YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

English

Secondary Level

Tenth Grade

STANDARDS & EXPECTATIONS

Listening and Speaking 10.4

Expresses thoughts and opinions to evaluate text, debate current events, concepts, and literary elements; makes inferences, as well as draws conclusions from listening to a variety of texts, performances, and multimedia sources.

OBJECTIVES

Conceptual:

Having concluded reading the story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the students will be able to explain the most important terms and events from the story for the upcoming exam.

OBJECTIVES

Procedural:

Confronted with a series of debate questions about the story, the students will demonstrate that they are able to develop appropriate answers to answer the questions with the help of their peers.

OBJECTIVES

Attitudinal:

Finished the activity of the group debate questions, the students will collaborate with their peers in clarifying doubts and recalling what was understood.

CONCEPTS DISCUSSED

•Vocabulary Words•Author’s Biography•Plot of the Story

Reflection

of the

Day!

“The nice thing

about teamwork is

that you always

have others on your

side.”

- Margaret Carty

INITIAL ACTIVITY

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY

Step 1

After having read the reflection of the importance and benefits of group work, the students were assigned into groups of six to

begin the debate game.

PICTURE

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY

Step 2

The rules of the debate game were discussed; each member of the groups could only volunteer twice in answering the debate.

If the answer was incorrect, the same question would be asked to a member of the following group. The group that answered

correctly received a point.

PICTURES

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY

Step 3

Once the students have finished answering the debate questions the points of each group was added. The group with the most points was announced. Students collaborated with their groups in filling out a KWL chart.

PICTURES

ASSESSMENTCategory 4 3 2 1

Follow Instructions 

Student was able to follow all the instructions.

Student was able to follow most the instructions.

Student was able to follow some of the instructions.

Student follows none of the instructions.

Group collaboration

Always shares with, listens to, and supports the efforts of the members in the group.

Often shares with, listens to, and supports the efforts of the members in the group.

Rarely shares with, listens to, and supports the efforts of the members in the group.

Does not share with, listens to, and supports the efforts of the members in the group.

Student Participation

Excellent participation

Great participation

Good participation.

Poor participation.

Answered in Complete Sentences

Student was able to answer in complete sentences.

Student translated when answering in complete sentences.

Student struggled when answering incomplete sentences.

Student was not able to answer in complete sentences.

Knowledge Gained

Complete Mastery of topic.

Good mastery of topic.

Little mastery of topic.

No mastery of top