KTIP Pilot Project Lesson Plan Format
Name: Jamie Beaven Date:
# of Students: 28 # of IEP Students: 0 # of GSSP Students: 0 # of LEP Students: 0
Subject: The Crucible Major Content: English Lesson Length: Five days, plus assessment time
Unit Title: The Crucible
Context
After reading the play and performing the instructed assessment, students will be able to not only understand the text with a deeper meaning, they will be able to interpret it. They will be able to apply what they read into their own terms while displaying key ideas by making it a part of their videos.
Objectives
After reading Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, students will have a background of the Salem Witch Trials; what sparked them and to what extent they escalated. Also, based on the assessment, students will be able to take a storyline and relate it in different ways and therefore open up creative ability and enhance creative writing skills.
Connections
1.2 Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.
RD-11-2.0.1
Students will paraphrase information in a passage.
RD-11-2.0.3
Students will apply the information contained in a passage to accomplish a task/procedure or to answer questions about a passage
Students will explain the main ideas of a passage and identify the key ideas or information that support them.
Resources, media, and technology
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
http://www.geocities.com/jbeaven01
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/salem/
Windows Movie Maker Video
Procedures
This will include reading (together in class and outside of class, viewing an introductory movie, class discussions, a virtual fieldtrip, and an interactive website to relate the story to students.