3 E's: Lesson Plan

In this lesson plan, To Kill a Mockingbird is used to help students understand perspec tives of narrations in text. The objectives of the lesson plan are to define point of view and understand the importance that it plays in writing and write a story in someone else’s point of view. There is a handout that is available to give to students, and the lesson consists of two sessions with extensions. The quotation from Mockingbird is presented the first day and students discuss what the quote means; “You never reall understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Harper 36). The second half includes studentswriting narratives about the owners of shoes and creating their own story of walking in someone else’s shoes in their notebooks. To enhance this activity, you could have students create a story book using Microsoft Word or a storybook program like Storybook Weaver. Powerpoint could work in this situation as well. To make it more effective for everybody, students could present their books by overhead projection to the rest of the class, which allows them to have not only the technology incorporated, but also skills in speaking in front of groups.
Lesson Plan: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=265
This is for Standard 3 in English/Language Arts grade 9: READING: Comprehension and Analysis of Literary Text.