Teacher: Alice Rhodes Class: English 7 English Enhanced Scope and Sequence
Lesson Skill: Comparing fiction to nonfiction text
VDOE –ENGLISH 7
Essential Questions: Identify non- fiction and fiction text features: how are they alike, different and similar? Identify nonfiction text structures and signal words: what are they? How does one use text structure to determine organizational pattern?
Monday- Friday: April 28- May 2
HOMEWORK: Monday- Thursday: Read assigned library book each night for 15 minutes and complete a five sentence summary response on the internal/external character conflict, setting or plot identified. Study literature vocabulary terms.*
*Friday Literature Vocabulary Test – words to define and provide an example. Antonym, simile, antecedent, appositive, setting, foreshadowing, plot, first-person point of view, third-person point of view, theme, opinion, fact, mood, denotation, connotation, preposition, pronoun, adjective, adverb, irony, stanza.
I.
Overhead: Selected non-fiction and fiction text for interactive function and class visual. Conflict PPT.
Lesson Activities:
1. Introduce Scope non-fiction and fiction text selections. Students do a silent read of same text selections.
2. In pairs, complete Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis chart.
3. In pairs, complete Venn diagram.
4. In pairs, complete Author’s Purpose: Comparing Fiction & Nonfiction table.
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept queue card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.
II.
Identify nonfiction text structures: Description or list, sequence or time order, compare-contrast, cause-effect, problem –solution.
Using text structure to determine organizational pattern: Five-W’s-Plus-H Summary
Lesson Activities:
1. Review with student’s each of the five text structures: “nonfiction text structures” handout.
2. Hand out Scope magazine: In pairs, students are to identify nonfiction articles, writing signal words that indicate text structure.
3. Using student created flashcards, test peer partner’s recall of vocabulary terms. Go through each vocabulary term twice.
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept queue card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.
III.
Identify types of conflict: What are five types of conflict? What is an example of each? What is internal conflict and external conflict? What is an example of each?
Identifying types of conflict in fiction.
Lesson Activities:
1. Review with student’s each conflict ppt and handout.
2. Hand out Scope magazine: In pairs, students are to read assigned fiction article to identify conflict. On a separate paper, identify the conflict, the conflict type and explain why student selected.
3. Complete interior or exterior conflicts worksheet.
4. Using student created flashcards, test peer partner’s recall of vocabulary terms. Go through each vocabulary term twice.
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept queue card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.
Lesson Skill: Comparing fiction to nonfiction text
VDOE –ENGLISH 7
Essential Questions: Identify non- fiction and fiction text features: how are they alike, different and similar? Identify nonfiction text structures and signal words: what are they? How does one use text structure to determine organizational pattern?
Monday- Friday: April 28- May 2
HOMEWORK: Monday- Thursday: Read assigned library book each night for 15 minutes and complete a five sentence summary response on the internal/external character conflict, setting or plot identified. Study literature vocabulary terms.*
*Friday Literature Vocabulary Test – words to define and provide an example. Antonym, simile, antecedent, appositive, setting, foreshadowing, plot, first-person point of view, third-person point of view, theme, opinion, fact, mood, denotation, connotation, preposition, pronoun, adjective, adverb, irony, stanza.
I.
Overhead: Selected non-fiction and fiction text for interactive function and class visual. Conflict PPT.
Lesson Activities:
1. Introduce Scope non-fiction and fiction text selections. Students do a silent read of same text selections.
2. In pairs, complete Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis chart.
3. In pairs, complete Venn diagram.
4. In pairs, complete Author’s Purpose: Comparing Fiction & Nonfiction table.
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept queue card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.
II.
Identify nonfiction text structures: Description or list, sequence or time order, compare-contrast, cause-effect, problem –solution.
Using text structure to determine organizational pattern: Five-W’s-Plus-H Summary
Lesson Activities:
1. Review with student’s each of the five text structures: “nonfiction text structures” handout.
2. Hand out Scope magazine: In pairs, students are to identify nonfiction articles, writing signal words that indicate text structure.
3. Using student created flashcards, test peer partner’s recall of vocabulary terms. Go through each vocabulary term twice.
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept queue card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.
III.
Identify types of conflict: What are five types of conflict? What is an example of each? What is internal conflict and external conflict? What is an example of each?
Identifying types of conflict in fiction.
Lesson Activities:
1. Review with student’s each conflict ppt and handout.
2. Hand out Scope magazine: In pairs, students are to read assigned fiction article to identify conflict. On a separate paper, identify the conflict, the conflict type and explain why student selected.
3. Complete interior or exterior conflicts worksheet.
4. Using student created flashcards, test peer partner’s recall of vocabulary terms. Go through each vocabulary term twice.
Assessments: Bell Ringer – “Luck of the Draw” unit review selection. Student randomly selects core concept queue card to orally state definition, example and function for unit review.