Lesson+Plan+Persepolis


 * Sara Eden Cozzens**
 * Beth Yingst**
 * Final Lesson Plan: Persepolis**

**Stage 1: Desired Results**


 * Established Goals:**
 * Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (This requirement is from the Core Curriculum/State Standards for grade 8)


 * Understandings:**
 * Students will understand the universal feelings and commonalities that occur in all children, worldwide. By reading texts from other cultures, they will encounter main characters that have characteristics they can relate to. In //Persepolis//, there is the characteristic of a rebellious nature. Students will be able to see they share universal characteristics with people from different cultures. They will also recognize what differences may occur within these characteristics and the factors those differences are a result of.


 * Essential Questions:**
 * What are the common characteristics of any childhood?
 * Why are these universals timeless?


 * Students will know..**
 * Universal characteristics of all childhoods and how and why they may be differ cross-culturally and/or because of experience


 * Students will be able to...**
 * Dissolve ignorances and develop cross-cultural respect, intrigue, and appreciation
 * Read and relate to texts from other cultures

**Stage 2: Assessment Evidence**
 * Performance Tasks**
 * Movie Trailer Project (Group or Individual)
 * Writtern Test/Quiz


 * Other Evidence**
 * Character Letters
 * Relational journal
 * Freewrites/Prompts

**Stage 3: Learning Plan**


 * Learning Activities:**
 * W-**Expose our students to the background and culture of the story; Give them a background on graphic novels; Clue them in to the author's life and career
 * H-**Show a video clip of the Persepolis movie so the story can come to life
 * E-**Research historical/current news connections; show actual non-cartoon news clips of the war and the culture; compare to secondary text; ask them to complete an alternate text of the existing drawings or vice-versa
 * R-**Relation of own life experiences through journaling: ask them, "Could this happen at another time/place? Has it?" Use Reading Protocol technique at set durations throughout the entire story. Students will think about the text before, during and after reading.
 * E-**Teacher/Student rubrics for self and teacher grading of various projects, Create a movie trailer, Write main character letters or write a plot poem.


 * Connect to Other Texts:** Attitude change/Identity shift and maturity of a child (The Cay, Enrique's Journey, Absolutely True Diary); Exposure to other cultures (The Good Earth, Enrique's Journey, Absolutely True Diary, The Cay); In Search of "Truths" (Absolutely True Diary).