Name: Heather Zins

Grade Level: 9
School: Brandon Valley High School
Date: 4-11-2017
Time: 1:58-2:40
Reflection from prior lesson: We are beginning a new short story today so we will be beginning
from scratch. The class just finished up with Romeo and Juliet and they enjoyed it.
Lesson Goal(s)/ Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3.c Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they
build on one another to create a coherent whole.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development,
organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific
expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared
writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to
display information flexibly and dynamically.
Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to create a paragraph with proper capitalization and
punctuation including five to seven sentences explaining their collage. Students can use
technology to create a collage about what they would do if they won the lottery.
Materials Needed: Student computers, copy of the story for each student, vocab notecards for
each student

Contextual Factors/ Learner Characteristics: There are three students in this class who are all
in 9th grade. They are all on an IEP and have qualified in reading. They are a hard-working class
but tend to get off topic sometimes and stray away from what they need to do. It is easy to get
them back on task with a little redirection.
The Lesson
1. Introduction (5 minutes)
The school will be doing state testing so the classes will be a little shortened today. I will
begin by introducing the story that we will be reading called The Lottery. I will ask the
students what it means to win the lottery. After the students have given their answers I
will ask if winning the lottery means something different to one person than it does to
another.

2. Content Delivery (30 minutes)

Before getting into our activity I will be going over the vocab words with the students. I
will give them note cards and on the front, they will write the word and on the back they
will write the definition and draw a picture to help them remember the word. Depending
on time limits we will only go over half of the words and finish the rest the next day.
 After we have gone over the vocab words I will have the students make a collage on their
computers with pictures or words from the internet about what they would do if they won
the lottery. They will also have to write a paragraph underneath of it explaining their
collage, what they would do if they won the lottery, and what winning the lottery may
mean to someone else.
Vocab words: assembled, civic, conducted, constructed, consulted, perfunctory,
discarded, disengaged, jovial, paraphernalia

3. Closure (5 minutes)
We will have the students share what they would do if they won the lottery. We will also
review the vocab words they worked on. Before class is over I will explain to the students
that we will find out when we begin reading the story they will find out what kind of
lottery they are talking about in this story.

Assessments Used
The students will be assessed on the paragraphs they write as well as their explanation of their
collage.
Differentiated Instructions
If the student is struggling with their vocab cards they will be able to just draw a picture to help
them remember. I will also tell students who are struggling with the paragraph that they can write
three to five sentences instead
Resources
The Lottery in the Retold American Classics book