Donna Petherbridge eci 511, Comprehensive Unit Plan, Summer II, 2003

Week Two:  Choices 

These stories focus on characters that must make a choice – can one avoid 

mortal peril?  And the other, a lifetime of pointless sacrifice? 

 

Lesson Title 

Understanding Plot: “

The Lady, or the Tiger?

” 

Suggested Grade Level 

English I, Grade 9 

Time 

90 minutes (possible in one class session with block schedule) 

Equipment Needed and 

Availability 

! 

Teaching computer, projector to project the information on the 

instructor computer 

! 

5 additional computer stations in the classroom  

! 

Computers have floppy disk drives 

! 

All computers have Microsoft PowerPoint. 

! 

Computers should have internet access to use Microsoft’s Online 

Clip Art gallery 

! 

Several copies of the Microsoft Office Handbook are available for 

groups to look at. 

! 

Plot

 handout 

! 

“The Lady, or the Tiger?” 

handout 

! 

Handout on using Microsoft’s Clip Art gallery online with 

instructions for inserting Clip Art into PowerPoint slides 

! 

One disk, with a blank label, is needed for each group. 

 

Prerequisite Skills in 

Subject Area One 

[Language Arts, English I] 

Students have completed reading the short story, “

The Lady, or the 

Tiger

.”  In the previous week’s lesson, students focused on 

characterization and setting in reading “

The Cask of Amontillado

” and 

“

The Most Dangerous Game

.”  In this week’s stories, the focus will be on 

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plot, with the earlier stories referred to during the lesson. 

 

Prerequisite Skills in 

Subject Area Two 

[Information Skills, Grade 

9] 

As ninth graders, students are expected to form and support opinions, and 

work to persuade others to their point of view.  Earlier in this unit, 

students spent time doing this as they voted for the scariest setting and 

cruelest villain.  This lesson will expand on this skill, asking students to 

form an opinion in their groups and to be prepared to support their 

opinion with evidence.  

 

Prerequisite Skills in 

Technology: 

Students have already spent time using the computer for earlier 

assignments that have addressed the following skills: 

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Using Microsoft Excel in this unit. 

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Using Microsoft’s online Clip Art in an earlier lesson in the year. 

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Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations earlier in the 

year. 

 

Learning Objectives in 

Subject Area (s) [Language 

Arts and Information 

Skills]