Ready-to-teach lesson
Key Details
Box of Shocks (EBook) - Grade 5 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE
- 10 minutes
- Identify and accurately describe important objects added to the collection at the end.
PRODUCT
A two-sentence response naming the objects and explaining the note.
Essential question: Which new objects connected to Diggory does Oliver keep, and what does the note communicate?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 15 - ending - Diggory-related objects and the friendship note
- Prepared passages: Passage 15, Passage 16
- Passage 16 - ending - the Box of Shocks after Diggory's message
- Student response materials
Lesson sequence
1 Set the focus - 2 min Which new objects connected to Diggory does Oliver keep, and what does the note communicate?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 15, Passage 16 2 Work the evidence - 5 min Oliver keeps three objects tied to Diggory: glass from Bubbles's bowl, a cookie, and the note. Diggory's message shows gratitude and names Oliver as a friend.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 15, Passage 16 3 Make the student product - 3 min A two-sentence response naming the objects and explaining the note.
Teacher key
Oliver preserves the broken fishbowl glass, the cookie, and Diggory's note; the note thanks him and identifies him as a friend.
Support & extension
Above: Explain why Oliver may now consider these ordinary objects to be treasures, labeling the explanation as an interpretation.
Below: Use a two-column organizer labeled "Object" and "What it shows," with the three objects already listed.
Assessment
- • Names the broken glass, cookie, and note • Explains Diggory's message without adding
unsupported details • Cites both ending atoms
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