Teacher: Kelly Rozelle Subject: ELA Grade: 7 Dates: 8/22/16 -- 8/26/16

MONDAY / Lesson Title: “A Letter From the Fringe” / Standards:RL.7.1,SL.7.1
Objectives:
  • Make inferences and support them with textual evidence.
  • Participate in small-group discussions about an issue, building on others’ ideas and expressing your own thinking clearly.
Procedures:
  • Sacred Reading Time (SRT)
  • Distribute copies of “A Letter From the Fringe” and model (use p. 184-185) how to create a dialectical journal to analyze the protagonist (evidence, inference, and commentary).
  • Divide the class into small groups. Assign each group a passage from “A Letter from the Fringe” to reread. Students work in small groups to create a dialectical journal to analyze the protagonist. (p. 181-183, p. 186-188, p. 189-191)

Resources & Materials: Copies of Joan Bauer’s “A Letter From the Fringe” / Assessments: Participation and Dialectical Journals
Comments:
TUESDAY / Lesson Title: “ A Letter From the Fringe” / Standards: W.7.2 W.7.4, W.7.5
Objectives:
  • Write a paragraph analyzing the characterization of the protagonist in a short story.
Procedures:
  • SRT
  • Introduce ABC/AEC paragraph frame.
  • Model how to use the dialectical journal to construct an analytical paragraph.
  • “A Letter From the Fringe” Quiz

Resources & Materials: Copies of “A Letter From the Fringe,” Dialectical Journals, and Character Analysis Paragraph Frame (Handout) / Assessments: Participation and Quiz
Comments:
WEDNESDAY / Lesson Title: “A Letter From the Fringe” / Standards: W.7.2 W.7.4, W.7.5, SL.7.1
Objectives:
  • Participate in small-group discussions about an issue, building on others’ ideas and expressing your own thinking clearly.
  • Write a paragraph analyzing the characterization of the protagonist in a short story.
Procedures:
  • SRT& LIBRARY
  • Working in small groups, students write a paragraph analyzing the characterization of the protagonist in “A Letter From the Fringe.”

Resources & Materials: Copies of “A Letter From the Fringe,” Dialectical Journals, and Character Analysis Paragraph Frame (Handout) / Assessments: Participation and Paragraphs
Comments:
THURSDAY / Lesson Title: Global Scholar / Standards: RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.6
Objectives:
  • Determine the theme of a short story.
  • Make connections between the short stories “A Letter From the Fringe” and “Mrs. Noonan.”
Procedures:
  • GLOBAL SCHOLAR: READING
  • SRT
  • Begin reading aloud the short story “Mrs. Noonan” by Graham Salisbury.

Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation
Comments:
FRIDAY / Lesson Title: Global Scholar / Standards:RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.6
Objectives:
  • Determine the theme of a short story.
  • Make connections between the short stories “A Letter From the Fringe” and “Mrs. Noonan.”
Procedures:
  • GLOBAL SCHOLAR: MATH
  • SRT
  • Finish reading aloud the short story “Mrs. Noonan” by Graham Salisbury & discuss.
  • Book Talk: On the Fringe

Resources & Materials: / Assessments: Participation
Comments: