Date: Thursday, December 11, 2014

Subject: English/Language Arts

Grade: Grade 5

Goals/Objectives/Standards:
Montana Common Core State Standard:
-College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
-Key Ideas and Details
-Standard 3
-Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
National Educational Technology Standards for Students (Profile for Technology (ICT) Literate Students
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-11)):
-Standard 1: Creativity and Innovation
-Standard 2: Communication and Collaboration
-Standard 4: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
-Standard 6: Technology Operations and Concepts
Timeline/Structure of Lesson:
Time:

Opening/Framing the Lesson/Introduction/Early Assessment:

Monitor/Feedback:

20
minutes

After finishing reading The Westing Game, written by Ellen

Raskin, students will use their Classroom Response Systems, or
Clickers, to respond to a twenty question assessment prior to
the beginning of the lesson. Students will then be assigned one
of the sixteen heirs in the novel. Directions for all subsequent
assignments will be found on Edmodo. After being assigned an
heir, students will be expected to do an in-class character
analysis, followed by an out-of-class assignment where each
student is to create a PowToon Presentation of the character
traits of his or her assigned heir.

As a whole class, I will go over

the correct answers to the
twenty question assessment.

Time:

The Lesson Structure: Activities:

Monitor/Feedback:

20
minutes

Students will participate in a class discussion of character

traits for the sixteen heirs in the novel. Once finished with
the class discussion, students will log on to Edmodo to receive
directions for todays lesson. Students will then partner up to
create a mind-map character analysis of their selected heir
using BUBBL.US.

Students will save their mind

maps in the shared library
folder on Google Drive for
review as a class as a whole.

Time:

Closing/Assessment:

Monitor/Feedback:

15
minutes

Pairs of students will share their finished character analysis

mind maps in front of the class.

Students will present their

character analysis mind map in
groups of two, explaining each

Students will then draw out

of a hat one of the sixteen
heirs. There will be enough
students in the classroom for
each heir to be drawn twice.
Students will then partner
up.

Students will share their

finished products through
Edmodo, so that all students
can view each others mind
maps.

section of their mind map.

Students will be encouraged
to comment on each others
mind maps through Edmodo.
Time:

Homework:

Monitor/Feedback:

2 weeks
allowed
for
completion of
presentations

Directions will be posted on Edmodo as to instructions for each

student to create his or her PowToon Presentation on his or her
assigned heir. Students will be given a time frame of 2 weeks
to complete his or her PowToon Presentation of character
traits.

After completion of their

PowToon Presentation,
students will present their
presentation to the class.
Students will be encouraged
to comment on each others
PowToon Presentations
through Edmodo.

Self-Evaluation of the Lesson:

Class discussion
Resources/Materials:
-Classroom Response Systems students will use their Classroom Response Systems to respond to a twenty
question assessment
-Chromebook Lab students will log into their accounts and use all tools needed from here
-Edmodo students will find postings of assignment instructions
-BUBBL.US students will partner up to create character analysis mind maps of their assigned heirs
-PowToon students will create a character trait presentation on their assigned heirs as a homework
assignment