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Box of Shocks (EBook) - Grade 5 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
20 minutes Build one integrated evidence-based response to: How do Oliver's One integrated evidence-based actions toward Diggory and Diggory's final note show that their response.
relationship has changed?
Essential question: How do Oliver's actions toward Diggory and Diggory's final note show that their relationship has changed?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book
- Passage 2
- Student evidence notes
- Passage 10
- Prepared passages: Passage 2, Passage 10, Passage 11, Passage 13, Passage 15
- Passage 11
- Passage 13
Lesson sequence
1 Central Idea and Theme - 4 min
- Passage 15
- Focus:
- compassionate intentions can build connection despite flawed decisions.
- Teacher direction:
- Explain how Oliver's concern for Diggory begins to change the relationship.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 11, Passage 13, Passage 15 2 Central Idea and Theme - 4 min
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- Teacher direction:
- What central idea about helping another person is supported by Oliver's gift, Dad's judgment, and Diggory's note?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 11, Passage 13, Passage 15 3 Evidence Based Writing - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- How does Oliver change from a collector seeking shocks into someone who acts as Diggory's friend?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 10, Passage 11, Passage 15 4 Character Development - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- How do Oliver's priorities change from planning the Box of Shocks to receiving Diggory's note?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 10, Passage 11, Passage 15 5 Synthesis - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- How do Oliver's actions toward Diggory and Diggory's final note show that their relationship has changed?
- Student product:
- One integrated response revised across the selected evidence moves.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2, Passage 10, Passage 11, Passage 13, Passage 15
Assessment
- States an idea broad enough to connect all cited moments
- Distinguishes Oliver's good intention from his unsafe decisions
- Supports the idea with Diggory's response
- Presents a clear claim about Oliver's change
- Uses evidence from both the beginning and later parts of the story
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