In this lesson, students begin learning about the central text, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and its historical context. As they read this text, students will analyze the author’s point of view, purpose, and audience. To do this successfully, students first build their background knowledge about this time in history.
This lesson has a modified Gallery Walk, similar to that from Module 2, Unit 1, Lesson 1. In that lesson, the topic of the module was the mystery; in this lesson, students know what the central text will be; the mystery is what they expect to find in the text.
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.