Two Lesson Plans
Lesson Title: The Color Purple Day 1 - For full text download document
Subject Area & Grade Level: English Language Arts Grade 11 Standard
Introduction
First day of The Color Purple, students will enter the text through the view of relationships and considering how people treat each other.
Overview of Lesson Plan
Students arrive in class, trade their phones for their laptops and daybook journals. In their daybook journals they write about the question, “Who are the most important people in your life? What characteristics define your relationships with those people? Are they positive/negative influences on your life? What do you get out of these relationships? What do you put into these relationships? Pick 1 or 2 people you are thinking about and write out an answer that will be just for your and my eyes. 5 minutes
Then students’ will have an opportunity to share good news before we move forward into the activity. 5 minutes
Students will fill out the relationships activity worksheet and write out 3-5 active elements of the relationships to share with a partner. In pairs, students will determine their top five active elements combined. Then they will form a square (group of 4) and create an 8.5X11 poster of their 5 active elements. Then the squares will share out by presenting their posters on the overhead for the whole class. 30 minutes
There will be a class discussion about healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships and teacher will segue into the introduction of The Color Purple. Students will receive copies of the novel, and learn about their note-taking options. There will be time to read in class while taking their notes, and then time in groups to help each other with notes. Students will give their attention back to the teacher to wrap-up, and get information about upcoming schedule. Then students will write an exit slip of one thought and one question about their initial impressions of how relationships affect identity formation.
Bellringer daybook journal – 5 minutes
Student News – 5 minutes
Relationship Activity – 30 minutes
Intro to text-background – 5 minutes
Introduce note-taking options – 5 minutes
Read & notetaking individually--20 minutes
Work on notes in groups– 10 minutes
Wrap-Up – 5 minutes
Exit slip – 5 minutes
Assign reading & notes to be taken through page 21. (anything they don’t finish in class)
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