Unit 5 Mini Lesson 1 Unit of Study: Historical Fiction Goal: Tackling Complex Texts in the Company of Friends Teaching point: Readers get to know the setting by paying attention to what it looks like and what it feels like. Catchy phrase: Physical details create an emotional atmosphere. (Kid language!) Text: Number the Stars Chart(?): Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Mini Lesson: (7-10 minutes total) Connection: (Before the start of this lesson, set up students into book clubs using historical fiction book sets.) (If your students know what Historical Fiction is, you may want to teach that prior to starting). don’t Readers the thing, all of us already know what a setting is in a story. the time and place where here’s It’s the story or the scene happens. Today I want to teach you that in historical fiction, the setting will inevitably be unfamiliar to us because it happened in the past before you were born. We have to really pay attention not just to what the place looks like, but also what it feels like. Readers get to Physical details create an emotional atmosphere. know the setting by paying attention to what it looks like and what it feels like. Teach: (Project this passage on the board under the doc cam: the last paragraph on page 1 and the first 2 paragraphs on page 2) Watch me as I look for clues in the setting to tell me the emotional atmosphere of the book is like. (Read aloud the passage with animation and cheerfulness) I can tell the setting is of two a sidewalk in the city of Copenhagen on a street called Osterbrogade; hmmm, I am not feeling much emotion yet because I have never been there. Then there was an old woman and a mother out with her baby; they would not be on the street if it so I feel like this wasn’t safe
Unit 5 Mini Lesson 1 Unit of Study: Historical Fiction Goal: Tackling Complex Texts in the Company of Friends Teaching point: Readers get to know the setting by paying attention to what it looks like and what it feels like. Catchy phrase: (Kid language!) Physical details create an emotional atmosphere. Text: Number the Stars Chart(?): Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Mini Lesson: (7-10 minutes total) Connection: (Before the start of this lesson, set up students into book clubs using historical fiction book sets.) (If your students don’t know what Historical Fiction is, you may want to teach that prior to starting). Readers here’s the thing, all of us already know what a setting is in a story. It’s the time and place where the story or the scene happens. Today I want to teach you that in historical fiction, the setting will inevitably be unfamiliar to us because it happened in the past before you were born. We have to really pay attention not just to what the place looks like, but also what it feels like. Physical details create an emotional atmosphere. Readers get to know the setting by paying attention to what it looks like and what it feels like. Teach: (Project this passage on the board under the doc cam: the last paragraph on page 1 and the first 2 paragraphs on page 2) Watch me as I look for clues in the setting to tell me the emotional atmosphere of the book is like. (Read aloud the passage with animation and cheerfulness) I can tell the setting is of two a sidewalk in the city of Copenhagen on a street called Osterbrogade; hmmm, I am not feeling much emotion yet because I have never been there. Then there was an old woman and a mother out with her baby; they would not be on the street if it wasn’t safe so I feel like this
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