For Supervisor

Blog Post # II) Lesson/Unit Plan to your supervisor – in this blog post you explain your plan as if you were really going to do this on the job at school and you are providing your supervisor the lesson plan for it

UNIT: Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

Subject: 10-11th Grade ELA class with Advanced ESL students

Teacher’s reasoning for Unit:
The idea behind this unit came after I watched Randy Paush’s last lecture. In this lecture, Proffesor Paucsh advises adults to decide whether they are a Tigger or an Eeyore to further reflect on their life. He makes the claim, that Tiggers are the ones achieving the impossible, smiling all the time, and satisfying their personal goals. Eeyores are naturally gloomy, expecting the worst and not dreaming enough. Whereas, I do see how being a Tigger can assist students (and teachers) with more of a positive attitude, I wanted them to explore this topic on their own. In fact, the most balanced of people are probably the most comforted. The students are to use 2 short stories from the Winnie the Pooh series to explore these areas of limitlessness vs. limiting, intelligence vs. wisdom, etc.




Materials:
This is a web based unit, and all materials can be found on the Internet. Students are still asked to manipulated text and utilize classic ELA functions via character analysis and writing prompts. All worksheets, slideshows, rubrics, PowerPoint are original and created by teacher.

Assessment:
The Assessments are two character map worksheets which analyze the personality traits of Tigger and Eeyore, and a PowerPoint presentation which culminates the students’ reflections. Students are asked to make text to self connection in a reflection slide on their power point. The character map worksheets and PowerPoint writing prompts are designed as pre-emptive writing prompts for Regents essays. They are to use Essential Question and show evidence using quotes and analysis.