Learning Experience Plan

Subject: English

Grade level: 7

Unit: Plays
minutes

Length of LEP (days/periods/minutes): 45

Topic: Inherit The Wind

Content Standards:

(include only standards addressed in this LEP)

Learning Experience Outcomes

Learning Experience Assessments:

The next day they will have a quiz on
Students will: Read, act act, and close
what they had to read for homework
read acts 1 and 2 of Inherit The Wind in before reading in class
order to identify themes
(knowledge/skills)

Differentiation

(What will you do to meet the needs of students at these different levels?)

Lena:
In order to help Lena with
her reading problem, I
believe the acting will
help significantly. If she is
unable to understand the
meanings of words, she
can see what the
students are doing when
they act, and hopefully
she can grasp some
terms and eventually get
the hang of it. Also a
helpful way is having
vocabulary words for
each act, listed and this
way she can learn the
words beforehand and
when it comes time to
see the words, she will
know them.
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Rodney:
When it comes to
Rodneys distractions, I
believe that having him,
or him watching, the
students acting will be
very helpful. If he is the
one acting, it is hard to
get off task and it could
just be what he needs,
some sort of role in the
classroom. And if he is
watching, while reading
along, it could be
beneficial because then
he is still entrained and
wont just be sitting in
class. Both ways can
keep him moving while
learning and he wont
have to sit still.

Beyond

(Does this lesson correlate with any other content area? Describe.)

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Material Procedures/Strategies
s:
Copies
of
every
act of
the
play
Graphic
organiz
er

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Day 1

(add additional days as needed)

Sponge Activity (activity that will be done as students enter the room to get them into the
mindset of the concept to be learned)
Fact of the day: Carrie Underwood has 23 #1 singles out of 25
Anticipatory Set (focus question/s that will be used to get students thinking about the days
lesson)
What is the play about?
Activating Prior Knowledge (what information will be shared with/among students to
connect to prior knowledge/experience )
Do you know anything about the play prior to us reading it? Ask if
they know what a theme is
Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)
1) Give a small preview about what the play is about
A teacher is on trial for teaching the theory of evolution in school
when he is not allowed to teach that but the theory of creationism.
2) A theme is a central idea of topic, what the the overall meaning, a
certain message; what is it the author is trying to express?
3) Pick people to start reading/acting
4) Start reading/acting
5) Ask what happens when completed reading and find the themes of
the play
6) Give them homework (read further on in the play)
Guided Practice
Discuss the themes in the play with textual evidence on a graphic
organizer
Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the lesson)
Students will answer questions about what happens in the the first 2
acts
Closure (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson presentation to an appropriate
close)

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 Discuss what happened that day and what they will do tomorrow

Reading: 1) B. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over
the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text

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Textual
Evidence

The
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