Lesson 12: Hotel Rwanda
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
After an initial reading and discussion of the drama, students will be able to use textual evidence and prior knowledge to make inferences about the setting, characters, conflict, and plot events in the screenplay.
How can one person’s heroic actions against the backdrop of a violent civil war remind us of our shared humanity? As students read, they will think about how cultural differences, when taken to extremes, can threaten social bonds.
adult
classic
contemporary
drama
highlight
humanism
profane
rational
sacred
tense
CCSS: L.9-10.6
DOK 1 -4
visual glossary
speaking frames
annotation guide
SSYNC embedded scaffolds
SSYNC extension activities
Have students independently read and annotate the excerpt. Ask students to use the annotation tool as they read to
- use context clues to analyze and determine the meaning of the bolded vocabulary terms and note unfamiliar vocabulary
- ask questions about passages of the text that may be unclear or unresolved
- identify key details, events, characters, and connections between them
- make inferences by combining your own knowledge with clues from the text
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