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Teacher: Lauren Buchanan Date: Day 1

School: Bishop Carroll Catholic High Grade Level: 9 Content Area: ELA

Title: Introduce What Influences me? Lesson #: 1 of 25

Lesson Idea/Topic and Students will define influence and reflect on what influences them in order
Rationale/Relevance: to jump into the unit. The class will develop a definition, but the students
will take it or leave it as they reflect on outer influences. This will serve as a
pre-reflection that will compare to their final reflection.

Student Profile: Elective course, so most students chose to be in it.

Class of 23

Mostly identified as white, middle-class

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards directly from the standard)

3.1. Literary and narrative texts develop a controlling idea or theme with descriptive and expressive language

Understandings: (Big Ideas)

Students will develop an understanding of outside influences in their lives through reflection and exploration.
Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable questions from standard)

What outside factors influence the way I think or how I act?

What does influence actually mean?

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)

Every student will be able to: (Create your own lesson objectives from the standard using student voice)

I can: define influence and name outside influences in my own life.

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This means: I will participate in defining influence with the class and complete a personal reflection on influences in my life.

List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning targets associated with each assessment)

FORMATIVE: Reflection on outside influences with a working definition of influence

SUMMATIVE: Survival Guide

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Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson Pre-define and pre-reflect influences

Co-Teaching Which model(s) will be used?

Will co-teaching models be utilized in this lesson?
Yes ___ No X Why did you choose this model(s) and what are the teachers’ roles?

Approx. Time and Materials 55 minutes

Dictionary Definition
Dry Erase Board

Anticipatory Set The strategy I intend to use is:

Write “Influence” on the board and have students write down what they think of when
they see the word
I am using this strategy here because:
It will allow students to start thinking about the word influence as a whole and work
towards a definition
(5 minutes)
Procedures The strategy I intend to use is:
I intend to an extended definition and reflection/pre-reflection
I am using this strategy here because:
I want my students to delve into the unit as a whole and truly reflect on outside
influences on their lives
Student Actions Teacher Actions Data Collected

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1. Share out ideas (7 1. Lead discussion

minutes) (7 minutes)
2. Look at dictionary 2. Pull up
definition and dictionary
compare/contrast definition and
(8 minutes) facilitate
3. Explore through a compare/contra
reflection what st (8 minutes)
influences them (25 3. Walk around the
min) room and check on
students who may
be struggling (25
min)

Closure The strategy I intend to use is:

Share out GENERAL ideas to find commonalities among the class
I am using this strategy here because:
I want my students to see that a lot of them are fighting the same battles
Differentiation Content Process Product Environment
Modifications: Students can Headphones
choose how can be used, or
they reflect: if the students
journaling, need
drawing, web somewhere
mapping, etc. more
comfortable
they can go to
the library
Extensions:

Assessment FORMATIVE: Reflection on outside influences with a working definition of influence

SUMMATIVE: Survival Guide

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