Description
In this lesson, students do not work directly with pages 22–41 (which they have read for homework). Rather, students build background knowledge about Vietnam. Then, in Lesson 8, students return to discussing the novel in more detail. This lesson focuses on an informational text, which students will revisit throughout the unit. Carefully preview Opening Part B, which includes direct instruction regarding key distinctions—in terms of purpose and perspective—between informational text and literature. These distinctions are reinforced in future lessons as students continue to work with both types of text.
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Bilingual Language Progressions
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.
Credits
From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Grade 8 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 6.
Available from engageny.org/resource/grade-8-ela-module-1-unit-1-lesson-6; accessed 2015-05-29.
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