Lesson Plan
I designed this lesson plan in my first clinical at DeSoto High School. The class had been
reading Tess of the Dubervilles and The Awakening. I had the opportunity to teach the final
class period dealing with these two works. Feeling that the students were tired of Tess and The Awakening,
I brought in a small reading selection from Jonathon Kozol's Savage Inequalities. I felt the discussion
of Kozol and relating Kozol to these two novellas went beautifully.
Friday, 4-12-02
1. Grammar For Smart People exercise: Use of semi-colon.
2. Journal- Read Kozol: Pages: 137, 141, 152-155 before journaling,
then answer a couple of the following questions:
1. How would you feel if you went to a school like this?
2. What do you imagine are the reasons that there are these differences?
3. What are some possible solutions to these problems? Do you think the solutions proposed by the students are plausible?
4. Do you think it’s chance, or more than that, that segregation is an outcome of SES differences in school?
3. Class Discussion
Tess of the Dubervilles-
1. When did Tess’s social class affect her decisions?
2. When did it affect how she was treated? Examples…
??How would these students SES affect their decision or their ability to do things?
??How would it affect how people would treat them?
--How do stereotypes affect how we approach people? --Appearances say a lot: both true and false info…
The Awakening-
1. Do you thin that Edna’s final decision would have been different if she were poor?
2. How would her options have changed?
--Example, E. A. Poe, “The House of Usher”? Inbred to keep purity in family, same time period.