Lesson Plan for Reading Guide Ch.

1 & 2
Title of activity: Reading-Guide Chapter 1
Concept covered in activity: Begin Reading-Guide Questions for Chapter 1
Grade level or other prerequisites for activity: 11th Grade
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and
information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of
content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as
well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters
uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the
course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex
account; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the
choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution)
contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6
Analyze a case in which grasping a point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated
in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
Learning objectives:
Students will be able to understand the autobiographical first chapter of Slaughterhouse
Five by completing the Chapter 1 Reading-Guide questions in preparation for a discussion on
Tuesday.
Materials: iPads, book

Instructional planning (notes about gathering or preparing materials ahead of time AND advance
organizers for students: handouts, overheads, slides, board notes)
Procedure/activity
Student Activity

Teacher Activity

Engage

Students will discuss their first impressions

of chapter 1 and 2.

First: Through the blog: What is one

question you have about chapters one and
two? Is there anything you are interested
in learning more about?

Explore

Students will open the document for the

themes that will be addressed in the novel.

Ask students to open the themes

document that is posted into Schoology.

Explain

After discussing the themes and going over

their definitions, students will begin working
on the Chapter 1 Reading-Guide questions.

After discussing the themes, students will

open the Reading Guide Questions for
Chapter 1

Elaborate

Students will pull quotes to answer the

reading-guide questions at length. By
answering these questions, students will have
a better understanding of Vonnegut and his
role in the text

Walk around and make sure students are

working on their reading-guide questions
and answer any questions that come up.

Evaluate

Students will need to submit their chapter 1

reading-guide questions by the end of class.

Students will turn in their reading guide

question to the assignment box in
Schoology.

Assessment
Formative (informal and/or formal): Discussion of how they are understanding the book,
going to each individual table and asking for understanding, submitting the reading-guide
questions for a grade.
Summative (usually formal): Short-Write #1 on Friday
Rubrics for grading
Anticipated misconceptions/alternative conceptions: Students not understanding that it is the
author who is speaking in the first chapter.
Accommodations/modifications of activity for any special needs students (special education,
ELL, and gifted/talented: Audio book for students who have a hard time understanding the text.