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- ELA 2019 G8:M1:U2:L8
Write a Narrative: Plan Character and Setting
In this lesson, daily learning targets, ongoing assessment.
- Technology and Multimedia
Supporting English Language Learners
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- ELA 2019 Grade 8
- ELA 2019 G8:M1
- ELA 2019 G8:M1:U2
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Focus Standards: These are the standards the instruction addresses.
- W.8.3a, W.8.5
Supporting Standards: These are the standards that are incidental—no direct instruction in this lesson, but practice of these standards occurs as a result of addressing the focus standards.
- RL.8.4, RL.8.10, W.8.4, W.8.10, SL.8.1, L.8.4, L.8.6
- I can demonstrate understanding of the excerpt of chapter 17 of Summer of the Mariposas .
- I can create a character profile for my new, modernized monster. (W.8.3a)
- I can use the original settings in Summer of the Mariposas to create an appropriate setting for my narrative. (W.8.4)
- Opening A: Entrance Ticket (RL.8.4, L.8.4a)
- Work Time C: Character and Setting planner (W.8.3a, W.8.5)
- Prepare Entrance Ticket: Unit 2, Lesson 8.
- Strategically pair students for partner work in Work Time B.
- Ensure there is a copy of Entrance Ticket: Unit 2, Lesson 8 at each student's workspace.
- Post the learning targets and applicable anchor charts (see Materials list).
Tech and Multimedia
- Continue to use the technology tools recommended throughout previous modules to create anchor charts to share with families; to record students as they participate in discussions and protocols to review with students later and to share with families; and for students to listen to and annotate text, record ideas on note-catchers, and word-process writing.
Supports guided in part by CA ELD Standards 8.I.A.1, 8.I.A.3, 8.I.A.4, and 8.II.A.1.
Important Points in the Lesson Itself
- To support ELLs, this lesson provides guidance in planning a narrative, incorporates pair work and peer feedback into the writing process, and uses a model graphic organizer to give students an example of how to approach planning their narrative.
- ELLs may find it challenging to engage with planning their narratives, as it is the first time they will be carrying out this kind of creative task. Encourage students to rely on Model Narrative: "Peuchen," Character and Setting: "The Peuchen," and previous notes on setting, theme, and character in Summer of the Mariposas to help guide their planning work.
- character profile, dissipated, setting (A)
(A): Academic Vocabulary
(DS): Domain-Specific Vocabulary
- Close Readers Do These Things anchor chart (one for display; from Unit 1, Lesson 4, Opening B)
- Academic word wall (one for display; from Unit 1, Lesson 2, Opening A)
- Chart paper of Spanish words (one for display; from Unit 1, Lesson 2, Work Time A)
- Text Guide: Summer of the Mariposas (for teacher reference)
- Work to Become Ethical People anchor chart (example for teacher reference)
- Work to Become Ethical People anchor chart (one for display; from Unit 1, Lesson 1, Work Time D)
- Summer of the Mariposas (text; from Unit 1, Lesson 1)
- Vocabulary logs (one per student; from Unit 1, Lesson 2, Opening A)
- Model Narrative: "Peuchen" (one per student; from Unit 2, Lesson 6, Work Time A)
- Note-catcher with research notes (one per student; from Unit 2, Lesson 7, Work Time B)
- Entrance Ticket: Unit 2, Lesson 8 (answers for teacher reference)
- Character and Setting: "The Peuchen" (one to display)
- Entrance Ticket: Unit 2, Lesson 8 (one per student)
- Sticky notes (one per student)
- Synopsis: Summer of the Mariposas , Chapter 17
- Character and Setting: "The Peuchen" (one per student)
- Character and Setting planner (one per student)
- Homework: Text Dependent Questions: Character and Setting (one per student; from Homework Resources)
Each unit in the 6-8 Language Arts Curriculum has two standards-based assessments built in, one mid-unit assessment and one end of unit assessment. The module concludes with a performance task at the end of Unit 3 to synthesize students' understanding of what they accomplished through supported, standards-based writing.
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Homework: Text-Dependent Questions: Plan a Plot
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Homework: Text-Dependent Questions: Plan a Plot (Answers for Teacher Reference) Document. Included in. Thumbnails. Document Outline. Attachments. Previous. Highlight all Match case. Whole words.
A. Text-Dependent Questions Using Homework: Text Dependent Questions: Plan a Plot, students answer selected response questions and constructed response questions about the plots in Summer of the Mariposas. B. Independent Research Reading Students read for at least 20 minutes in their Independent Research Reading text.
C. Practice: Plan Plot – W.8.5 (15 minutes) 3. Closing and Assessment. A. Pair-Share – SL.8.1 (5 minutes) 4. Homework. A. Text-Dependent Questions: Using Homework: Text Dependent Questions: Plan a Plot, students answer selected response questions and constructed response questions about the plots in Summer of the Mariposas.
W.8.3a - Work Time C: Students will plan the monster character profile and setting for their new scene. This will prepare students to engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters. W.8.5 - Work Time C: Students will practice developing and strengthening writing as needed by ...
Imagine Learning Classroom home. Home Log in. Homework: Text-Dependent Questions: Plan a Plot