How does culture, time and place affect Salva’s identity?

Today, we will be acquiring background knowledge about the big idea of “surviving challenging environments.” We will also build our background knowledge about the

historical context of our first novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park.

Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 3C-Day September 14, 2017D-Day September 15, 2017

Do Now

Learning Target Tracker –

– I can make connections between two texts, ALWTW by Linda Sue Park, and the non-fiction article “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” during an academic circle protocol.

– I can analyze how Linda Sue Park develops Salva’spoint of view and his character by close reading the non-fiction article “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War.”

Do Now

Copy the priority learning target on your LT tracker.

Building background Sudan Civil War video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIPj3DsdnnA

Class Agenda – September 14 & 15, 2017

• Do-Now: LT Tracker, 5 min video and purpose of learning targets 10

• ALWTW Close Read “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” 40– CR focus: gisting sections and making connections to ALWTW

– Teacher review of gisting and purpose of gisting 10

– Independent Practice of CR gisting and making connections to ALWTW 10

– Be ready to participate in an Academic Circle protocol based on what you have learnred about Nya and Salva’s culture 20

• Exit Ticket (12 min): ALWTW read summary of chapter 2 & 3, and respond text-dependent question: How Salva is character is impacted by his culture?

Things Close Readers Do …

• Get the gist – figure out what the text is mostly about

• Re-read

• Cite evidence

• Use details from the text to make inferences

• Use context clues to figure out word meanings

• Talk with others about the text

Before we read, let’s talk about what we do when we read closely.

As we close read the nonfiction article” Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War”, we’d like you to annotate your text for important information. It looks like this:

Close Reading and ANNOTATION

should be used as a vehicle to help us analyze the text.

Close Reading and ANNOTATION of end of nonfiction article “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil

War”Teacher Model and Independent Practice!

Academic Circle Protocolopportunity to share connections and new knowledge about what you have learned.

How does culture, time, and place affect someone’s (Salva’s)

identity/character?

Closing activity

Read summaries for ALWTW chapters 2 and 3. Respond to the text-dependent question below.

How is Salva’s character shaped by his culture? Explain your thinking.

Exit Ticket – Learning Target Tracker

At the beginning of each English class, we copy down the lesson’s priority Learning Target. Then, at the end of each class, we self-assess, reflect and/or provide evidence of our progress on meeting

the target after engaging in the class’s learning activities.

Exit Ticket – Learning Target Tracker

Reflect on the learning target and your progress toward mastering this learning target.

I can make connections between two texts, ALWTW by Linda Sue Park, and the non-fiction article “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” during an academic circle protocol.

Explain the connections you made between the two texts!

HomeworkBring English 7 Introduction Letter Home, go over it with

your families and have an adult sign the sheet. Keep the letter home for your parents to have our

informationDue next class and will be your first grade in English class!