January 22-23, 2014

7th Grade ELAMs. Hines

Get Ready!• Enter quietly and get your binder off the shelf.• Sit in your assigned seat.

– If you are new, please have a seat at the Genius Bar (small group)

• Place your backpacks under your desk.• Complete Calendar Journal entries.

– 1/23: Write about a time that you misbehaved.– 1/22: I wish I could see _______ because ______.– 1/21: Have you ever been blamed for something that you did

not do?– 1/20: Free Space BUT It must relate to Dr. King.– 1/17: I wish I could forget the time I ____________ because

_____________.

Essential Question

Why do people

misbehave?

In today’s lesson we will:

• RL 3: Analyze how particular elements of a story interact

• L 4b: Use Latin roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

• SL 1: Engage in a collaborative discussion with my group on the behaviors of both characters.

1.Make a list of ways you have seen people misbehave. (For example, disrupting class by throwing paper or yelling at a funeral.)

2. What are reasons people may misbehave?

3. Does bad behavior sometimes get people what they want?

Key Idea:

No one’s behavior is always perfect. When we misbehave, sometimes we do so for a reason – although that doesn’t mean it’s a good one. In the stories that you are about to read, an elderly woman and a young boy misbehave at important milestones in their lives.

• When you set a purpose for reading, you choose specific reasons for reading one or more texts.

• Your purpose for reading “The Three-Century Woman” and “Charles” is to find similarities and differences between the two main characters.

Link to the stories online

http://erick1griffith.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/file/view/The+Three-Century+Woman+%26+Charles.pdf

Links to listen to the story are located on our class blog.

1. Independent Reading Read “Charles” by Shirley Jackson

(Lit. book pp. 250-254). Read “The Three Century Woman”

by Richard Peck Story is located online (See

today’s blog post)2. Students will work as a partnership to

complete the reading guide.

45 MINUTES

Closing