This document outlines learning objectives and standards for a lesson plan covering reading, listening, speaking, viewing, and writing skills. The objectives are to analyze how ideas build in a text, recognize tone from examples, understand emphasis in speeches, analyze how images convey messages, and identify persuasive language. Students will apply these skills by creating an anti-bullying PSA or poster to educate their peers, demonstrating their ability to teach others what they have learned.

1. ARE YOU REALLY AN
INNOCENT BYSTANDER?
Inaction is Still an Action

2. THE ELA SKILLS WE WILL LEARN:
• Reading
• Progression of Action
• Listening
• Recognition of Tone
• Speaking
• Understanding the Points of Emphasis on Words
• Viewing
• Imagery Choice
• Writing
• Choice of Words in Argument

3. READING
• Objective: By the end of today’s lesson, students will be able to read a non-
fiction, informational article with a complex set of ideas. They will choose two or more
central ideas of the article to connect how the ideas build upon each other and
subsequently will summarize the text.
• Reading Standard Used:
• 3. Focusing on “Analyze[ing] the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to
develop and relate elements of a story or drama [mainly] how the action is ordered.”

4. LISTENING
• Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to recognize a speaker’s tone
after viewing examples of PSA’s and other verbal excerpts. Students will apply their
understanding of tone in a clip by writing a summary regarding which attitudes they heard
in the clip and what clues in the speaker’s tone of voice gave these emotions away.
• Speaking and Listening Standard Used:
• 3. Focusing on “Evaluate[ing] a speaker’s …tone used.”

5. SPEAKING
• Objective: By the end of today, students will be able to determine the points of emphasis
in a speech, dialogue, etc. and understand how these points of emphasis function to
present a complex set of ideas in non-fiction, informational texts (e.g.
newspaper/periodical/website). Students will demonstrate their understanding of the
complex ideas in a given article by marking the article with points of emphasis for
homework and then reading a portion of this allowed during the next class period.
• Speaking and Listening Standard Used:
• 3. Focusing on “Evaluate[ing] a speaker’s points of emphasis.”

6. VIEWING
• Objective: By the end of today, students will recognize the idea that images are chosen
for a specific reason, to invoke a specific response from their audience, through viewing
multiple imagery clips (PSAs, commercials, ads, movie clips). Students will demonstrate
their understanding that visual images convey messages by writing an analysis of how the
image(s) used for an ad function for homework.
• Speaking and Listening Standard Used:
• 5. Focus on “Make[ing] strategic use of digital media [images] in presentations to
enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.”

7. WRITING
• Objective: By the end of today’s lesson, students will be able to locate the persuasive
words within an argument and understand how these words are being used to effect the
audience. Students will demonstrate this understanding by producing an argument chart
that details an article’s argument and pulls out persuasive word usage that the students
will go on to detail why these words were chosen and how they are used.
• Writing Standard Used:
• 3d. Focusing on “Use[ing] precise words and phrases…to convey a vivid picture of
the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.”

8. CULMINATING PROJECT
• Students will work together, utilizing the skills that they learned throughout the unit to
create either a PSA or poster as part of an “Anti-Bullying” campaign within the school.
These PSAs and posters created by students will be presented around the
school, working to educate fellow students. Thus, the students become the
teachers, learning to implement their new-found skills in a new way and transferring their
knowledge to other areas of their lives (presentations, readings, teaching others, etc.)
• The skills taught in this unit plan will work to help students better understand reading and
writing for a purpose, be it reading a novel for school or reading a website for fun.