Date: January 31, 2018 Cycle/Year: III-IV Duration: 120 minutes (9:30-11:30) Location: Allancroft Learning By the end of today’s class, students will have the opportunity to: Opportunities 1. synthesize their understanding of the reading strategy “Making Inferences” by applying the strategy to a reading of Spill Zone; 2. discuss sci-fi as a genre; 3. demonstrate reading comprehension skills by reading “The Hockey Sweater” and viewing its cartoon adaptation. Big Idea Improving reading comprehension through graphic novel study ELA Competency 1: Language / Talk (attendance, discussion) Competencies Competency 2: Reading / Listening (reading Spill Zone, reading comp. activity) Competency 3: Produces Texts (journal) Student Skills Reading strategies, teamwork, paragraph writing, memorization (inference definition)
Materials Spill Zone (Kindle), bullet journals
Time Plan
Greetings, Attendance, Review
9:30 - 9:50 ● News: We’re starting Spill Zone today ○ Why this book? Lots of (intentional) gaps which require making inferences to fill (i.e. plenty of room for interpretive leaps) ● Fun Attendance: fave comic book to film adaptation, and why ● Weekly Bullet Journal -- Topic: The view from my window . . .
Learning Activity(ies) and/or Tasks 9:45 - 9:50 1. Hook/Intro: What’s Science Fiction (and what’s the point?)? 9:50 - 10:00 2. Review: Inference (agree to collective definition; write on board) + Graphic Novel Features 10:00 - 10:15 3. Spill Zone Review + Begin Spill Zone
10:15 - 10:30 BREAK (Students who missed last class must use break to catch up)
10:30 - 10:45 3. Continue Spill Zone + Complete Inference Activity (Stick-It Together) 10:45 - 11:30 4. Reading Comprehension Activity: “The Hockey Sweater” ● Students read silently and work on questions on loose leaf (in pencil) ● Students watch NFB film adaptation and fill in anything they missed in reading (in ink). Assessment Formative assessments: review journals, post-its Post-lesson Next week: Review interest-a-lyzer and complete group interest/skills inventory + read Notes interview; read to page 45 in the book.