Lesson 2: Young Adult Literature Short Story
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to:
-Read & annotate
-Identify characteristics of YAL in the text
-Complete Literature Circle Documents
-Participate in a Literature Circle based on the text
-Reflect on the Circle Discussion and text through writing
What do you wonder?
What do you notice?
What can you: Predict? Clarify? Connect to? Visualize? What is the gist?
What characteristics of Young Adult Literature are present in this text?
RL/I.9-10.1, RL/I.9-10.4, RL/I..9-10.10; SL.9-10.1, SL.9-10.3, SL.8.4; L.9-10.4, L.8.6
1 & 2
Text Chunking
Guiding Questions
Sentence Starters & Response Frames
Small Group Support
Graphic Organizers
Visual Glossary
Modeling
Think-a-Louds
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Quiz questions, Open-Ended Response Questions, Discussion, Completion of Literature Circle Document, and Notes