Lesson Nineteen: The Voyage Home

1. Focus and Review

• Journal Time based on yesterday's question of the day.
• Discussion
  

2. Objectives

• Standard Course of Study Goal English I:

• 1.01 Narrate personal experiences that offer an audience:
• The Learner will write so that scenes and incidents are located effectively in time and place, and vivid impression of settings and a sense of engagement in the events that are occurring can be seen in the writing. (writing prompt)
  

• 1.02 Respond reflectively (individually and in groups) to a variety of expressive texts            (e.g., memoirs, vignettes, narratives, diaries, monologues, personal responses) in a way            that offers an audience:
• The learner will show a personal reaction to the text with a sense of how that comes from careful consideration of the text. (Journals)
• The learner will show an awareness of how personal and cultural influences affect the response. (discussion of this in essay)

• 5.01 Read and analyze various literary works by:
• producing creative responses that follow the conventions of a specific genre and using appropriate literary devices for that genre. (Students use of this in essay.)

• 5.02  Demonstrating increasing comprehension and ability to respond personally to texts by selecting and exploring a wide range of genres in this case the epic poem. (reading)
  

• 2.02 Explain commonly used terms and concepts that:
• The student will be able to clearly state the subject to be defined and be able to classify terms and identify distinguishing characteristics in an organized manner with efficient details. (The students use of this in essay)
  

• Standard Course of Study Computer Competency Goal for 9th Grade students:

• 5.02  Produce media in various formats such as multimedia.  (Three students can work on computer web project while class participates in lesson.)

• 5.06  Apply fair use copyright guidelines (Copyright Law, P.L. 94-553) in all projects.

• This lesson is an inference lesson because students are exploring the use of writing and then taking their understanding of the epic poem and using it to create their own work.

• Materials needed are student Journals, Textbook Elements of Literature, Overhead, overhead pens, Clean Overhead Sheets,  Overhead with writing prompt, and Overhead with square teaching tool, and classroom computer with sign up sheet.

3. Guided Practice

• Read 944-948  Odysseus and Penelope and Ithaca
  

4. Teacher Input

• Break down the writing prompt into verbs, and explore with students what the writing prompt is asking the students to do.
• Show students a simple design to collect evidence and break down what they are doing in the writing process.
  

5. Independent Practice

• Assignment:  Have students write a rough draft to their writing prompt
  

6. Closure

• Go over objectives of the day. 
• Today we have practiced journaling and discussion of question posed in class.
  
• Today we read and worked on understanding, The Odyssey by Homer.
• Today we will gain skills in analyzing a writing prompt.
• Today we gained skills in writing as we wrote the rough draft of our writing prompt.
• Today we used differentiated learning by having some students work independently on their web sites.

• Informal Question and Answer time with Students

• Question of the Day and your journal question for tomorrow is:
• Inference:  Predict what the result would be if  Penelope was a modern woman whose husband returned after twenty years?
  
  

Bibliography:   I am using this textbook in my unit plan.  Some ideas used in my lesson plans sprung from notes in the teachers edition.