Sample Lesson Plan for Multimedia

 

(You may substitute any text for the one given.  Also, your objectives might differ depending on the focus of your class.)

 

 

Lesson Topic:

 

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and the Great Vowel Shift

 

Lesson Goals/Objectives:

 

To allow students to connect with a text in an unfamiliar language by understanding the changes that the language has gone through.

 

 

Readings/Preparation Materials:

 

Students should have already read the General Prologue.

 

 

What is Required of the Instructor Before the Class Meets:

 

  1. Look at Melinda Menzer’s Great Vowel Shift site. 
  2. Most likely, this will be an assignment your students need to complete outside of class.  Allow time for them to do so.
  3. Consider any technical difficulties your students might encounter and prepare for it.
  4. Find a way for students to access this site easily.  Either link to it from your class web page, or write down the URL and bring it to class for your students.  You might include the URL in the assignment you give to your students.

 

Segment #1 of the assignment:  Have your students look at the GVS site.

 

Segment #2:  Ask your students to respond to the site either in written form, through class discussion, or through a quiz to ensure that they have interacted with the site.

 

Segment #3:  Ask your students to consider how their understanding of the Great Vowel Shift affects their understanding of Chaucer’s language.

 

 

 

 

Students will need to:

 

  1. Complete the assignment by looking at the GVS site.
  2. Complete the evaluative activity the instructor assigns.
  3. Consider how completing the assignment affected their understanding of and reading of Chaucer.

 

The instructor will need to:

 

  1. Check up on the students’ progress, if they are completing the assignment outside of class.
  2. Be available for questions, should they arise.
  3. Realize that there may be difficulties arising from the GVS site’s reliance on Quicktime.