5 parargram about dog
Unit 7
Title: The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers
Suggested Time: 3 days (40 minutes per day)
Common Core ELA Standards: RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.4; W.7.1, W.7.4, W.7.7, W.7.9; SL.7.1; L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.4
Teacher Instructions
Preparing for Teaching
Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.
Big Ideas and Key Understandings
A treasure is what is important to someone, not necessarily something that can be bought with money.
Synopsis
Fourteen year-old Greg Ridley gets into an argument with his father over his bad grades and his father forbids him to play basketball. Greg wanders into an abandoned building in Harlem, New York and meets a homeless man, Lemon Brown. After chasing away some thugs who try to steal Lemon Brown’s treasure, Greg begins to understand the legacies fathers can pass on to their sons and the true meaning of treasures.
Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.
Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary.
During Teaching
Students read the entire selection independently.
Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along, reading in their head. Depending on the text length and student need, the teacher may choose to read the full text or a passage aloud. For a particularly complex text, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.
Students and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions, continually returning to the text. Use think-pair-share to discuss and develop the meanings of “Words that require more time to learn.”
Text Dependent Questions
Text-dependent Questions Evidence-based Answers
Reread paragraphs 1-5. What is meant by the sentence in
Title: The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers
Suggested Time: 3 days (40 minutes per day)
Common Core ELA Standards: RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.4; W.7.1, W.7.4, W.7.7, W.7.9; SL.7.1; L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.4
Teacher Instructions
Preparing for Teaching
Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.
Big Ideas and Key Understandings
A treasure is what is important to someone, not necessarily something that can be bought with money.
Synopsis
Fourteen year-old Greg Ridley gets into an argument with his father over his bad grades and his father forbids him to play basketball. Greg wanders into an abandoned building in Harlem, New York and meets a homeless man, Lemon Brown. After chasing away some thugs who try to steal Lemon Brown’s treasure, Greg begins to understand the legacies fathers can pass on to their sons and the true meaning of treasures.
Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.
Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary.
During Teaching
Students read the entire selection independently.
Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along, reading in their head. Depending on the text length and student need, the teacher may choose to read the full text or a passage aloud. For a particularly complex text, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.
Students and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions, continually returning to the text. Use think-pair-share to discuss and develop the meanings of “Words that require more time to learn.”
Text Dependent Questions
Text-dependent Questions Evidence-based Answers
Reread paragraphs 1-5. What is meant by the sentence in