Learning Experience Plan

Subject: ELA Grade level: 8th Grade

Unit: Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and pictures of hollis woods periods: 25

min

Topic: Similarities and Differences

Literacy Standards: RI.8.3 Analyze how a text makes connections among and
distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons,
analogies, or categories).

Learning Experience Outcomes Learning Experience Assessments

Students will : Do now
Analyze the characters of Alice and Venn diagram worksheet
Hollis by observing their dialogue, 35-50 word written summary
actions, inner thoughts and
interactions with other characters in
the story.
Compare the two characters based
on their observations throughout
the text
Support their ideas with contextual
evidence
Differentiation
Approaching On-level Beyond
For independent practice, For independent practice, Students will have to
students will be given the students will have the include within their
elements that should be choice of either summary of their
compared between Alice compeleting a Venn comparison an overall
and Hollis. For example, I diagram or a comparison message conveyed by the
would tell them to matrix to organize the two books which should
compare their similarities and conclude with an additional
relationships with the differences between the 2-3 sentences.
people/characters around two characters.
them, their personality,
the way they act, their
emotions, their class, and
their family life (which
could all be worked into a
comparison matrix).

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Curriculum Integration
The lesson incorporates technology by use of the powerpoint and smart board.
It asks students to look at their everyday lives and their relationships with others
to make sense of and interpret the ways in which the characters, Alice and Hollis
navigate through the books.
Material Procedures/Strategies
s/Resou
rcesPow 1. Students will complete a Do Now assignment, which will
erpoint read: In a few sentences, write the first words that come to
mind in describing Alice from Adventures of Alice in
Comput Wonderland and a few words describing Hollis from pictures
er of hollis woods. (Presuming that we would have read these
books together in class)
One
Worksh 2. Students will do a turn and talk and discuss what they
eet had written down and why. We will then bring it to a larger
discussion and write a few answers on the board.
White
board 3. We will then transition into a powerpoint presentation
that will review and analyze both Alice and Hollis, individually
Marker relating back to the text itself, which students will have
their book to look at themselves. The powerpoint includes
dialogue and pictures from both books.

4. After the presentation, I will pass around a worksheet of

a Venn Diagram, which students will fill out, comparing Alice
and Hollispointing out their similarities and differences.

5. After competing the worksheet, students will turn and

talk for a second time discussing their charts.

6. We will then bring it back to a larger discussion and I will

call on students to share some of their comparisons, which I
will fill in on the Venn diagram on the white board.

7. Afterwards, I will ask the students to write a 35-50 word

summary concluding the comparison they made, which will
conclude the lesson.

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Day 1

Sponge Activity (activity that will be done as students enter the room to get them into the
mindset of the concept to be learned)

Do Now Activity: In a few sentences, write the first words that come
to mind in describing Alice from Alice in Wonderland and a few
words describing Hollis from pictures of hollis woods.

Turn and talk

Anticipatory Set (focus question/s that will be used to get students thinking about the days
lesson)

Focus Question: We know that both Alice and Hollis take on a

journey in both books that weve read, however, how may these
journeys be different or similar?

Activating Prior Knowledge (what information will be shared with/among students to

connect to prior knowledge/experience )

I will say: Weve spoken about Alices journey through Wonderland as a

journey she herself chose to take by going into the rabbit hole. Do you
guys think Hollis journey was chosen or brought upon herself based on
your reading of the end of the book. How do the journeys these girls
experience define their character? Do their journeys unite them? Or do
they separate them in experience?

Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)

I will provide a powerpoint presentation, which the students can follow

along to and interact with by using their Adventures of Alice in
Wonderland and pictures of hollis woods books.

Powerpoint:
https://docs.google.com/a/manhattan.edu/presentation/d/1t2Lq8mQViV
nmZMvn8sD-CkAE8sP_Xwv1BmfRztKdPFw/edit?usp=sharing

Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the lesson)

Students will complete a worksheet of a Venn diagram

Students will turn and talk about their ideas after completion of
worksheet #1

Students will hand in a 35-50 written summary of their comparison.

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Resources:

Carroll, L. (1984). Alice in Wonderland. Bantam Classics.

Giff, P. R. (2004). Pictures of Hollis Woods. Yearling.

https://docs.google.com/a/manhattan.edu/presentation/d/1t2Lq8mQViV
nmZMvn8sD-CkAE8sP_Xwv1BmfRztKdPFw/edit?usp=sharing

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worksheet#1

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