Data Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan:
The students are to read a book of their choice and create a word tree using their favorite passages from their book selection. The students must also show what passages they chose and explain why they chose the passages they did. They can choose from the list of books provided or select one of their own and get it approved first. The students should get out of this a more thorough understanding of the characters and plot in the book they chose. Instead of just reading the book to take the test, they will have to interpret why they liked specific passages from the book using context clues and close reading.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Dracula by Bram Stoker

I have provided a wide range of novels for you to choose from...Happy Reading!


My Word Tree...
In keeping with the civil war theme of my blog I chose The Red Badge of Courage for my example of what the lesson will turn out as...



The three passages I chose are:
1. "He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity. He saw that he would again be obliged to experiment as he had in early youth. He must accumulate information of himself, and meanwhile he resolved to remain close upon his guard lest those qualities of which he knew nothing should everlastingly disgrace him."

2. "He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country—was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee, no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand."

3."His self-pride was now entirely restored. In the shade of its flourishing growth he stood with braced and self-confident legs, and since nothing could now be discovered he did not shrink from an encounter with the eyes of judges, and allowed no thoughts of his own to keep him from an attitude of manfulness. He had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man."