Lesson Topic:
Ninth Grade Mythology Unit
Time Span:
2 or 3 50 minute class periods
Learners:
- 30 ninth grade students
- academically at-risk
- reading levels range from 3-7 grade
- school is sixty percent low-income with a 78% graduation rate
- 13 students with IEPs
- 5 students with 504s
- 3 students labeled as ELL
Materials:
- Software Type One-Drill and Practice
- Software Type Two-Tutorial
- Chromebooks
Standards:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Learning Targets:
- I can match Greek Gods and Goddesses with their Roman names.
- I can write a thesis statement.
- I can analyze a selection of text from The Odyssey.
- I can compose a literary analysis paragraph claiming Odysseus is an epic hero.
Learning Activities:
- Students will begin with a warm up.
- Students will go to the Quizlet app on their Chromebooks.
- Students will access Mrs. Solomon’s Quizlet (drill and practice software) account in order to review the Greek Gods and Goddess. This will help prepare students for the quiz tomorrow.
- Students will review both Roman names and the roles and responsibilities of the gods and goddesses.
- While students are practicing on Quizlet, Mrs. Solomon will pass out the reading passage from the Odyssey.
2. Before reading the selection from the Odyssey, students will prepare for the essay by using Essaypunch. (Tutorial)
- The teacher will instruct each student which tutorial he or she should complete based upon previous writing assignments.
- The students will complete one or more of the following tutorials in order to prepare for the writing prompt: thesis, topic sentence, sentence structure, or incorporating textual evidence. This allows students of all abilities to practice the most important skill for them.
- While completing the tutorials, the teacher will walk around and assist in the process.
3. Upon completing the warm up, students will read and annotate the selection from “Cyclops” in the Odyssey.
- While reading the selection, students are to underline any examples proving Odysseus is the epic hero. (Characteristics of an epic hero were discussed prior to this activity.)
- While underlining, students are gathering textual evidence to use in their literary analysis paragraph.
- The students will use the knowledge from Quizlet to understand the role the gods and goddesses play in the text.
4. Once annotation is complete, the students will begin outlining their literary analysis paragraphs.
- Students will outline their paragraphs based on their textual evidence.
- Using the skills built upon in the tutorial, the students will compose a literary analysis about Odysseus as an epic hero.