Mini Lesson - Task3  - Individual Responsibility

Creators of Unit: Eleanor Gaffney, Brent Brown

District: White Plains

Title of Unit: Individual Responsibility

Title of Lesson: Analyzing literary documents 

Lesson Number:  1                   Duration of Lesson: 60 minutes

Outcomes:
Students will understand the task required in Task 3 of the ELA exam;
Students will read, interpret and compare multiple literary documents

Student Writing Task: Paraphrase literary texts

Regents Task Addressed: Task 3

Standards Addressed:
ELA:
2 -Read, write, listen and speak for literary response..
3- Read, write listen and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

Social studies: 

• Material examined contain historical content
• Skills used in interpreting these documents are applicable toward the Global History Regents Exam.

Materials/Resources:
Literature/Text

• Task Assignment
• Martin Luther King Jr. document
• Pastor Niemoller's Quote

• Hand students a copy of the situation and the task and ask them to read the assignment and underline key words
• Discuss the required components of the task and highlight the different parts to illustrate comprehension of the Task 3 requirements
• Students will read document 1 to themselves
• Students will pair together and discuss the main idea of the document 
• After the shared discussion, the students will individually paraphrase the main points of the document in two or these sentences
• Students will share their sentences with the entire group and discuss commonalities 
• Process will repeated for document 2

Assessment/ Evaluation :
Students will copy the shared group ideas on a separate sheet of paper and will bring the sheet to the next session.

Ideas for other Language Learners:

• Focus on key task vocabulary
• Reinforce methods of understanding unfamiliar vocabulary by using context clues and other techniques
• Assemble group ideas using a simple graphic organizer