Lesson Plan Title of Unit: The Scholarship Jacket Title of Lesson: Tuesday’s Lesson Subject Area(s): Reading Grade level: 7th Grade State Standard: Reading Standards for Literature Grade 7: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Objectives (What measurable or observable student responses will be a result of this lesson?):

1. Students will be able to use context clues to understand the vocabulary used in the story. 2. Students will be able to use the vocabulary words used in the story in real-life situations. 3. Students will understand how to make inferences. 4. Students will be able to recognize first-person point of view when reading a story.

Materials Needed:

1. 37 copies of both the vocabulary stud and vocabulary practice for The Scholarship Jacket 2. 37 copies of the inference picture for homework. 3. Students name on a small piece of paper and a bucket 4. Chalk or marker for front board 5. Chair in front of the class

Procedures (What will you and the students be doing?):

1. First, I will introduce The Scholarship Jacket and the idea of “What stands in the way of your DREAMS?” (pg. 216 of Literature book). We will discuss the Key Idea and Quick Write as a class.

2. We will then discuss work on the Vocabulary Study worksheet as a class. 3. After discussing the vocabulary study worksheet, we will move on to the bottom of page

217 and Vocabulary in Context (bottom of page 217). The students will be able to use their worksheet from the previous step to help them.

4. After learning the vocabulary words, we will play “Hot Seat,” a vocabulary game where one student sits in front with their back to the chalkboard. I will draw a name out of the bucket for the person to be in the hot seat. Then I will pick a vocabulary word and write it behind him/her. The class is able to give three one-word hints to the student before he/she has to guess the word. Once guessed, I will draw another name from the bucket and we will start it over again.

5. Once we are done discussing the vocabulary seen in the story, I will explain to the class about first-person point of view (activity on top of page 217).

6. We will then move onto Reading Skill: Make Inferences. I will explain to the class what inferences are. We will then look at two different pictures from Chris Van Allsburg’s book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. As a class, we will discuss what the inferences could be for the two pictures. I will then assign the third picture and have the class write a paragraph explaining the inferences they make of the picture (hand out the copies made of the picture).

7. The students’ assignment is to finish Vocabulary Practice and a paragraph explaining the inference of the picture.

Accommodations: With the students who struggle with vocabulary and context clues, I will work one on one with them so they understand the words. These students will be able to Evaluation

1. By collecting and grading their Vocabulary Practice worksheet, I will be able to see how well they understand the vocabulary words.

2. By reading and grading their paragraph of their own inference of a picture from Chris Van Allsburg’s story The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, I will be able to see if the class, as a whole, is ready to make inferences from the story The Scholarship Jacket.

3. While playing “Hot Seat,” I can see the students who can find similes to the vocabulary words and truly understand it.

4. I will also be able to evaluate the students by the pop quiz the will get. Work-Cited Inference Pictures http://ssrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/slohnes/new_page_1.htm 10/28/13

Inference Picture #1 for discussion

Inference Picture #2 for discussion

Inference Picture #3 for homework

Inference Picture #3—Homework; Due October 30, 2013.

For your homework, write a very detailed, proofread paragraph on your OWN inference of this picture.

Explain what you think happened before this picture was taken and what will happen next. Make sure to use a lot of detail when explaining the picture.

Inference: the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises