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Grade 6: Module 1: Unit 1: Lesson 12
Teaching Notes
Alignment to Assessment Standards and Purpose of Lesson
„ L.6.4b – Opening A: Students complete an entrance ticket in which they break down an unfamiliar word from chapter 10 of The Lightning Thief into a recognizable prefix, root word, and su x.
„ RL.6.1–WorkTimeA:Studentsreadthenextchapterofthetextandfindthegist.Students also unpack unfamiliar vocabulary and answer comprehension questions using inferences and evidence from text.
„ RL.6.3 – Work Time A: After students finish reading, they are invited to discuss the challenges that Percy faced in chapter 10, describe his responses to those challenges, and speculate about connections between his actions and his character.
„ RL.6.2 – Work Time B: Students participate in a movement activity to demonstrate understanding of theme as distinct from main ideas or topics. This lesson acts as an introduction to the literacy concept of theme. Students engage in a deeper dive of this concept in Unit 2. Their examination of the narrator’s point of view thus far in the novel should begin to reveal the themes, or messages, that the author believes are important.
„ RL.6.1 – Closing and Assessment A: Students complete a QuickWrite that requires them to use textual evidence to support their analysis of theme in The Lightning Thief.
„ RL.6.2 – Closing and Assessment A: Students analyze themes in The Lightning Thief through a QuickWrite.
Opportunities to Extend Learning
„ Encourage students to identify the theme in several popular novels and movies. If some students are pre-taught about theme, they could aid in delivering this lesson by preparing visuals (posters, slideshows) in advance that illustrate examples of themes in well-known texts and movies.
„ Students who have been introduced to the archetype of Hero’s Journey in a previous lesson may be tempted to label “Hero’s Journey” as a theme. Remind them that a theme is the message, or lesson, that an author reveals through a significant and repeated idea in a text.
„ Invite students to analyze point of view in the chapter.
How It Builds on Previous Work
„ In the previous lesson, students completed the mid-unit assessment that focused on point of view. Students continue to analyze how the author develops the narrator’s point of view in future lessons. This lesson focuses on theme as an introduction to a more extensive examination of theme in Unit 2. Theme is often revealed through the narrator’s point of view which students have practiced analyzing several times by this point in Unit 1.
Support All Students
„ Note there is a di erentiated version of the QuickWrite: Theme in The Lightning Thief used in Closing and Assessment A in the separate Teacher's Guide for English Language Learners.
„ Students may need additional support discerning theme from topic. Remind students that the themes of a text are the statements or observations that an author is making about life.
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