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Hello everyone, welcome back I hope you had a great weekend! On your desk you will find your
writing journals with some feedback inside. You all are doing a great job with these so far- just
make sure that you are really trying to write the whole time. I noticed that some entries seemed
pretty short, and just wanted to remind you that you can keep writing even if you think your idea
is fully formed. Who knows, you may even get some new ideas!
Go ahead and take a seat with your SSR books for about 5 minutes while everyone gets settled
in. We have a busy day so we will get moving along soon!
2.
One of our big projects for this unit is to write our own memoirs. We started it a little last week
when we look at Watermark events and created our own Humans of New York posts. Does
everyone remember doing those?
Since we are going to be writing memoirs, I thought it would be helpful if we read one first.
Today we are just going to go through the story and understand what the author is telling us.
Tomorrow we are going to break down the parts of the memoir so that we know what we should
have in our own writing. Does this sound good?
3.
Before we begin today, I want you all to take out your writing journals for me. We are going to
do another free write today. In this free write, I want you to reflect on a holiday that sticks out in
your mind for some reason. It can be a good reason, or it can be a bad reason. Try to focus on
a specific holiday, like your 3rd grade Thanksgiving rather than Thanksgiving in general. I want
you to write everything you can remember about that holiday for the next 10 minutes, ok? Our
reading today is about a specific holiday, so thinking about our own experiences can help us
connect to the ones we read about. Go ahead and start.
During this time, circulate the room and pay attention to which students are focused and which
are not. Look at some student writing to see how they are doing with the prompt.
4.
Ok class, now that you have thought about your own holiday experiences lets read one
together. This short memoir is called Magic and its by Liz Rosenberg. I am going to read the
first page aloud to everyone. As I am reading, try to think of one question and one comment you
have that come up.
Read first page to students.
Hopefully everyone has one question and one comment from that passage. Go ahead and write
it down, then turn to your partner and share.
Allow students to talk through with their partners for a minute or two. Observe conversations
and offer opinions/thought when appropriate. Discuss all religion questions/comments openly
and without pushing one way or another.
Great job everyone. Im going to read the next page aloud again, and you all should do the
same thing.
Read second part of story aloud while students like for comments and questions.
Ok, go ahead and write down your question or comment. Then again, turn to your neighbor and
discuss.
Give partners a chance to do this, observe when I can.
Great work class. Now I want you to finish the story on your own. You should still work on
finding one question and one comment on each page. Any questions? Ok, go ahead and read
the end.
After it looks like students finish up, have them share their questions and comments for the last
few pages with a partner.
5.
Ok everyone, now we want to look back at our story and figure out what it was telling us to do
this, we are going to do an activity called Somebody Wanted But So. This takes each of the
characters from the story and helps us dig into it a little deeper. Lets do the first one together.
Go through the SWBS chart for the narrator.
Great work guys. Now, go ahead and fill out the sections for 3 other characters from the story.
This will help us get the story from all sides.
6.
Now instead of just looking at what happened during the story, we want to figure out how we
can find Lizs values in this experience. We have talked a little before about how our values
come from our experiences, so lets see if we can figure out what those are in Magic.
In this double-entry journal you will find quotes from the memoir that you think give information
as to what Lizs values are. In the first column write the quote, and in the second column write
why you think it is important. Are there any questions? Make sure you focus on figuring out her
values. Go ahead and get started.
Allow students to work on this sheet. Circulate the room to see how they are doing, and answer
any questions if needed.
7.
Now that you have determined what values Liz talks about in her story, I want you to do another
short free write. This time, write about how the values Liz talks about match up with your own.
Do they or do they not? Why? Go ahead and explore these questions in your writing journal.
Allow students to free write, and answer any questions they have. Observe the class to make
sure all students are working during this time.
8.
For your exit card today, I want you to write one thing that you notice is different in memoirs
from other types of writing you may have seen before. Try your best to think of something, and
turn them into me on the way out. Thanks for your hard work today!
Differentiated Instruction to accommodate one or more of my profiled students:
(This is where you identify specific aspects of this lesson which have been differentiated in
order to address the needs of one or more of your profiled studentsidentify them by name)
SOMEBODY
WANTED
BUT
SO