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New York State Common Core English Language Arts Curriculum GRADE 4 Module 1B Unit 3 Gist Recording Form Name: Date: Part Gist (what the text is mostly about) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 How does this text fit the definition of a biography? Give an example from the text. 1 Author’s Note: A River of Words Jen Bryant, A River of Words © 2008 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by permission of the publisher; all rights reserved. 2 Close Reading Questions and Notes: Author’s Note Name: Date: Directions Questions and Answers Read the first paragraph 1. What is the gist of the first paragraph? again silently. Reread the first two 2. What did William Carlos Williams do as a doctor? Use evidence sentences of the text. from the text to support your answer. 3. How do the words in parentheses help you understand the meaning of these last two sentences? Reread the sentence 4. Why is that the most important part of the sentence? beginning with, “Williams made house calls …” Underline the most important part of the sentence. 3 Close Reading Questions and Notes: Author’s Note Directions Questions and Answers Reread the rest of the text 5. Based on the text, what can you infer happened during the Great starting from with “During Depression? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. the Great Depression …” 6. How did William Carlos Williams help people during this time in history? 7. What is the main idea of this paragraph? STOP HERE 4 Close Reading Questions and Notes: Author’s Note Directions Questions and Answers Reread the second 8. What is the gist of the second paragraph? paragraph again silently. Reread the third paragraph 9. What is the gist of the third paragraph? again silently. Reread the first sentence of Paragraph 2. Underline the most important part of the sentence. Read the next two sentences 10. In your own words, explain how William Carlos Williams’s poetry of Paragraph 2 beginning changed over time. with, “In his earliest verses …” 5 Close Reading Questions and Notes: Author’s Note Directions Questions and Answers Reread the second 1. What is the gist of the second paragraph? paragraph again silently. Reread the third paragraph 2. What is the gist of the third paragraph? again silently. Reread the first sentence of Paragraph 2. Underline the most important part of the sentence. Read the next two sentences 3. In your own words, explain how William Carlos Williams’s poetry of Paragraph 2 beginning changed over time. with, “In his earliest verses …” 6 Close Reading Questions and Notes: Author’s Note Directions Questions and Answers Reread the final two 4. What are some everyday objects William Carlos Williams was sentences of Paragraph 2 inspired by? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. beginning with, “But perhaps his most important contribution …” Reread “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams: So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. 7 Close Reading Questions and Notes: Author’s Note Directions Questions and Answers Reread the final sentence 5. In your own words, explain why he stripped away the unnecessary beginning with, “By details. stripping away …” 6. Underline the sentence that you think contains the main idea in this paragraph. 8 Carousel of Poets Note-catcher Name: Date: Directions: Record something you notice or something you like for each of the resources you visit. Name of Resource Notices or Likes 9 Carousel of Poets Note-catcher Name of Resource Notices or Likes 10 Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) By Jayson Fleischer. Copyright © 2014 by the American Reading Company 11 Valerie Worth (October 29, 1933 – July 31, 1994) By Jayson Fleischer and Megan Roszkowski. Copyright © 2014 by the American Reading Company 12 “Finding Your Voice” (Biography of Walter Dean Myers) 13 “Finding Your Voice” (Biography of Walter Dean Myers) From Scholastic News, April 4, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Scholastic Inc. Reprinted by permission of Scholastic Inc. 14 Biography of Poet Gist Recording Form: Robert Frost Name: Date: Directions: 1. Read the biography all the way through as a group. Decide who will read which paragraphs aloud as the rest of the group follows along silently. 2. Work together as a group to find the gist of each paragraph. 3. Record the gist of each paragraph on your Biography of Poet Gist recording form. Paragraph Gist (what is your initial sense of what the paragraph is mostly about?) Number 1. 2. 3. 4. 15 Biography of Poet Gist Recording Form: Valerie Worth Name: Date: Directions: 4. Read the biography all the way through as a group. Decide who will read which paragraphs aloud as the rest of the group follows along silently. 5. Work together as a group to find the gist of each paragraph. 6. Record the gist of each paragraph on your Biography of Poet Gist recording form. Paragraph Gist (what is your initial sense of what the paragraph is mostly about?) Number 1. 2. 3. 4. 16 Biography of Poet Gist recording form: Walter Dean Myers Name: Date: Directions: 1. Read the biography all the way through as a group. Decide who will read which paragraphs aloud as the rest of the group follows along silently. 2. Work together as a group to find the gist of each paragraph. 3. Record the gist of each paragraph on your Biography of Poet Gist recording form. Section Gist (what is your initial sense of what this section is mostly about?) 1. Up to, “… it would officially be considered a poem.” 2. Giving Voice to Many 3. Poetry Today 17 Biography of Poet Text-Dependent Questions: Robert Frost Name: Date: Directions: 1. Read the questions carefully. 2. Refer to the text to find the answers. 3. Use evidence from the text in your answers. Question Answer (include evidence from the text) 1. The text says that Robert Frost became a world- renowned poet. World- renowned means famous around the world, but Robert Frosts didn’t start off famous. When did he publish his first poem? 2. What caused Robert Frost to believe that he may have a career as a successful poet? 3. Rural means in the countryside rather than in the town. What was Robert Frost inspired by? 18 Biography of Poet Text-Dependent Questions: Robert Frost Question Answer (include evidence from the text) 4. Why did Robert and Elinor move to England? 5. The text says that traditional poetry used precise meters, which are precise rhythms. In your own words, explain how poetry was changing at the time of Robert Frost? 6. A conversation is when people speak to each other. So what do you think a conversational style might be in poetry? 7. How was Robert Frost’s poetry different? 8. What is the main idea of the final paragraph beginning with, “In 1924, Frost won …”? 19 Biography of Poet Text-Dependent Questions: Valerie Worth Name: Date: Directions: 1. Read the questions carefully. 2. Refer to the text to find the answers. 3. Use evidence from the text in your answers. Question Answer (include evidence from the text) 1. On the side means as a hobby outside of work. What did Valerie Worth do on the side when she worked at Yale University Press? 2. How did meeting Natalie Babbitt help Valerie Worth’s poetry career? 3. What inspired Valerie Worth? 20 Biography of Poet Text-Dependent Questions: Valerie Worth Question Answer (include evidence from the text) 4. What did she write her poetry about? Why? 5. Free verse means without rhyming. How was her poetry different from that of many other poets at the time? 6. What is the main idea of the final paragraph beginning with, “Worth and her husband had three children …”? 21 Biography of Poet Text-Dependent Questions: Walter Dean Myers Name: Date: Directions: 1. Read the questions carefully. 2. Refer to the text to find the answers. 3. Use evidence from the text in your answers. Question Answer (include evidence from the text) 1. A speech impediment is a when someone has difficulty speaking. How did poetry help Walter Dean Myers with his speech impediment? 2. When it says he used poetry to give the community, including kids, “a voice,” what do you think that means? 3. The text says, “He uses poetry to showcase the diversity and beauty of the city.” Diversity is when people or things are different from each other. Explain in your own words what this sentence means. 22 Biography of Poet Text-Dependent Questions: Walter Dean Myers Question Answer (include evidence from the text) 4. How is Walter Dean Myers’s idea of beauty different from that of most people? 5. According to Walter Dean Myers, what does poetry give to kids? 6. What is the main idea of the final paragraph with the heading “Poetry Today”? 23 Exit Ticket Name: Date: Directions: List three important things you now know about the life of your poet. 1. 2. 3. 24 Homework: Further Questions Name: Date: Directions: Record two questions you now have about your poet. 1. 2. 25 Important Events and Information Note-catcher Name: Date: Directions: 1. Read the first paragraph of your poet’s biography as a group. 2. Discuss with your group which information you think is the most important and why. 3. When you all agree on what the most important information is, underline it on your biography. 4. Repeat with the next paragraphs, until you have worked your way through the whole biography. 5. Record the important events and information that you have underlined on the note-catcher below.