Category What is Just?

Name of Course/Class: English II

Grade Level: 9th /10th
Technology/Resources/Materials:
1 per student: 1 per class:
Chromebook with internet access LCD Projector
Headphones Teachers computer with access to internet
Google Docs Slide changer
Notebook PowerPoint
Pen/Pencil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TG_H_oY2E
Backgroun
d Accommodations Modifications
A student struggles with reading skills (reading The students work will be modified in the following ways:
comprehension and development) The accommodations Test questions will be read aloud with the help of the
are as follows: Kurzweil 3000 software for reading.
Student will use Kurzweil 3000 software for Extended test time.
reading.
Teacher will also present written information
verbally.

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Objective
Given five multiple choice questions via Formative web 2.0 tool, students will identify the theme and the central idea of the
text, with 80% accuracy.
Essential Questions: What is justice? Who determines what is just? Can progress be made without conflict?
Orient Standards:
the
NJCCCS Common Core NJCCCS for Technology ISTE
leaner:
NJSLSA.SL2. Integrate CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9- 8.1.12.C.1. Develop an 1c. Students use technology
and evaluate information 10.2 Determine a theme or innovative solution to a real to seek feedback that
presented in diverse central idea of a text and world problem or issue in informs and improves their
collaboration with peers and
media and formats, analyze in detail its practice and to demonstrate
experts, and present ideas for
including visually, development over the feedback through social their learning in a variety of
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 quantitatively, and orally. course of the text, media or in an online ways.
including how it emerges community.
and is shaped and refined
by specific details; provide
an objective summary of
the text.
Interdisciplinary Standards

NJCCCS

6.1.12.D.8.a. Explain why the Great Migration led to heightened racial tensions, restrictive laws, a rise in repressive
organizations, and an increase in violence.

Anticipatory Set/Hook/Daily Review: Time to complete: 5 minutes

Each student will take a Chrome book when they enter the classroom. The students had to read the book To Kill a Mockingbird as
summer reading. Using the Chrome book, they will go on Edpuzzle and watch a video of the trial scene from the movie To Kill a
Mockingbird, on which they will have comments from the teacher. This video will introduce the idea of justice and how it was
abused in the book.
(Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TG_H_oY2E)

Input/Modeling or Present Information: Time to complete: 8 minutes

Instructional Teacher will present the key concepts and vocabulary words via PowerPoint presentation.
Design: The concepts discussed are the following: setting, plot, conflict and theme.
Students will take notes in their notebooks at this time.
In the PowerPoint presentation, the teacher will analyze the idea of justice throughout the book, the definition of the term and
quotations throughout the book that exemplify justice or the lack of it.

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The PowerPoint presentation will also include a slide presenting the connection between the book, and the historical events of the
time such as the Great Migration.

The Great Migration was the result of the following:

When WWI started, white men were enrolled and had to leave and go to war. Thus, city factories were left without
employees which resulted in them bringing African Americans from the South to fill these vacant jobs.
When slavery ended in the South, slaves became indentured servants which was a step better than being slaves but nowhere
near to being free. This caused former slaves to migrate to the cities in the North, where they could find jobs and no longer
be servants.
White supremacy was largely restored across the South, and the segregationist policies known as Jim Crow soon became
the law of the land.

Check for Understanding/Provide Learner Guidance: Time to complete: 4 minutes

Students will answer these two questions via Formative web 2.0 tool:
Explain justice in your own words.
How does the concept of justice interact with a characters motivation?

Guided Practice with coaching /Elicit Performance: Time to complete: 8 minutes

Students will play Jeopardy Labs with the assistance of the teacher; all the game questions will be from the book To Kill a
Mockingbird. There will be three teams, not all teams will have an equal number of students. Each team will get to answer one
question of their choosing. As the students respond to the questions, the teacher will explain why the response chosen is or is not
the correct answer.

Independent Practice/Provide informative feedback: Time to complete: 8 minutes

Students will split into groups of five where they will do research online on the historical times that the book takes place in.
Students will create a slide each in Google Slides (perquisite skill). The slides will be a visual representation of the setting of To
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 Kill a Mockingbird, meaning that the students will find pictures that best describe the historical time from their point of view. The
slides will each contain one photo and one caption. The teacher will provide feedback as the students are working.

Closure: Time to complete: 3 minutes

Students will complete a 3-2-1 activity, in which they will write on a blank piece of paper, three things they learned from this
lesson, two things they found interesting, and one thing on which they still have questions. This paper will be considered their exit
ticket out of class. This activity will help students remember the lesson and engage in reflective thinking. This will also help the
teacher see what the students did not understand.

Formal Assessment: Time to complete: 5 minutes

Students will go into Formative web 2.0 tool and answer five multiple choice questions on the theme and the central idea of To Kill
a Mockingbird.

Enhance/Transfer: Time to complete: 4 minutes

The teacher will go around the room and ask the students to explain one current event in which they encountered lack of justice.
The teacher will give an example of a court room case from the present day in which justice was not served and make the
connection to the court room case in To Kill a Mockingbird, by showing parallels of the two.

Student Feedback:
Which technology used in the classroom did you enjoy most?
Recommendation:

Teacher Feedback:
Is Formative more time consuming than Socrative?