Direct Instruction Lesson Plan

Teachers: Subject:
Lia, Bailey, Shay, Haley, Bryan 11 and 12 grade English
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Common Core State Standards:

11-12.RL.7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating
how each version interprets the source text.

Teacher Technology Standards: Facilitator

Student Technology Standards: Creative Communicator
Objective (Explicit):
Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate the concept of
love within poetry by creating a haiku devoted to love.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
¨ Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
¨ Provide exemplary student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
¨ Assign value to each portion of the response.

We will measure the students' ability to write a haiku. This will be assessed by the
students' ability to present their haiku to the class.

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: Explore different aspects of love by correctly putting together an original haiku.

Key vocabulary: Materials:

 Haiku  Any form of technology: laptop, phone, etc.
 Love  Paper
 Syllable  Pencil
Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
¨ How will you activate student interest?
¨ How will you connect to past learning?
¨ How will you present the objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?
¨ How will you communicate its importance and make the content relevant to your students?

We will open up our lesson by asking students to join a ‘PollEverywhere’ that poses
the question “What comes to mind when you hear the word love”?

Instructional Input Teacher Will: Student Will:

¨ How will you ¨ What will students be doing to actively
model/explain/demonstrate all capture and process the new material?
knowledge/skills required of the ¨ How will students be engaged?
objective?
¨ What types of visuals will you use?
¨ How will you address
misunderstandings or common student
errors?
¨ How will you check for
understanding?
¨ How will you explain and model
behavioral expectations?
¨ Is there enough detail in this section
so that another person could teach it?

 Hand out a reference sheet  Participate in the discussion and

 Define haiku volunteer answers when prompted
 Explore some examples  Eye contact
 Check for understanding by
asking students, “what is a
haiku?”
 Explain our expectation that
students will create an
original love haiku

Co-Teaching Strategy
¨ Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

N/A
 Differentiation Strategy
¨ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
¨ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

N/A

Guided Practice Teacher Will: Student Will:

¨ How will you ensure that all students
have multiple opportunities to practice
new content and skills?
¨ What types of questions can you ask
students as you are observing them
practice?
¨ How/when will you check for
understanding?
¨ How will you provide guidance to all
students as they practice?
¨ How will you explain and model
behavioral expectations?
¨ Is there enough detail in this section
so that another person could facilitate
this practice?
¨ How will students practice all
knowledge/skills required of the objective, with
your support, such that they continue to
internalize the sub-objectives?
¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How will you elicit student-to-student
interaction?
¨ How are students practicing in ways that
align to independent practice?

 Read aloud a Haiku ini  Follow along and actively

orde participate with the review on
 Review syllables in the reference sheet.
each line
 Allow for questions

Co-Teaching Strategy
¨ Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

N/A
 Differentiation Strategy
¨ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
¨ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
¨ How can you utilize grouping strategies?

N/A

Independent Teacher Will: Student Will:

Practice ¨ How will you plan to coach and
correct during this practice?
¨ How will you provide opportunities
for remediation and extension?
¨ How will you clearly state and model
academic and behavioral
expectations?
¨ Did you provide enough detail so
that another person could facilitate the
practice?
¨ How will students independently practice the
knowledge and skills required by the objective?
¨ How will students be engaged?
¨ How are students practicing in ways that
align to assessment?
¨ How are students using self-assessment to
guide their own learning?
¨ How are you supporting students giving
feedback to one another?

 Instruct students to  Students will create an

create an original original haiku about love.
haiku about love  Ask for help if needed.
 Walk around, ask
questions, give
clarifications

Co-Teaching Strategy
¨ Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

N/A

Differentiation Strategy
¨ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
¨ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

N/A

Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:

¨ How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
¨ Why will students be engaged?

Students will read their haiku devoted to love aloud to the class. They will be engaged in this activity because they are
practicing expressing personal emotions with their peers. This also correlates to proper public speaking mannerisms and
giving respectful feedback.
 Quick Reference Sheet
What is a Haiku?
Haiku: A Japanese type of poetry that can be written on many themes but
consists of only 3 lines and a total of 17 syllables.

Formatting of a Haiku:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables

Examples:
Love is like winter
Warm breaths thaw cold hearts until
One day the spring comes

Wherever you go
My heart will follow you there.
Now and forever.

Mom’s love is tender

beautiful like red hot sauce
comforting my soul