DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

JUNIOR HIGH / HIGH SCHOOL

SCHOOL YEAR 2015-2016
Teacher:
X Grade A-B

READING LESSON PLAN

UNIT 1.1

Concept from Unit: What draws us to people and things around us and makes us care?

OLD YELLER
INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS
At the end of this course, students will:

Know to construct meanings of new words using word structure. Identifying the base form
of the verb and looking for clues in context.

Be able to identify the setting of a selection, as well as to understand how the setting can
influence story events and character behavior, to increase comprehension.

Understand how to visualize, putting themselves into the story, becoming part of it with
all their senses. Combining what they know about places form their own experience with the
description from the story.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1) To analyze the bond between people and pets.
2) To visualize the way life was lived in the 19th century.
3) To explain how can someone protect those he loves.
4) To discover the relationship between people and dogs through history.
BACKGROUND TO THE LESSON
Ever since the beginning of time, dogs and humans gave lived together and helped each other.
Dogs can do many tings better than people; they can run faster, their hearing is more acute, and
their sense of smell is much stronger. Because of this, they have often been used for hunting, to
provide food for their owners, or else as alert guard dogs. Dogs are so keen to help us because
apart form the fact that we give them food, they are used to living in packs and are adaptable
enough to thing of humans as part of this extended family.
SETTING THE STAGE: Theme, Place & Time period
Theme: Loyalty
Setting: Texas frontier
Time period: 1867

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SOURCES & INFORMATION ABOUT THIS LESSON
Getting Started: Inquiry Question: How can we help protect those we love?
Locating the Site: Maps
1. Texas Frontier
Determining the Facts: Readings
1. Dr. Dogs RX
2. Animals at Your Service
3. 25 Heroic Dogs
Visual Evidence: Images
1. Hero Dogs
2. Service Dog Helping
Putting It All Together: Activities
1. Analyzing the life of a Rescue dog Trainer
2. Researching the facilities given to guide dogs
3. Set a round table about the main reason an animal can have to risk its life for
saving someone elses.
Supplementary Resources
Additional assignments and/or required materials from students (click right to
redirect the hyperlinks)
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two maps of the region;

two readings about rice cultivation and life on an antebellum rice plantation.
four photos of Chicora Wood Plantation;
a drawing indicating the layout of a typical plantation complex.