.
Evaluate
Check for understanding at the end of the lesson and make sure that key points have been absorbed by the students via
debriefing discussion session after the main discussion session.