Ready-to-teach lesson
Analyze What Changes a Character's Actions
Boomer Goes to School - Grade 1 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
20 minutes Follow the three corrections Boomer is given, and find the sentence that stops them.
Essential question: Why does Boomer stop wiggling?
Materials
Text to mark
PRODUCT
The three corrections in order, and the reason he stops
- • The book
- • Passage 7 - trailing a paper streamer past the seated circle
- Prepared passages: Passage 7, Passage 8, Passage 9
Lesson sequence
1 Collect the three - 7 min
- Passage 8 - a boy holding Boomer's collar, one finger raised
- Passage 9 - Boomer sitting upright in the middle of the circle
- Focus:
- Three attempts and their result
- Teacher model:
- Read page 8 and write the three corrections on the board.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8 2 What changed - 5 min
- Focus:
- A cause that is not an instruction
- Teacher direction:
- Read page 9 and ask what is different about it.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 9 3 Write it out - 8 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write the three corrections and what finally worked.
- Expected answer:
- Sit down, sit still, be quiet; what worked was understanding why he was there.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 7, Passage 8, Passage 9
Support & extension
Above: Say why understanding worked when three instructions did not, using what happens in the circle.
Below: List the three things Boomer is told. Then read page 9 and say what he finally understood.
Assessment
- All three corrections, in the book's order
- Says none of the three worked
- Names being shown to the class as what changed it
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