Topic: Class: Date:

Making predictions and character English 10 Wednesday Sep 21

motivation

Content Objectives: Language Objectives:

Students will make predictions Students will make predictions about characters
about the choices a character and plot before and while reading the short story
makes and the events of a The Possibility of Evil.
literary text.

Key Vocabulary: Materials (including supplementary and adapted):

Tablets for quizlet review of vocabulary
Content Vocabulary: Vocabulary Chapter2 packet copies
Character motivation Probable passage pre-reading activity handouts
Sentence starters for making predictions
Cross-Curricular Vocabulary:
Predictions

Higher-Order Questions:
What are characters motivated by? What motivates us as people?

Lesson Sequence Activities

1) Warm up in vocabulary Building Background

packets: matching words with
definitions Explicit Links to Previous Experiences: In step 3 with the
2) Independent reading: make a probable passage activity, students will be asked about
prediction about what will their personal familiarity with the clue words from the
happen next in your book. story.
(Quickwrite in journals)
3) Pre-reading activity: probable Explicit Links to Past Learning: In step 4, I will link the
passage making predictions concept of character motivation to the previously studied
about the short story concept of making inferences. Students will have to make
Possibility of Evil. Students inferences as they read in order to decide what is
will have a group of words and motivating the main character and why.
will predict what the story is
about based on these clues.
4) Introduction to story: I will
explain that students will need
to use their knowledge of
making inferences to consider
the motivations for the main
characters actions, as well as
to predict what she might do
next.

Lesson Sequence Student Activities (Check all that apply for activities
5) Students will read The throughout lesson):
Possibility of Evil aloud. As
 they read, I will pause and Scaffolding: Teacher Modeling Guided (Small
model making a prediction. Group/Partner)
Gradually, I will ask students Independent (I watch and respond; You
to turn and talk and work with do independently)
peers to make predictions,
then finally have them make Grouping: Whole Class Small Group Partners
predictions independently Independent
towards the end of the story.
(Students will be provided Language Processes: Reading Writing Listening
with sentence starters to help Speaking
them articulate a prediction
each time they pause.) Strategies: Hands-on Meaningful Links to
6) Exit slip: Make a prediction for Objectives
the rest of the story or for
what happens after the story Review and Assessment (Check all that apply):
is ended.
Individual Group Written Oral

(Include methods of assessment throughout Lesson

Sequence)

Review Key Vocabulary: How and When?

I will review the term character motivations as I
introduce the story before reading it to the students. I
will explain that this main character has strange
motivations for her actions and that as we read, we will
predict what she might do next and then infer what her
motivations may have been for acting in a certain way.

Review Key Content Concepts: How and When?

I will review the concept of making predictions as I pass
out the probable passage activities. I will explain this pre-
reading activity is to help the students think about major
themes and anticipate the events of the story.

Review of all content and language objectives: How and

When?

I will write the objectives on the board where they will be

visible throughout the lesson. I will verbally review them
at the beginning of class following the vocabulary quiz
and before the probable passage.