In this lesson, students read the first excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Throughout the module they will read five excerpts, which together constitute a substantive part, but not the whole, of the text. Since this is a complex text, students gain more from closely reading excerpts than from quickly reading the whole.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to begin to use tools and routines that will help them navigate the complex text. This includes using context and roots to figure out key vocabulary, determining literal meaning, paraphrasing difficult sentences, rereading, and analyzing purpose and author’s craft.
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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.