Lesson Planschelsea Bagwell's Teaching Portfolio
Unit Plan for To Kill A Mockingbird (Second Half): When I began my leave replacement position at Brewster High School, my advanced 9th-grade students were halfway through their study of To Kill A Mockingbird. The following document contains my lesson plans, including Common Core standards addressed, for the second half of the novel. I included multiple supplementary texts such as articles about recent events in Ferguson, MO, songs by Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, and F.D.R.’s inaugural speech. View/Download
An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The following document contains my lesson plans, including Common Core standards addressed, for the second half of the novel. I included multiple supplementary texts such as articles about recent events in Ferguson, MO, songs by Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, and F.D.R.’s inaugural speech. LESSON 1: THE TEACHING PORTFOLIO AND ITS CONTENTS ACTIVITY 1 Before you begin to prepare building your Portfolio, you need to make sure that you have completed all the outputs for this course.
Conceptual Unit Plan: “Sex, Choice, and Dystopia”:I developed this 10-week conceptual unit plan with advanced high school students in mind. It focuses primarily on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. There are two main educational purposes for the use of this conceptual unit: to develop students’ understanding of subtle and advanced rhetorical strategies, which can be applied both to literature and nonfiction; and to explore the way in which women’s bodies and sexuality are used as a rhetorical site of critique, extending that understanding to examine our society at large. View/Download
Unit Plan for Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai: This unit is designed to be adaptable to all grade levels, though it was written with ninth graders in mind. Essential questions addressed include: How do children internalize heteronormativity? What are the ethical concerns with “turning a blind eye” to problems? What do we do when authorities are unwilling or unable to help us? How can exploring a variety of perspectives enhance our understanding of events? What do all injustices—racism, homophobia, religious intolerance, etc.—have in common? View/Download
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Mini-Unit for Introduction to Poetry: This four-day unit is intended as a brief foray into literary analysis of poems. Students use poems by Billy Collins, Kim Addonizio, and yours truly in order to explore the nature of reader response and the trouble with trying to find out what a poem “really means.” This unit is an example of a collection of lessons that I developed day-by-day in my student teaching placement at Frank Sinatra. View/Download