(a) The English candidate demonstrates the ability to teach the state-adopted academic content standards for students in English-Language Arts.
For this lesson, I planned an 85-minute sophomore lesson revolving around analyzing an author's choice of utilizing literary devices–specifically foreshadowing–with the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. During the period, we listened to the audiobook of the short story, stopping periodically to discuss literary devices used and hypothesize what was to come. After a small activity involving explaining why chosen quotes were examples of foreshadowing, students then created a matchbook foldable to showcase their own example quotes of foreshadowing.
This particular lesson was chosen to display the ability of teaching the state-adopted academic content standard for sophomore English, focusing on the ability to demonstrate the student's understanding of foreshadowing in the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs. Students were asked to find a quote in the short story that displayed an instance of foreshadowing and then to explain how that moment is foreshadowing. The cross curricular element of art was included in the lesson to challenge students to depict their chosen quote in a handmade foldable.
There were two to three foldables that were unlike the sample and other classmates' foldables due to either not following the directions or getting ahead of the spoken instructions. Another issue that I ran into was not explicitly stating for students to indicate whether the quote is direct or indirect foreshadowing. Perhaps by having a physical example instead of the online instructions would have provided more insight to the completed works or by having a checklist for the students to follow along to could have provided extra guidance. However, I am impressed with the students' creativity shown in their work as well as the level of cognitive application of the standard to the short story.