DeKalb Middle School Weekly Lesson Plan Teacher: Fitzgerald * Teaching Structures: Week of: 10/30-11/03/2017 (O) one lead, one support (A) alternative teaching Subject: Library (S) station teaching (T) team teaching Class Hour: (P) parallel teaching

Target Students: Students with Special Needs:

Day/Date Big Idea/ Assessment Goals Lesson Activities *Teaching Structure Standard/Modified Essential Question (State at beginning and exit ticket) Explain the function 1. Read from A Year Down Yonder modeling 6/7/8.L.VAU.5 When Explain the difference One lead of figurative close reading. Students will answer questions reading, listening, between fiction and language in on text read. writing, & speaking nonfiction books? Monday literature. 2. Students will demonstrate an understanding explain the function of of the Dewey Decimal System by arranging figurative language. library books correctly. Analyze how specific 1. Read from A Year Down Yonder 6/7/8.RL.KID.3 Analyze Articulate the One lead elements of a story modeling close reading. Students will how specific elements of meaning of the propel the action of answer questions on text read. a story (dialogue, literary term “setting.” Tuesday the story. 2. Students will work in centers or on incidents, setting) propel group activities. the action of the story.

Analyze what a text 1. Read from A Year Down Yonder 6/7/8.RL.KID.1: Analyze Articulate the One lead says & draw logical modeling close reading. Students will what a text says & draw meaning of to infer. inferences by citing answer questions on text read. logical inferences by Wednesday textual evidence. 2. Students will work in centers or on citing textual evidence. group activities.

To engage 1. Read from A Year Down Yonder modeling 6/7/8.SL.CC.1 Engage Define protagonist One lead effectively with close reading. Students will answer questions effectively with varied and antagonist. varied partners. on text read. partners, building on Thursday 2.Students will work in centers or on group others’ ideas and activities. expressing your own ideas clearly.

Determine the meaning 1. Read from A Year Down Yonder modeling 6/7/8.L.VAU.4 Explain how to One lead of unknown words close reading. Students will define text-related Determine the meaning determine the meaning through use of context. words using context. of unknown words of words by using Friday 2. Students will read “Battle of the Bots” through use of context. context. and answer questions on text.