Ready-to-teach lesson
Speaker Development
Crazy for California - Grade 2 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE
- 10 minutes
- Describe how the speaker's presentation changes within the Malibu passage.
PRODUCT
A before-and-after statement about the speaker's Malibu experience.
Essential question: How does the speaker's description of the Malibu adventure change from beginning to end?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book
- Prepared passages: Passage 5
- Passage 5 - Malibu - the surfing story revealed as a movie-set performance
- Student response materials
Lesson sequence
1 Start with the character - 2 min How does the speaker's description of the Malibu adventure change from beginning to end?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5 2 Work the evidence - 5 min At first the adventure sounds real. By the end, the speaker identifies it as a staged performance.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5 3 Make the student product - 3 min A before-and-after statement about the speaker's Malibu experience.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 5
Teacher key
The speaker first seems to be surfing in Malibu but then explains that the action is make-believe on a movie set. : explains that the action is make-believe on a movie set.
Support & extension
Above: Explain how the reveal changes the way a reader understands the earlier surfing claims.
Below: Use the frame: At first the speaker seems to ___; later the speaker reveals ___.
Assessment
- • Explains what the speaker first appears to be doing • Includes the later movie-set reveal
Essential question: How does the speaker's description of the Malibu adventure change from beginning to end?
- The speaker first seems to be surfing in Malibu but then explains that the action is make-believe
on a movie set
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