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The Lesson Of The Muhlenberg Lesson Plan

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I will readily admit that I waited for the right lesson to compare to the Muhlenberg Lesson Plan. Finding all the elements of the Muhlenberg Lesson Plan in lessons throughout all of my fieldwork experiences would be difficult because for the most part teachers do not seem to do set induction or closure. I chose to do my comparison on a Macbeth lesson in Mrs. Butterbaugh’s tenth grade co-taught class. This was strictly an observed lesson, as Mrs. Butterbaugh does not do formal lesson plans. The unit title could be Renaissance Literature: Macbeth. It would work well as a comparison to the former unit on Medieval literature focused on Oedipus Rex. In my future class, I would do some activity to compare the two. The lesson title could be “Influencing Macbeth: Act I and Act II.” It was presented loosely as a two-part lesson, making connections in the second act to who is the strongest influence over Macbeth and how his guilt begins to play a role in his downfall; this knowledge base can be utilized throughout the rest of the play to scaffold the students toward Macbeth’s fatal flaw. The Pennsylvania State Standards and Common Core Standards cited would probably be:
CC.1.3.9–10.B: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
CC.1.3.9-10.C: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with

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