Overall Purpose
Students work together to complete a series of tasks related to literature studies culminating in the development of a Thematic Paragraph and Study Guide.
ELA 9 “How Can I …” Group Outcomes
Learner Outcomes
• All students will produce reading notes from a viable note-taking method – Cornell Notes, Strategies that Good Readers Use.
• All students collaborate to produce a paragraph plan.
• All students collaborate to produce a Thematic Paragraph.
• All student collaborate to produce study guide on a short story.
The Groups
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The Plan
- “The Heads Up Head Start” aka Task 1
- All groups read “On The Sidewalk Bleeding” by Evan Hunter from Crossroads.
- Encourage group leaders to demonstrate
- “Strategies that Good Readers Use.”
- Cornel notes
- Suggestions from Short Stories Study Guide handout
- Each group then produces a paragraph response on theme.
- Thematic Paragraph: What idea(s) does the author suggest to you about our identity and sense of self?
- focus on developing valid, meaningful, “parsable” topic sentences; supporting details; transitions; “linking lexicon”; and closing sentences. Avoid “Dropping Quotes” or mentioning literary techniques with little/no relevance to developing theme.
- Insist on a plan of the paragraph before accepting the published written paragraph
- Keyword/Sentence Outline.
- All groups read “On The Sidewalk Bleeding” by Evan Hunter from Crossroads.
- “First Come, First Served” aka Task 2
- As groups complete and “pass” Task I, they select from the following list of stories to complete a study guide:
- “G. Trueheart, Man’s Best Friend”
- “Thank You Ma’am”
- “Kath and Mouse”
- “The Leaving”
- “A Sunrise on the Veld.”
- Produce a Study Guide (from Short Stories Study Guide handout).
- As groups complete and “pass” Task I, they select from the following list of stories to complete a study guide:
Assessments
Thematic Paragraph Rubric Score /100
Study Guide Rubric Score /40
Examplar:
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