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 * Unit Plan - "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" **


 * Lesson Plan #4 **


 * Unit: Perks of Being a Wallflower **


 * Standards: **


 * 1) CC.1.3.8.C.Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
 * 2) CC.1.3.9.10.C.Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
 * 3) CC.1.3.6.C.Describe how a particular story or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes, as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution

**Objectives: **
1. Students will be able to identify ways in which language varies among different genres. 2. Students will be able to identify ways in which language shapes perception. [], PowerPoint. **Materials used:** Perks of Being a Wallflower, computer.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Resources: Perks of Being a Wallflower, YouTube clip: **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bell Ringer: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><range type="comment" id="459405654_3">Pass back student work from last class. Have students reflect on the information they provided for how each character impacted Charlie and how Charlie has impacted them. Tell students to watch the following clip and reflect on how others impact us, our language, and our behavior. </range id="459405654_3">After clip, explain how people often change their behavior and language based on how they believe they will be perceived. Explain that though there are not instances of characters changing their vernacular, their are instances within the circle Charlie joins there are instances of insider experience. Charlie begins to talk like his friends and at times act like his friends thinking this will bring him to the inside. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Lesson Outline:

>> Passage 2: pages 52-53 start on second paragraph. Charlie talks about "glory days" >> <range type="comment" id="459405654_5">Passage 3: pages 23 Charlie describes Craig.</range id="459405654_5"> >> Passage 4: page 45-46 Charlie's brother and sister's fight in the car. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Literature Circle Activity(click here for more details)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bell Ringer (5 minutes-12:30-12:35) **
 * Pass back student work from last class
 * Students will reflect on the information they put on these sheets.
 * Students will watch clip about how other people change their actions based on others perceptions of what they should be.
 * Teachers will explain that though there are not instances of characters changing their vernacular, their are instances within the circle Charlie joins there are instances of insider experience. Charlie begins to talk like his friends and at times act like his friends thinking this will bring him to the inside.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Close Readings (Large Group) (25 minutes- 12:35-1:00) **
 * Students will <range type="comment" id="459405654_4">read aloud selected passages from the novel</range id="459405654_4">. Passage 1: page...23?(electronic copy) Bill--Using vocabulary words.
 * Why does Bill encourage Charlie to using a wider range of vocabulary words?
 * What is Charlie's take on learning and using new vocabulary?
 * What does Charlie mean when he says "glory days" ?
 * When Charlie says "the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are" later he says he wants to make sure to tell his kids that "they are as happy as I look in my old photographs" why do you think he feels his father looks happier in his old photographs than he is? Why do you think it is important for Charlie to tell his children they are as happy as he was as a teen? Do you think this says anything about Charlie's character and why Stephen Chbosky wrote this story?
 * How does Charlie use language to influence our perception of himself, Craig, and Sam,?
 * How can we apply this concept of the influence that language has to our own lives? What does this make you think about in regards to yourself and the way in which you use language?
 * What role does Charlie play in this scene? How does his participation effect his character?
 * Chbosky has Charlie use's phrases like "first-middle-last" name. Why? How does this language shape our perception of Charlie?
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Lit Circles: 10 mins (1-1:10) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will form groups of 3-4.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Every student will receive a transcript of a scene from the movie Perks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will be assigned a character from the script, and will read aloud the passage given
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Instructor will direct conversation based upon discussion questions
 * Assessment:
 * Students will hand in their responses to their literature circle questions at the end of class as an "exit pass."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Homework Description (10 minutes - 1:10-1:20)
 * //<span style="background-color: #aaffaa; color: #008800; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: inherit;">Perks of Being a Wallflower //<span style="background-color: #aaffaa; color: #008800; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: inherit;">Tumblr: Letters to Charlie
 * <span style="background-color: #aaffaa; color: #008800; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: inherit;">After browsing through # //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"> LetterstoCharlie //<span style="background-color: #aaffaa; color: #008800; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: inherit;">on Tumblr, Students will be responsible for using the Teaching Communication's <range type="comment" id="459405654_7">Tumblr page (created by David) to post 2 letters to Charlie.</range id="459405654_7">