The Academy for Technology & the Classics

Lesson Plan Template

Instructors name: Devin Ayers Week of: 02/24 02/28 Common Core/ NM Content Standards: SL.11-12.1; SL.11-12.4; RI.11-2.1 RI.11-12.9 Essential Question(s): How do we improve our ability to do well on the multiple choice section of the AP exam? Other considerations (modifications, accommodations, acceleration, etc.): Students who require it will receive extended deadlines for writing assignments and/or shortened reading. Connections (prior learning/prior knowledge): Students will access prior experience taking multiple choice exams. Resources/Materials Teacher: Students: AP Released Multiple Choice Items Norton Reader Course/Grade: AP Language and Composition Unit Name: Multiple Choice Practice

Assessment (How will you monitor progress and know students have successfully met outcomes?) Daily: direct observation This Week: direct observation/written narratives of multiple choice answers/Socratic dialogue Unit: direct observation/written narratives of multiple choice answers/Socratic dialogue Time allotted MONDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills at correctly answering AP multiple choice items. They will show their learning by answering items, discussing the correct answers and generating written narratives of the correct/incorrect answers. In class, students will answer 24 AP multiple choice items. They will then be given the correct answers. Using this information, they will discuss their mistakes and victories, and begin to construct written narratives of the logic that lead to a correct or incorrect answer. Lesson activities for instructor and students Assignment(s) Due-

TUESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills at correctly answering AP multiple choice items. They will show their learning by answering items, discussing the correct answers and generating written narratives of the correct/incorrect answers. In class, students will discuss their mistakes and victories, and begin to construct written narratives of the logic that lead to a correct or incorrect answer.

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WEDNESDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills at correctly answering AP multiple choice items. They will show their learning by answering items, discussing the correct answers and generating written narratives of the correct/incorrect answers. In class, students will discuss their mistakes and victories, and begin to construct written narratives of the logic that lead to a correct or incorrect answer.

Assignment(s) DueWritten narratives: questions 1-11

THURSDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their skills at correctly answering AP multiple choice items. They will show their learning by answering items, discussing the correct answers and generating written narratives of the correct/incorrect answers. In class, students will discuss their mistakes and victories, and begin to construct written narratives of the logic that lead to a correct or incorrect answer. FRIDAY Learning TargetStudents will improve their speaking and listening

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Assignment(s) DueWritten narratives: questions 12-24

skills. They will show their learning through Socratic dialogue. In class, students will conduct a Socratic dialogue over The Mystery of Zen.

Socratic dialogue: The Mystery of Zen by Gilbert Highet