Sample Lesson Plans 50-minute Comparative Literature class on Rachilde’s novel The Juggler

3.3. Class debrief of group work (8-10 minutes)
4. Check for understanding (10-12 minutes)
4.1. Discussion: 
“So how can we understand Rachilde’s nickname ‘Mademoiselle Baudelaire’? As praise, 
irony, condemnation?” (If no time, ask students to write for a minute, then discuss answers next 
time.)
5. Sum up main points and preview next class (the question of love in the novel) (3-5 minutes)
________________________________
1
Submitted by Stiliana Milkova, CRLT

---

41
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
Sample Lesson Plans Continued
80-minute Biology discussion on “prokaryote gene regulation”
2
 
Goal for student learning: 
To identify the structure and regulation mechanism of the lac operon and trp operon by using a role-play 
activity.
Materials: 
Lecture and discussion notes.
1. In-class quiz on previous three lectures (5 min).
2. Review and role-play set-up (20 min).
2.1 Review the structure of the lac and trp operon (7 min). 
Draw the structure on the board for refer-
ence and review the biological process and regulation of lac operon.
2.2 Ask the students to come to the board in pairs to complete the figure with important compo-
nent molecules (5 min).
•
If the students can successfully draw the pathway, ask another student to talk through the pathway again.
•
If the students have difficulty drawing the pathway, the other students or the GSI could help them to figure 
out the pathway.
2.3 Review the trp operon mechanism (8 min).
•
Ask students to work in groups of 3-4 people each for 5 min to talk through how this operon is being regu-
lated while referring to the structure on the board. (Instructions: discuss how the trp operon responds to 
environment with/without tryptophan, what proteins are involved, and how they interact with each other). 
•
To debrief, ask someone to talk through the trp operon mechanism (3 min).