Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
The Scarlet Ibis
Pages 592–607
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate theme in a short story
■ Draw conclusions about the narrator
Integrating Skills
Grammar
Vocabulary
■ Prepositional Phrases ■ Using Context Clues
■ Prepositional Phrases ■ Using Context to Determine
as Modifiers
the Meaning of Figurative Language
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.3, I-A.3.a, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2,
I-C.3, I-D.1.d, I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5, I-D.6,
II-A.1, II-A.2, II-A.3, II-A.4, II-B.1, III-A.1,
III-A.2, III-A.3, III-B.3
TerraNova Objectives
R.02a, R.03a, R.03b, R.04d, R.05a, R.05d,
R.05e, R.05f R.05g, V.35b
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Theme
Active Reading: Drawing Conclusions
About the Narrator
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 7
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 6
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 5
❑ PE pp. 592–607
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 4
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Theme
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T4, T7, T34
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T15
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Response to Narrator
Official Interview
Interpretive Essay
Activities and Explorations
Thoughtful Soliloquy
Homestead Map
Inquiry and Research
Odd Birds
Vocabulary in Action
Assessment Practice
Vocabulary Charades
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
The Scarlet Ibis
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Grammar in Context
Prepositional Phrases
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 8
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
Vocabulary Strategy
Relying on Context to Determine the
Meaning of Figurative Language
Grammar
Prepositional Phrases
Prepositional Phrases as Modifiers
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C63
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C108
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C109
Speaking and Listening
Debate
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Richard at Age Five by Alice Neel
Down Home by Tony Couch
Cross Curricular Link
American Studies/History
World War I
Multicultural
Bird Symbolism
Informal Assessment
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Homework Assignments
88
UNIT 4, PART 1 THE SCARLET IBIS
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 9
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 101–102
Other Teaching Materials
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Recognizing the Theme
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Lineage / The Courage That My Mother Had
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate two poems
■ Examine sound in poetry
■ Draw conclusions about the speaker
Pages 608–612
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.3a, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1.e, I-C.2, I-D.1,
I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.2, II-B.1,
III-B.4
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Objects of Prepositions
R.03b, R.05f, R.05g
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Sound Devices
Active Reading: Drawing Conclusions
About the Speaker
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 11
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 10
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ PE pp. 608–612
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Sound Devices
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T4, T7, T39
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T6
Choices and Challenges
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Writing Options
Last Will
Ancestor Poem
Activities and Explorations
Musical Settings
Art Accompaniment
Inquiry and Research
Family Interviews
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Lineage / The Courage That My Mother Had
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Grammar
Objects of Prepositions
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C83
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
The Way They Live
by Thomas Pollock Anshutz
Informal Assessment
Understanding Literary Elements
Assessment
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 103–104
90
UNIT 4, PART 1 LINEAGE / THE COURAGE THAT MY MOTHER HAD
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
My Papa’s Waltz / Grape Sherbet
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate two poems
■ Examine imagery in poetry
■ Analyze sensory details
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Prepositions and
Subordinating
Conjunctions
Pages 613–617
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.2, I-C.3, I-C.4, I-D.2, I-D.3,
I-D.5, II-A.1, II-A.2, II-B.2, III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
R.05f, R.05g
Vocabulary
Connotation and Denotation
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Imagery
Active Reading: Analyzing Sensory Details
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 13
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 12
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ PE pp. 613–617
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Imagery
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T16, T46
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T21
Choices and Challenges
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Writing Options
Memories in Verse
Mother’s Diary
Activities and Explorations
Artistic Response
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
My Papa’s Waltz / Grape Sherbet
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Vocabulary Strategy
Connotation and Denotation
Grammar
Prepositions and Subordinating
Conjunctions
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C64
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C84
Speaking and Listening
Oral Interpretation
Assessment
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 105–106
92
UNIT 4, PART 1 MY PAPA’S WALTZ / GRAPE SHERBET
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Marine Corps Issue
Pages 618–638
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a contemporary short story
■ Examine flashback in a short story
■ Recognize cause and effect in a short story
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Prepositions vs.
Adverbs
■ Appositive Phrases
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.2, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1c, I-C.1d, I-C.1.e,
I-C.2, I-C.3, I-D.1c, I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5,
I-D.6, II-A.1, II-A.2, II-A.3, II-A.4, II-B.1,
II-B.3, II-C.3, II-A.2, II-A.3, III-B.2
TerraNova Objectives
Vocabulary
Synonyms
■ Analogies
R.02a, R.03c, R.03e, R.05c, R.05d, R.05f,
V.35a, V.37a
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Synonyms
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Flashback
Active Reading: Recognizing
Cause and Effect
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 17
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 16
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 15
❑ PE pp. 618–638
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 14
Thinking Through the Literature
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Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Flashback
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T1, T57
Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Personal Response
Field Manual
Activities and Explorations
Quick Sketch
Inquiry and Research
Art Connection
Vocabulary in Action
Assessment Practice
Vocabulary Charades
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Marine Corps Issue
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Grammar in Context
Appositive Phrases
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 18
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Synonyms
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C65
Vocabulary Strategy
Analogies
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C66
Grammar
Prepositions vs. Adverbs
Appositive and Appositive Phrases:
Essential and Nonessential
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C85
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T59, C116
Speaking and Listening
Dramatic Performance:
Instruction
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
The Mighty Hand by Auguste Rodin
Art and Artie by Connie Hayes
Solitary Confinement: Insects Witness My Agony
by Theodore Gostas
Cross Curricular Links
Psychology
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Informal Assessment
Choosing the Best Summary
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Part Test
Test Generator
Homework Assignments
94
UNIT 4, PART 1 MARINE CORPS ISSUE
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 19
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 107–108
❑ Formal Assessment: Unit Four, Part 1 Test, pp. 109–110
Other Teaching Materials
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History
Vietnam War
Writing Workshop Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Response to Literature
Writing Prompt
Write a personal response to a short story
or a poem.
Pages 644–649
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.2, I-D.5, II-A.3, II-A.4,
II-B.2, II-C.3
TerraNova Objectives
L.38a, L.39a, R.07c, R.07d, R.08b, R.08c,
R.08d, R.08f, R.08h, R.09a, R.09b
Preparing to Read
Introduction
Basics in a Box
Using the Graphic
❑ Writing Transparencies and Copymasters, T11, T20, C31
Analyzing a Student Model
“Personal Response to ‘The Scarlet Ibis’”
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Student Models, pp. 26–31
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Writing
Prewriting
Choosing a Subject
Planning the Response to Literature
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Prewriting, p. 21
Drafting
Organizing the Draft
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Drafting and Elaboration, p. 22
Peer Review
Ask Your Peer Reader
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Peer Response Guide, pp. 23–24
Revising
Using Active Voice
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading, p. 25
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Rubric for Evaluation, p. 32
Editing and Proofreading
Misplaced Modifiers
Reflecting
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Writing Workshop Lesson Plan (continued)
Response to Literature
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
96
UNIT 4, PART 1 WRITING WORKSHOP
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
from Black Boy
Pages 654–662
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate an autobiographical excerpt
■ Examine dialogue
■ Make inferences
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Gerunds and
Gerund Phrases
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-D.1c, I-D.2,
I-D.5, II-A.2, II-B.1, II-C.3, III-A.2, III-A.3
TerraNova Objectives
R.02a, R.04b, R.04d, R.05a, R.05d, R.05g,
V.37a
Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Dialogue
Active Reading: Making Inferences
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 36
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 35
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 34
❑ PE pp. 654–662
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 33
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Dialogue
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T7, T19
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T13
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Letter of Recommendation
Inner Dialogue
Activities and Explorations
Black Boy Skit
Musical Expression
Art Connection
Vocabulary in Action
Context Clues
Grammar in Context
Gerund Phrases
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 37
Author Activity
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
from Black Boy
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C67
Grammar
Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C114
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Brown Boy by Lois Mailou Jones
Portrait of My Father by Archibald J. Motley, Jr.
Cross Curricular Link
History
Jim Crow Laws and Segregation
Informal Assessment
Choosing the Best Summary
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 38
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 111–112
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UNIT 4, PART 2 from BLACK BOY
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Daughter of Invention
Pages 663–678
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a short story
■ Examine author’s perspective and characterization
■ Understand characterization in a short story
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Verbals
■ Participle, Gerund,
and Verb Phrases
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.3, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1c, I-C.1d, I-C.2,
I-C.3, I-D.1d, I-D.2, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.1,
II-A.2, II-A.3, II-A.4, II-B.1, II-C.2, II-C.3,
III-A.2, III-A.3, III-B.2, III-B.4
TerraNova Objectives
Vocabulary
Using Reference Materials
R.02a, R.04b, R.04d, R.05a, R.05d, R.05f,
R.05g, V.37a
■
■
Context Clues to Determine Idioms
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Reference
Materials
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Author’s Perspective
and Characterization
Active Reading: Understanding Characterization
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 42
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 41
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 40
❑ PE pp. 663–678
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 39
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Author’s Perspective
and Characterization
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T23, T50
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T10
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Persuasive Letter
Comparison Paragraph
Wacky-Character Sketch
Activities and Explorations
Untangling Sayings
Inquiry and Research
Comparing Cultures
Whose Invention?
Vocabulary in Action
Context Clues
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Daughter of Invention
Choices and Challenges (continued)
Grammar in Context
Participial Phrases
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 43
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Reference Materials
Vocabulary Strategy
Rely on Context to Determine
Meanings of Idioms
Grammar
Using Verbs: Verbals
Participle, Gerund, and Verb Phrases
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C68
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C69
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T60, C110
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T60, C111
Speaking and Listening
Giving a Speech
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Primavera by Michael Bergt
Pedro Manach by Pablo Picasso
Cross Curricular Link
History
Rafael Trujillo, The Dictator of the
Dominican Republic
Informal Assessment
Perceive Cause and Effect
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Homework Assignments
100 UNIT 4, PART 2 DAUGHTER OF INVENTION
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 44
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 113–114
Other Teaching Materials
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Assessment
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
A Voice / The Journey
Pages 680–685
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate two poems
■ Examine author’s perspective and diction
■ Understand diction in poetry
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1c, I-C.2, I-D.2,
I-D.5, II-A.2, II-B.2, II-C.2, II-C.3, III-A.3,
III-B.4
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Parallel Compound
Predicates
R.02a, R.05d, R.05f, R.05g, R.07c
Vocabulary
Word Connotations
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Author’s Perspective
and Diction
Active Reading: Understanding Diction
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 46
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 45
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ PE pp. 680–685
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Author’s Perspective
and Diction
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T47
Choices and Challenges
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Writing Options
Letter of Praise
Personal Narrative
Activities and Explorations
Spiritual Map
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
A Voice / The Journey
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Vocabulary Strategy
Interpreting the Connotative Power
of Words
Grammar
Parallel Compound Predicates
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C70
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C103
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Girls from Guadalupita by Miguel Martinez
Assessment
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 115–116
102 UNIT 4, PART 2 A VOICE / THE JOURNEY
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Only Daughter
Pages 694–700
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a personal essay
■ Identify and examine theme in a personal essay
■ Understand generalizations
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.3, I-A.3a, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1d, I-C.2,
I-D.1c, I-D.2, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.2, II-B.3,
III-A.1, III-A.3, III-B.3
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Modifiers in
Comparisons
Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
R.02a, R.03a, R.03f, R.05b, R.05d, R.05f,
R.05g, V.37a
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Theme
Active Reading: Understanding Generalizations
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 51
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 50
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 49
❑ PE pp. 694–700
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 48
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Theme
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T14
❑ Literary Analysis Transparencies, T15
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Choices and Challenges
Writing Options
Five-Minute Dialogue
A Prose Poem
A Stamp of Approval
Activities and Explorations
Family Interview
Gender Roles
Genealogical Diagram
Inquiry and Research
Mexican-American Culture
The Language of Literature, Grade 9
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
Only Daughter
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C71
Grammar
Modifiers in Comparisons
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, T52, C163
Viewing and Representing
Art Appreciation
Student with Guitar by Simon Samsonian
Informal Assessment
Choosing the Best Summary
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 52
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 117–118
104 UNIT 4, PART 2 ONLY DAUGHTER
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
The House on Mango Street
Pages 701–709
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate autobiographical vignettes
■ Draw conclusions about character
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Infinitives and
Infinitive Phrases
Vocabulary
■ Idiomatic Phrases
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1c, I-C.1d, I-C.2, I-C.3,
I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5, II-A.1, II-A.2, II-A.3,
II-A.4, II-B.1, II-C.3, II-C.4, III-A.2, III-A.3,
III-B.2
TerraNova Objectives
R.03b, R.05f, R.05g
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Vignette
Active Reading: Drawing Conclusions
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 55
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 54
❑ PE pp. 701–709
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 53
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Vignette
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T4, T47
Choices and Challenges
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Writing Options
Critic’s Essay
Dialogue
Activities and Explorations
Opera Recording
Vignette Illustration
Grammar in Context
Infinitive Phrases
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Grammar SkillBuilder, p. 56
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105
Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
The House on Mango Street
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Vocabulary Strategy
Idiomatic Phrases
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C72
Grammar
Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C115
Speaking and Listening
Oral Interpretation
Cross Curricular Link
History
Immigration to America’s Cities
Informal Assessment
Point of View
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 57
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 119–120
106 UNIT 4, PART 2 THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
Selection Lesson Plan
Name
Date
On Writing The House on Mango Street
Core Objectives
■ Understand and appreciate a personal essay
■ Examine voice in an essay
■ Identify the main idea and summarize
Pages 711–719
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Language Arts Benchmarks
I-A.1, I-B.2, I-C.1, I-C.1c, I-C.2, I-C.3,
I-D.2, I-D.3, I-D.5, I-D.6, II-A.1, II-A.2,
II-B.2, III-A.3, III-B.4
TerraNova Objectives
Integrating Skills
Grammar
■ Modifiers: Degrees
of Comparison
■ Problems with
Modifiers
R.02b, R.03f, R.04d, R.05a, R.05b, R.05g
Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
■
Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
Build Background
Vocabulary Preview: Using Context Clues
Focus Your Reading
Literary Analysis: Voice
Active Reading: Main Idea and Summarizing
Teaching the Literature
Reading the Selection
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Words to Know SkillBuilder, p. 61
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Literary Analysis SkillBuilder, p. 60
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Active Reading SkillBuilder, p. 59
❑ PE pp. 711–719
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Summary, p. 58
Thinking Through the Literature
Connect to the Literature
Think Critically
Extend Interpretations
Literary Analysis: Voice
❑ Reading and Critical Thinking Transparencies, T12, T52
Choices and Challenges
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Writing Options
Character Sketch
Activities and Explorations
Inspirational Poster
Inquiry and Research
Inspiring Models
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Selection Lesson Plan (continued)
On Writing The House on Mango Street
Teaching Options (from Teacher’s Edition)
Mini Lessons
Preteaching Vocabulary
Using Context Clues
❑ Vocabulary Transparencies and Copymasters, C73
Grammar
Modifiers: Degrees of Comparison
Problems with Modifiers
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C161
❑ Grammar Transparencies and Copymasters, C165
Speaking and Listening
Role-Playing
Assessment
Selection Quiz
Selection Test
Part Test
Test Generator
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Selection Quiz, p. 62
❑ Formal Assessment: Selection Test, pp. 121–122
❑ Formal Assessment: Unit Four, Part 2 Test, pp. 123–124
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Writing Workshop Lesson Plan
Name
Date
Character Sketch
Writing Prompt
Write a character sketch of someone
you know or admire.
Pages 720–725
NEW MEXICO PLANNER
Language Arts Benchmarks
I-C.1, I-C.2, I-D.5, II-B.3, II-C.1, II-C.2
TerraNova Objectives
R.08b, R.08c, R.08d, R.08f, R.08h, R.09a,
R.09b
Preparing to Read
Introduction
Basics in a Box
Using the Graphic
❑ Writing Transparencies and Copymasters, T11, T20, C32
Analyzing a Student Model
“The Bear“
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Student Models, pp. 68–73
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Writing
Prewriting
Choosing a Character
Planning the Character Sketch
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Prewriting, p. 63
Drafting
Show Rather than Tell
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Drafting and Elaboration, p. 64
Peer Review
Ask Your Peer Reader
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Peer Response Guide, pp. 65–66
Revising
Word Choice
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading, p. 67
❑ Unit Four Resource Book: Rubric for Evaluation, p. 74
Editing and Proofreading
Personal Pronouns
Reflecting
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Writing Workshop Lesson Plan (continued)
Character Sketch
Other Teaching Materials
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Homework Assignments
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