Analyze Character and Setting

Ready-to-teach lesson

The Three Silly Billies - Grade K - Short lesson

TIME

OBJECTIVE

PRODUCT

17 minutes Describe the Troll and the place he works, using the words and the A labelled picture of the bridge, pictures together. and a list of what he always does Essential question: What has this book done to the troll from the old story?

Materials

Text to mark

The book

One labelling sheet each

Prepared passages: Passage 3, Passage 24, Passage 32

Lesson sequence

1 Launch - 3 min

Passage 3 - the face under the hard hat, which is lettered

TROLLGATE PLAZA

Passage 24 - the sound of somebody coming, and a sign reading

TOLL $1

Passage 32 - back to the booth again

Focus:: Not the troll they were expecting
Teacher direction:: Ask the class to picture a troll under a bridge before you show them one. Take their descriptions. Then hold up the page with his face on it.
Prepared text:: Passage 3 2 Teacher model - 5 min 3 What the pictures tell you about his job - 9 min
Focus:: A hard hat, a sign, a booth

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Teacher direction:: Using Passages 3, 24 and 32, write down everything that shows this bridge is being run like a road and not like a fairy tale.

Expected answer:: His hard hat has the name of a plaza printed on it, the kind of name a motorway service station has. There is a hand-painted sign by the bridge saying what the crossing costs, a dollar. The bridge has a painted line down the middle of it like a road. He works out of a booth, and every time he gives up on somebody he stomps back into it, which is what the book calls a toll booth. And his own badge gives his first name, which is what a person at work wears and not what a monster under a bridge wears.
Student product:: A list of what shows the job, from the words and the pictures
Prepared text:: Passage 3, Passage 24, Passage 32

Support & extension

Above: The book never says what happened to the Troll at the end. Explain what you think happened and which parts of the last picture tell you.

Below: Label the hat, the sign and the booth, then write what he always does.

Assessment

Describes the Troll as a small grumpy man, not a monster

Names something written in a picture: the hat, the sign or the badge

Says he wants a dollar to let anybody cross

Gives the three things he does every time

Says the last picture shows somebody else has the bridge now

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