Lesson Plan Template WCSD Writing Program Teacher’s name: Kira Temple Teacher’s school: McQueen High School
Writing Type/Genre: Explanatory Writing (9th-10th) Lesson Title: Mythology Explanatory Essay Standards-based Outcomes: Introduce a topic with a preview of what is to follow. Organize the writing to make important connections and distinctions among ideas or concepts. Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and other examples appropriate to audience’s knowledge of the topic. Provide a concluding statement or section that supports the explanation. Student Outcomes: Students will be able to write an informational paper using creativity as a vehicle. Students will present their writing to an audience conveying the tone they have written in. Audience and Purpose for Lesson: The primary purpose is to inform; students will choose a secondary purpose for their writing. The audience will primarily be the student’s peers and teacher, however, the students will choose a pretend audience to write for as well. This lesson is excellent at the beginning of the year for 9th or 10th graders to learn research writing. This lesson takes approximately 400 minutes, with very little research and writing done as homework. Pre-requisite Skills/Background Knowledge: Students need have basic background knowledge about the topics they will be researching and explaining in their writing. For example, when I teach this lesson, students have been taught about 60 minutes of Greek Mythology.
Resources/Supplies Needed: Several graphic organizers and student samples are attached to this lesson. Access to a library and/or computer lab is important, as is access to enough books on the topic for class library days. Lined paper. Mentor Text(s): Student samples are attached to this lesson. I teach this lesson with The Odyssey.