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UNIT TITLE: 6

SUBJECT: Reading

GRADE:
6

DATE: 4/18/13

PERIOD:
ALL

Essential Question(s):

DOK LEVEL AND

LANGUAGE

How can you not see it the way I see it???

Level 2: Infer

Spartan Standard:

Infertheauthorsviewpoint(termnotused)inpoems

OBJECTIVE OF THE LESSON

A statement or statements of what students will be able to do AS A
RESULT of rather than AS PART OF the lesson. The objective should
be observable, behavioral, and measurable.

SWBAT infer the authors viewpoint in

poems and demonstrate understanding by
getting a 80% or greater on the exit ticket.

ASSESSMENT OF THE OBJECTIVE(S)

(MASTERY CHECK) Describe how you will collect
evidence that individual students have indeed met the
lesson objectives.

VOCABULARY
What academic language will be focused on in the lesson and unit?

-infer
-authors viewpoint
-perspective

NEXT STEPS TO DIFFERENTIATE AND

HELP ALL STUDENTS MEET LEARNING
GOALS

Multiple choice questions about authors

viewpoint in fresh text

(SMALL GROUP, CONFERENCING, CHUNNKING, ETC.)

Strategies:
-Graphic Organizer
-Small groups (with me and Ms. Cummings SPED)

METACOGNITION

HANDS ON LEARNING

-Graphic organizer

-Sort different poems to choose poems to analyze authors

viewpoint

(Describe the parts of the

lesson where students will have the opportunity to monitor
how they are thinking about the lesson)

REAL WORLD
APPLICATION
(Describe how the
information in this lesson
will be connected to the
real world)

Every piece of writing has a

theme, whether its a
message being shared
through creative writing
such as poetry or fiction, or
if its a message being
shared through a school
report or a newspaper
article. However, writers
may write about the exact
same topic but disagree
about whether it is good or
bad. Authors viewpoint can
change the way we, as
readers, perceive the topic

BRAIN
BREAKS!
Yoga pretzels

(Describe the
hands-on learning opportunities that will be part of this
lesson)

GLOBAL CONNECT

(Describe how you will

connect this lesson with whats happening around the
world)
Revolutionary poetry has many different viewpoints see
poetry created for/against the Syrian Revolution this year.

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s/he is writing about.

TEACHER AGENDA

Insert the outline of your lesson activities and times for each segment under each heading below.
fInclude implications for I do. We do. You do.

DO NOW

5-10 Minutes
Do Now: Review figurative language examples (5 minutes)

STATING THE PURPOSE

5 Minutes
STATE THE PURPOSE: Overview of objective, real world connection, and
mastery check with students (5 minutes)

I DO

10-12 Minutes
Hook: See video on perspective/viewpoint with rabbit/duck illusion
Model readers thinking by reading poem out loud (poem about a kid wanting
to be a king) and model graphic organizer for analysis of authors viewpoint.
(Topic=being king, Authors viewpoint=being king would be awesome
because they get to do whatever they want) (10 minutes)

WE DO

10-15 Minutes
Analyze second song/poem for authors viewpoint, one that has the same
topic as the model but a different author viewpoint. Use Syria video to create
global connection and model analysis of the authors perspective on the
topic of the Syrian dictator. (topic=dictator (similar to king) and authors
viewpoint=dictators are evil and dont let their people be free)
CFUs:
What topic is being discussed?
What is the authors viewpoint on the topic?
What is the textual evidence? (How do you know?)
(10 minutes)

YOU DO

30-45 Minutes
(This is where proficiency is really assessed)
Students analyze theme in two poems of their choice (scavenger hunt) using
graphic organizer.
(15 minutes)

EXIT TICKET

5-10 Minutes
The Exit Ticket is the students chance to prove that they are

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proficient on the standard that they worked on for that day. It

should be used by the teacher to determine next steps in
instruction.
Exit Ticket multiple choice questions, short constructed response, etc.
3 multiple choice questions aligned to Krypteia regarding authors
perspective of fresh, short text (10 minutes)
Students track their exit ticket performance in bar-graph tracker for each
objective in the unit.
ReadingPlus(30minutes)

Discussion
Think-Pair-Share
Authentic Questions
Seed Discussions
Group Pattern Puzzles
Group Graphic
Organizers
Carousel
Gallery Walk
Concentric Circles
Clock Buddies
Group QARs
Capsule Vocabulary

Metacogniton
Strategies
Illustration
Small Group Work
Acting It Out
Journaling

Cooperative Learning
Power Thinking
Pattern Puzzles
Graphic Organizers
Venn
Diagram/Comparison
Selective
Underlining/Highlighting
Column Notes
History Frame/Story Map
Sticky Notes
OpinionProof/Conclusion-Support
Problem-Solution

Higher Order
Thinking
Summarizing
Sum It Up
Framed
Paragraph
Writing
Template
Journal/Learning
Log
RAFT
Spool Paper
Sentence
Synthesis
Word
Combining

Vocabulary
Word Map
Concept of Definition
Map
Graphic Organizers
Sentence/Word
Expansion
Word Combining
Capsule Vocabulary
Semantic Feature
Analysis
Journal/Learning Log