LESSON ONE: Apply Pre-reading Strategies and Read Persuasive Text
LESSON DESCRIPTION
Students preview, predict, and set a purpose and rate for reading a nonfiction text.
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
LESSON MATERIALS
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Chief Red Jacket’s Reply:
An Excerpt From An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha
by Elbert Hubbard. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. (n.d.).
Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog: An
Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red
Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830, by Elbert Hubbard. Retrieved
January 12, 2006,
from
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/redjk10.txt provided.
§ Supplies: Sticky notes for Read-Write-Talk
§ Handouts provided
o K-W-L Chart (Burke, 2000)
o K-W Chart (modified K-W-L)
o T-Chart
o Cluster Map Instructions Blank
o Anticipation Guide (Beers, 2002)
o Text Preview Chart Instructions Blank
o Chief Red Jacket’s Reply: An Excerpt From An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha by Elbert Hubbard
§ Words to know
o graphic organizer
o pre-reading strategy
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Assessment Scoring Guide
The provided formative assessment contains selected, constructed response, and a performance event item. A reading passage is required. Select a passage you wish the students to read and use during the assessment.
1. Use the term “access prior knowledge” to name the activity for the students. The term is used in the summative assessment. After discussing background information, choose from the five graphic organizers provided or use an alternate graphic organizer to access students’ prior knowledge.
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Discuss background information with students, such as:
§ The Iroquois consisted of six separate Indian nations: the Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Tuscarora. They lived in what is now upstate New York near Niagra Falls.
§ Chief Red Jacket was a Seneca chief known for his oratorical skill.
§ The Boston Missionary Society was organized in 1804 by Congregationalist descendents of the Puritans. The earliest programs of the Boston Missionary Society were designed to assist the poor.
§ Reverend Cram was a missionary with the Boston Missionary Society. He met with a council of Iroquois Chiefs at Buffalo Creek, NY, in the summer of 1805.
§ Congregationalism refers to the beliefs and practices of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing. It was prominent in early New England and later marked by union with other Protestant denominations.
§ A Puritan is any member of a Protestant group in England and the American colonies who, in the 16th and 17th century, wanted to make the Church of England simpler in its services and stricter about morals. |
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What is a missionary?
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What role did missionaries play in American history?
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What do you know about the Iroquois?
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What do you know about Chief Red Jacket?
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What do you know about Boston Missionary Society?
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What questions do you have about the time period, the characters, and/ or the events?
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In what ways were the characteristics of the Iroquois different from those of the Boston Missionary Society?
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Do you agree or disagree with these statements? |
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2. Preview
the passage (pre-reading strategy). Use the
Text Preview Chart graphic
organizer (with instructions) or another graphic organizer strategy.
The Text
Preview Chart is used in the sample formative assessment for this lesson.
3. Use the “Read-Write-Talk” strategy described below to enhance student comprehension of the passage or you may use another research-based reading strategy.