Ready-to-teach lesson
Evidence-Based Discussion
Box of Shocks (EBook) - Grade 5 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE
- 10 minutes
- Discuss a character judgment by integrating two complementary pieces of explicit evidence.
PRODUCT
A brief spoken claim followed by evidence from both parents' statements.
Essential question: Do Oliver's parents approve of what he did, or do they make a more complicated judgment?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book
- Prepared passages: Passage 12, Passage 13
- Student response materials
Lesson sequence
1 Set the focus - 2 min
- Passage 12 - the parents criticize Oliver's trespassing and dangerous escape
- Passage 13 - Dad recognizes Oliver's helpful intention
Do Oliver's parents approve of what he did, or do they make a more complicated judgment?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 12, Passage 13 2 Work the evidence - 5 min The parents make a mixed judgment. They condemn the trespassing and dangerous escape, yet Dad acknowledges that Oliver accepted risk because he wanted to help Diggory.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 12, Passage 13 3 Make the student product - 3 min A brief spoken claim followed by evidence from both parents' statements.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 12, Passage 13
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Teacher key
Oliver's parents do not approve of entering the house or escaping through the window, but they recognize that he was trying to help Diggory.
Support & extension
Above: Evaluate whether intentions should affect consequences, while keeping the discussion anchored in the parents' actual statements.
Below: Give students two cards labeled "unsafe decisions" and "helpful intention" and ask them to sort each parent's point before speaking.
Assessment
- • Explains that the parents criticize Oliver's choices • Explains that they recognize his good
intention • Responds to another interpretation using the cited evidence
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