Miss Francis

     I'm sure you've been able to see through my other pages and lesson plans that I like to use a mix of cooperative learning, lecture, and independent practice, with a healthy dollop of technology thrown into my instruction technique. Below are extra lesson plans and worksheets that I've used over the years and have worked very well in the classroom. Take a peek and see what I have done!

 

 

My Shakespearean Essay

While reading Shakespeare's Macbeth and studying the literary elements that The Bard used in his plays, my seniors were to write an essay in the same structure. Below is the worksheet I used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The Garden Party" questions

I created a unit for my eleventh grade honors English class during student teaching that hadn't been used before. The class was actually ahead in their work and my cooperating teacher and I found ourselves with two weeks where we could introduce a myriad of authors, ideas, and themes to these advanced students. One of the works I had them read was Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party." We had a round-table discussion on the work as well as these questions the students answered as they read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Death and the Miser" symbols lesson

     As a part of the standardized testing preparation, I reviewed common symbols in literature. But for this particular lesson, I used a piece of art to demonstrate how symbols can be used universally. I took my students to the computer lab and they were to complete a webquest on the given piece of art and discover the symbols used. The materials I used are below.

 

 

 

 

 

Research Project

    During their PSSA testing, my eleventh grade students were given the novel "The Da Vinci Code" to read. The school had set forth a "no homework during testing" rule and this was the only thing they were allowed to work on in between tests. Once the testing was over, my cooperating teacher and I did several projects with them regarding the text, including a mini-research project, which you can find the link to below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antigone Debate

    My high school sophomores read Antigone during my time at Slippery Rock High School, and to show the author's purpose for writing this work, I had them debate on the protagonist's punishment. Click below to see my prompt that I gave the students.