Ready-to-teach lesson
Analyze Point of View
Duck! Rabbit! - Grade K - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
15 minutes Collect the two names the voices give the same thing, and explain A three-row sheet of paired how they end up swapping sides. names, plus what happens at the end Essential question:
Both of them are certain, and they cannot both be right. Or can they?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 1 - the first page
- One paired-names sheet each
- Passage 2 - the second exchange
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 2, Passage 7
Lesson sequence
1 Launch - 3 min
- Passage 7 - flying or hopping
- Focus:
- A question the book answers yes to
- Teacher direction:
- Can two people look at the same picture and honestly see two different things?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Teacher model - 5 min
- Teacher model:
- I read the second exchange, and notice how sure they both are. One says it is totally a duck. The other says it is for sure a rabbit. Neither of them is guessing, and neither of them is lying.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 2 3 The same shape, named twice - 7 min
- Focus:
- Three exchanges, all the same shape
page 1
- Teacher direction:
- Using Passages 1, 2 and 7, write the two names for each thing they look at.
- Expected answer:
- It is a duck and it is a rabbit. It is totally a duck and it is for sure a rabbit. It is flying and it is hopping. The pattern is the same every time: one voice names the animal or what it is doing, and the other gives that exact thing a different name without ever saying the first voice cannot see properly - only that it is looking at the wrong animal.
- Student product:
- A three-row sheet: one name, and the other
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1, Passage 2, Passage 7
Support & extension
Above: Neither voice is lying and neither can see better than the other.
Below: Three rows of paired names, then the ending.
Assessment
- Gives both names for the animal
- Gives both names for what it is doing
- Says how sure each voice is
- Explains what each one thinks at the end
- Says whether the picture ever changes
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