The Girl Who Married the Moon by Joseph Bruchac (Week 2)

MONDAY and TUESDAY (11.17-18.2008)

DCPS Standard: 6IT-E3
Identify and use organizational structures in text, including chronological order, comparison & contrast, cause & effect, logical order, and classification schemes.

WARM-UP (BCR):List down the things that you do from the time you eat your dinner until you sleep.

Goal(s):Make a timeline of events in the story The Girl Who Married the Moon.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:How can you show the events in the story chronologically using illustrations or story timeline?

PRODUCT:Completed Story Map Graphic Organizer from this story http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/storymap1_eng.pdf

WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION:

Lead the students on a picture walk, using these prompts:
Page 171: Who is the man in the illustration? Who is the woman? Where are they? What is the man holding in his left hand?
Page 172-173: Where are the girls sitting? What are they looking at? What is behind their backs?
Page 174: Who is this man? Why is his face hidden? What do you think his clothing is made of?

Page 177: Why does the girl the Moon is carrying have her eyes closed? Why is the other girl falling? What has happened to her hair?
Pages 178-179: Who are these people? What are they doing? Why do they have only one eye?
Page 181: What are both the moon and his wife holding in this picture? What is on the wall above them?

SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION:

Ask the students to work with a partner. Now that they completed the story, they can already sequence the events that happened.

Show this activity on the Promethean Board and sequence it with the students:
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=storyseq

Put the events from the story "The Girl Who Married the Moon" in the correct sequence.
http://www.quia.com/pp/54862.html?AP_rand=190834205
(use Promethean Board to show this graphic organizer: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/sequence.pdf

Closure of Lesson

MONDAY:
Online Sequencing Story Game:http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/scramble.html

TUESDAY:
As a closing activity, have students write short journal entries about how this activity helped them to better understand the story of the Girl Who Married The Moon.

WEDNESDAY (11.19.2008)

DCPS Standard: 6LT-T3 Apply knowledge that theme, whether stated or implied, refers to the basic meaning of a literary text.
WARM-UP (BCR):Do you have a job that you share with someone else in the family? If so, what is the job? Do you think it is important for family members to work together? Why or why not?
Goal(s):Summarize the plot in the story.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:What do you think happened to the impatient cousin? Do you think her life will be different now that her cousin has married the moon?
PRODUCT:Completed Plot Graphic Organizer http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson800/IdentifyPlot.pdf
WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION:Show this Elements of a Plot PPT on the Promethean Board http://alex.state.al.us/uploads/6991/Elements%20of%20a%20Plot%20Diagram].ppt
SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION: Ask the students to work with a partner. From the story, ask the students to complete the graphic organizer:http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson800/IdentifyPlot.pdf
Closure of Lesson: Q & A: What is your favorite part in the story? Why?

THURSDAY (11.20.2008)

DCPS Standard: 6IT-E3
Identify and use organizational structures in text, including chronological order, comparison & contrast, cause & effect, logical order, and classification schemes.
WARM-UP (BCR): From your science class, recall the phases of the moon. Describe them in a clear night sky. Do you think the characters in the story have seen the same thing at night?
Goal(s): Predict what will happen given another ending to the story.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can happen if the Moon refused to share the job of carrying the light across the sky with his wife?
PRODUCT: Completed Graphic Organizer of the story http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/storymap1_eng.pdf
WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION: Show this Elements of a Story PPT on the Promethean Board http://www.nebo.edu/misc/learning_resources/ppt/6-12/story_elements.ppt

Show the summary of the story on the Promethean Board: Master ELL 2-5, and the pictures. Ask a couple of students to retell the story mentioning all the elements discussed, use the pictures to help them.

SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION: Ask the students to work with a partner. Now that they have finished reading, they can already analyze the story. Ask them to complete this graphic organizer http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/storymap1_eng.pdf
Closure of Lesson: Who is your favorite character in the story? Why?

FRIDAY (11.21.2008)

DCPS Standard: Identify and use organizational structures in text, including chronological order, comparison & contrast, cause & effect, logical order, and classification schemes.
WARM-UP (BCR):Have students each draw four horizontal lines on a sheet of paper to create five sections. Have them label the sections morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. In each section, have them write about what they do during that part of the day. Then invite them to share what they wrote.
Goal(s):Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast information in a text.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can you make a distinction between day and night based from the story? Tell about what happens and what you do during each time of the day.
PRODUCT: Comparison and Contrast Graphic Organizer on the different times of the day.
WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION: Show this Compare and Contrast PPT on the Promethean Board http://people.clarkson.edu/~liebleln/comm214/images.ppt
SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION: Ask the students to work with a partner. Now that they have finished reading, they can already analyze the story. Ask them to compare and contrast night and day using this graphic organizer http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/venn.pdf
Closure of Lesson: Jeopardy Game using the Promethean Board http://misseckert.net/files/jeopardy_round_two.ppt
FRIDAY QUIZ

WORD LIST: Spelling Rule: Homophones

BACHELORS (Easy) = sole, soul; pore, pour; loan, lone; poll, pole; main, mane
MASTERS (Average) = cereal, serial; stationary, stationery; canvas, canvass; patience, patients; prey, pray
PhD (Challenge) = aisle, isle; dissent, descent; barren, baron; assent, ascent; kernel, colonel

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