Character Swap

Standard: ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE9-10RL10: By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. a. Apply grades 9–10 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work [e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare]”).
Learning Target(s):
Learning Target: Students will finish analyze character in a given text and present findings.
Opening Session
Warm Up: (Optional) Preview of test.			Activator: Watch Trailer for “Mean Girls”
Remediation Activity – Summary of play.
Work Session
Students will use character swap to analyze character in a given text.
Closing Session
Go over results so far.
Assessment Strategies
Data Collection – Assessment for Data Team – data from Metamorphosis Test. Observation of progress on translating.
Differentiation Plan
How will you differentiate today? Differentiation should reflect the following: extension, remediation, re-teaching, academic language development, acceleration, skill development, etc.
Types of Differentiation	X	Identify strategies used and modifications made. Must differentiate at least one area – content, process, or product) Be specific.
Content		Simplified. Use of extensive scaffolding. Highlighting. Explanation of vocabulary. Thinking maps – Bubble Map. Posters
Process		Flexible Grouping, slow down content, Assess responses. Move about room. Discuss responses. Example of Student Product
Product		Rising Action Graph
Methods to Differentiation	X	Identify strategies used and modifications made. Must differentiate at least one way – interest, readiness, or learning style. ) Be specific.
Interest		Relevance – to history and contemporary events. Template – student choice.
Readiness		Go over reading materials; remediation, posters. Leveled materials. Flexible grouping
Learning Style		Visual, Intra- and Interpersonal, use of visuals –video, Groups. Kinesthetic movement, highlighters
Specialized Instruction (SpEd Only)
To address the unique needs of the student that result from the student’s disability and To ensure access of the student to the general curriculum.
Methods to Specialization	X	Identify strategies used and modifications made. Must specialize in at least one way to correspond with your student’s needs – content, methodology, and/or delivery). Be specific.
Content		Visuals –pictures, Video, Group activity, Map, poster-sized materials. Material made for student individual needs. Pre-assessed weaknesses, Highlighted materials. Movie- Julius Caesar- 1953.
Methodology		Highlighters – color coded, kinesthetic and visuals, graphic organizers, flexible grouping activity, art activity, remediation of skills, focus on goals and objectives –kinesthetic, Higher order questioning, Summary of work, List of Character Names w/ description for major works, Template Remind students of personal objectives. Flexible group. Test preview.
Delivery		Discussion, Opinion, Evidence and examples. Written and oral. Student pairs.