Inquiry (5E) Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Emily Sadowski

Subject: 7th Grade English Language Arts

Standard: Determine

two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the
course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. (7RI.2)
Objective (Explicit):

The students will determine two or more central ideas in a text and interpret their
development over the course of the text.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable): Include a copy of the lesson assessment.

Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.

Assign value to each portion of the response.

Formative Assessment- The students will participate in group discussion, successfully able to
identify themes and track their progression throughout the work. Responses will be measured
on a scale of 1-4 based on the quality of their answers. Mastery will be considered a 3 response
or higher.
1- A theme is identified, but not explained.
2- Student can identify a theme, but has difficulty explaining it.
3- Student can identify and explain a theme, and discuss how it develops throughout the text in
broad terms
4- Student can identify and explain a theme, and discuss how it develops using examples from
the text.
Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

SWBAT discuss in groups

SWBAT identify central ideas in a text
SWBAT analyze the development of these ideas
SWBAT provide an objective summary of this development throughout the text
SWBAT write a paragraph on a specific themes development, using text evidence to support their claim.
Key vocabulary: Theme, Summary, Text Evidence
Materials: Pen/Pencil, Lined paper, Copy of written
work
Engage

How will you activate student interest?

How will you hook student attention?
What questions will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?

Teacher Will:

Student Will:

Teacher will give an example of a theme from a

different work that was previously discussed in

class, and give examples of how the theme
progresses in that work.
Explore:

Student will observe teachers example of how to

track themes throughout a popular work that is
interesting to the students.

How will model your performance expectations? Remember, you are not modeling what you want students to discover but
need to model expected behavior or required procedures.

How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer the question
posed in Engage?
What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are exploring?

Teacher Will:
Teacher will put students into group and ask them to
come up with two or more central themes in a work.
Teacher will then ask students to discuss how the
themes progress throughout the course of the work.

Student Will:

Students will work together to come up with at

least two central themes from the work.
Students will spend time in groups, discussing
the progression of these themes throughout the
work, finding specific text evidence to support
their claims.

Co-Teaching Strategy

What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy

What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?

How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

Students will be placed strategically into groups with students of different reading levels, so that they are able to
benefit from helping each other.
Explain

How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by answering the
question from Engage before moving on?

Teacher Will:

Teacher will facilitate a class discussion, asking

each group to share one of the themes they
focused on.
Teacher will use the most popular theme as the
focus for the class discussion.
Teacher will ask the groups to contribute
specific ways the theme has shown up
throughout the text
Co-Teaching Strategy

Student Will:

Each group will share the themes they

discussed with the class.
Each group will share with the class different
ways their group saw the theme develop
throughout the text

What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy

What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?

How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

If groups are struggling to come up with how the theme has developed, the teacher will ask probing questions
to guide their thinking about the text.
Elaborate

How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a particular
aspect of this learning at a deep level?
How will students use higher order thinking at this stage? (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a what If
question)
How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will:

Teacher will ask students to identify the

significance of the theme and how it relates to

the larger picture of the text.
Co-Teaching Strategy

Student Will:
Student will do their best to discuss how the
theme is significant to the work as a whole.

What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy

What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?

How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

Teacher will ask guiding questions in order to help struggling students think about answers.
Evaluate

How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the Elaborate content)?
How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the assessment)?

Teacher Will:

Teacher will ask students to write a paragraph

discussing a specific themes progression
through the work, while using specific evidence
from the text.

Student Will:
Student will take out a piece of paper and write
a paragraph, discussing a theme as it
progresses through the novel, using specific
evidence from the text.

Co-Teaching Strategy

What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy

What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?

How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?

Students with lower writing competency will be assessed based on their ideas and use of text evidence, as
opposed to the quality of their writing.