Where The Wild Things Are Lesson

Miss Lyons Eng 7 Lesson 11 Where the Wild Things Are Objectives. In this lesson 1. Students will hear a reading of “Where the Wild Things Are” 2. students will create their own monsters 3. Students will write a paragraph characterizing their monster Understandings. At the end of this lesson students will be able to 1. write a paragraph from the first or third person characterizing their monster 2. Illustrate their monster Assessment. Student achievement and understanding will be checked 1. Class participation 2. Effort 3. Characterizing paragraph Instructional Approach. 1. Journal 5 minutes 2. Read story 15 minutes 3. Discuss story 5 minutes 4. Postage stamps

Remainder of class HW: Finish postage stamps Skills to be emphasized. 1. creative writing 2. listening skills MA Frameworks: Standard 12: Fiction Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. • • •

Analyze the connections among setting, characterization, conflict, plot, and/or theme. Analyze characters’ personality traits, motivations, and interactions with others and give supporting evidence from their words, actions, or thoughts. Analyze the ways characters change or interact with others over time and give supporting evidence from the text.