Lesson Seed #6 Making a Difference
Text: Give Me Liberty Chapters 24-30
Length: 2 days
Standards
RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL.5.2: 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.
RL.5.3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
RL.5.7: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Rl.5.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Student Outcomes
1. Students will be placed in one of seven groups, and each group will be assigned one of the seven chapters in this section of the novel.
2. Students will read their assigned chapter; discuss the chapter with their group, and record notes of the important events, character shifts, etc. For students requiring additional support, the text may be chunked and, if necessary, cued for events, characters, etc.
3. Students will dramatize their assigned chapter of the novel taking care to include important events and important character elements.
4. Within assigned chapter groups, students should take particular note of these elements in the following chapters when presenting their dramas. Chapter 24: the assignment to take the notice to the printers and the continuing conflict between Ben and Edan; Chapter 25: the forgotten notice to the printers, the lost horse, the possibility of reward; Chapter 26: recovering the lost horse and receiving the reward; Chapter 27: returning Basil’s money and the question of slavery; Chapter 28: the forgotten notice and the ensuing fight; Chapter 29: the young men attempting to get weapons from the arsenal; Chapter 30: Nathaniel’s release from indenture and joining the militia
5. Students will present their dramas to the whole class to provide all students with the details of each of the seven chapters.
6. Students will discuss the ongoing feud between Ben and Edan with the emphasis that the argument between two individuals reflects in miniature the more global argument between the American colonies and Great Britain.
7. Each cooperative student group will meet to discuss their assigned character/s and add to their note taking organizers based upon new details from chapters 24-30.