Ready-to-teach lesson
Everybody Tells Him No
When Pigs Fly - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
15 minutes Collect the people who tell Ralph what cannot be done, and say what he answers each of them.
PRODUCT
Rows for each person who tells Ralph no, with a box for what they say cannot be done cannot be done Essential question: How many people tell Ralph he is wrong, and does any of it stop him?
Materials
Text to mark
- The book The objection pages copied
- Passage 4 - two cows in a field with pigs lying about in the foreground
- Prepared passages: Passage 4, Passage 5, Passage 10
- Passage 5 - an enormous cow's flank filling the page, tiny figures below
Lesson sequence
1 The first two - 4 min
- Passage 10 - two pigs looking up at a departing helicopter
- Focus:
- An objection repeated by a friend
- Teacher model:
- Read these pages and ask who has said it and what they said.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 4, Passage 5 2 Fill the rows - 7 min 3 The last one - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Say who calls after him at the end and what he answers.
- Expected answer:
- A friend - and his answer is that they do not do it yet.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 10
Support & extension
Above: Say why the author has so many different people make the same objection.
Below: Name two people who tell Ralph something cannot be done.
Assessment
- Names at least three of the objectors
- Notices they all say much the same thing
- Says Ralph's answer is the same every time
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