LESSON THREE: Responses to Literature

                             

LESSON DESCRIPTION

Students write responses to literature showing an understanding of theme and characters using details/examples from the text as support.

 

GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

W3C       The student will write expository paragraphs (including compare/contrast and cause and effect) with supporting details and concluding sentences.

 

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Sources of literature 

 

§         Supplies 

o        Pen/Pencils

 

§         Handouts provided

o        Comparing and Contrasting Two Literary Selections

 

§         Words to know

o        cause and effect

o        compare

o        contrast

o        concluding sentence

o        expository

o        supporting details

o        topic sentence

 

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT                          Assessment                    Scoring Guide

Students independently read the story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Kipling and the poem Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out. Students use the Comparing and Contrasting Two Literary Selections graphic organizer to analyze the story and poem. Students use information from the Comparing and Contrasting Two Literary Selections graphic organizer to write about selections.

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

 

1.        Model using the Comparing and Contrasting Two Literary Selections graphic organizer for two fictional works. Explain how to use theme, characters, and cause and effect relationships as a basis for comparison. Show an example of an expository paragraph that was created from information from the Comparing and Contrasting Two Literary Selections graphic organizer. Students highlight the topic sentence, the supporting details, and the conclusion sentence.

 

2.        Teacher uses two children’s fairy tales or two selections read earlier in the school year to model writing on a graphic organizer. Allow a student to write on the Comparing and Contrasting Two Literary Selections graphic organizer to model for the class.

 

Questions

for

Students

 

How do you know what kind of graphic organizer to use?

What challenges did you face when asked to compare and contrast two pieces of literature?

What elements did you use as a basis for comparing the two pieces of literature?

What would have made the process of comparing and contrasting easier?