Hi David,
Congratulations for being able to keep everything straight in your head. There aren't many outstanding instructors that can do that. For the rest of us that need to have things planned out and in order the use of lesson plans are a critical way of bringing order to the learning sequence.
I have over 300 students every 12 weeks so with this volume of students plus all the assignments, field trips, guest speakers and content having lesson plans really help me to be able to stay on target with my courses.
Gary