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Lesson 1 – Logs
Teaching Focus: Diagnostic Assessment. This lesson requires student to activate any
prior knowledge they have of Peter Pan. Students will be introduced to the idea of
keeping a log throughout the unit.
Curriculum
Expectation
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Space
Materials &
Prep.
Drama B2.1 (express personal responses and make connections…)
Reading 1.5 (Making Inferences/Interpreting Texts)
Reading 1.6 (Extending Understanding)
Reading 1.8 (Responding to and Evaluating Texts)
Writing 1.2 (Developing Idea
Writing 2.2 (Voice)
Regular classroom set-up
Notebooks (provided or made by the students), Handout #1
Classroom Activities:
Whole group discussion
Keeping/writing a log (record of a journey)
Prior Knowledge:
Students should know that a log is a record of a journey rather than a journal (which
may just express feelings) or a notebook (which may just record facts).
Lesson:
Tell students that they are about to begin a study of the play Peter Pan and that a
central part of this study will be to keep a log of their journey. Define log. Who keeps
logs Establish its importance from day one and set firm expectations for keeping the
log throughout the unit. (You may want to set up an anchor chart for what makes a
good log.) Distribute Handout 1 (The Log). Talk through it. Answer questions.
Emphasize that logs are an ongoing assignment. Tell students to make a log entry
after every lesson, even if you don’t write out a specific log entry question for them that
day.
Model Entries: Create and read some exemplars of model entries for the students so
they know exactly what you are looking for in the entry. (There is a rubric for
summative log evaluation in the additional materials section of this unit.)
Write: For their first log entry, ask students to write questions about plays in general,
about Peter Pan, about the author, about the time it was written in, about the unit
(What they think they know, what they would like to know, etc.). Have them share their
responses with an elbow partner.
Respond: Invite students to read entries aloud. See if they can answer one another’s
questions.
Peter Pan Study Guide 4
Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2010