Third Grade February Unit 6 Biography Book Clubs

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Unit Objective: Students will learn about narrative non-fiction including Reading several biographies aloud (pg. 100) 3-5 across month biographies. Students will learn the format and structure of narrative nonRosa by Nikki Giovanni fiction texts. Readers learn that a biography is a factual text written in a story Find short biographies at Ducksters.com/biography format. Readers delve deeply into the life of the person they are reading Special Note: Book Clubs about,learning about the adversities that a person is faced with and Things to think about while setting up this unit for book club work: how they overcome those adversities. Materials: Biographies and narrative non-fiction leveled books as well as sticky notes Readers will learn information about the world they live in. Readers will learn the types of narrative non-fiction. Part 1: Literal / Craft Literal/Craft Skill/Strategy Skills/ Strategy Biography Readers Types of Nonfiction Character/Story Development Drawing Conclusions Evaluating and Verifying bring forward all we Today I want to teach you that Today I want to teach you that Today I want to teach you that as Today I want to teach you that as know about reading there are different types of now that we know the types of we read about the character in our we read from multiple sources, stories informational text. There are true non-fiction, we can get ourselves biographies, we develop a theory readers cross check the stories (narrative nonfiction) and ready to read biography by about them based on their actions information they read. With your all-about texts (little courses on a thinking about how it is set up. and interactions with other book club members you can topic). As readers we read these We take what we know about characters. Pg.102 /109 share out information you have non-fiction books in different stories and characters and bring it Drawing conclusions learned and check the validity of ways. to our biography reading. Character traits/motivations/ the information gathered. Pg. Pg. 102 /108 Pg.102/108-109 102-103. actions/ relationships with We look for: Sort into piles by modeling Draw upon on prior others (positive and with books from classroom Central character called negative) experience with other texts the subject about similar topics to Determine the type of book Pay close attention to the anticipate this texts content it is and decide how we will Subject often struggles daily actions of the subject and references. read it and faces hardships to and ask Who is in this achieve what they want persons life? How does Read narrative nonfiction that impact this person? the way we read narrative Story Arc What does this tell me about fiction (stories) (problem/solution) her as a person? Make an anchor chart Life lessons Book clubs discuss theories RI 3.1 RL 3.1 RL.3.10 RL 3.3 RL 3.11 RL 3.1 RL 3.3 SL 3.1 a b c d

Literal Craft Setting Today I want to teach you that biography readers learn a lot about history from studying the times and rules of the society in which the subject of the biography lived. Pg. 103/109 What am I learning about this persons life? What in the book is similar or different to my life? Create a Venn diagram to compare place, time and peoples behavior to our own. Book clubs discuss Venn diagrams

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Third Grade February Unit 6 Biography Book Clubs

Part 1: Continued Biography readers bring forward all we know about reading stories.

Strategy Skill Cause and Effect Today I want to teach you that as we read we constantly ask ourselves,How does what is happening now connect with what came before? Pgs. 103 and 109 Cause/Effect: There are things that happened earlier in this persons life that will influence the decisions he or she will make later in their life. How does the character respond to those life events? Book clubsticky notes: What has the story taught us so far? RI 3.3 RL 3.3

Part 2: Biography readers not only follow a life story, we also learn to grasp and grow ideas.

Literal Craft Finding Details Today I want to teach you that biography readers ask what important achievement or qualities made this persons life important enough to be written about. Pgs.104 and 109 Note the message a characters life offers us. Sticky notes

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Strategy Skill Identifying character traits Today I want to teach you that as biography readers, we study the choices a person made and we pick the precise word that makes this person unique. Pgs. 105 and 109 Sticky notes or graphic organizer to identify character traits. What evidence from the story supports the characters traits? Book clubs will discuss sticky notes RL 3.3 SL 3.1a b c d

Literal Craft Analyzing Time Period Today I want to teach you that biography readers note that often the subjects of our text represent a larger group of people in society. Pgs. 105 and 109 Does this person represent a group of people? What are we learning about this particular group? Example: Rosa Parks represented a group of people who were discriminated against. RI/RL 3.1 RI 3.3

Strategy/ Skill Strategy/Skill Interpreting characters Synthesis/ Life Lessons Today I want to teach you that as Today I want to teach you that biography readers, we understand biography readers are often the decisions the person has made inspired by a subjects life. We by putting ourselves in their read asking,What is the life shoes. lesson I am learning from this Pgs. 105 and 110 text? Pgs. 105 and 110 Judging the subjects against Readers take these life the specific circumstances in which he lived vs. analyzing lessons and use them as him in our context motivation to live life differently. Act out with partner an excerpt from the biography. Think about how you wish the world were and how you Discuss with partner how you will contribute to making felt as the subject. that vision of the world come true, now that you have read the story of others who made a difference. RL 3.3 RL 3.2 RL 3.6 RL 3.6

Third Grade February Unit 6 Biography Book Clubs

Part 3: Readers know that biography is but one form of narrative nonfiction.

Strategy Skill Compare/Contrast and Analyzing text structure Today I want to teach you that biography readers recognize other kinds of narrative nonfiction. Pgs.106and 110 Narratives involve time and a first/then/after that/next/finally sequence of events. Create a t-chart NarrativeNon-Fiction Historical Fiction

Literal Craft Text structure Today I want to teach you that readers recognize that most narrative non-fiction stories are either tales of achievement or tales of disaster. Pgs. 106 and 110 These types of stories follow a predictable pattern. Anchor chart to identify the patterns of an achievement story vs. a disaster story (box and bullets, T -chart etc.).

Literal Craft Central message/ Theme Today I want to teach you that readers of narrative non-fiction know that stories are told for a reason. When we uncover this reason, our understanding of the story takes on a whole new level. Book Club Discussion: Why was the story worth telling? What does it serve as an example of?

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Literal Craft Central Message/ Theme Today I am going to teach you that another way of determining anarrative texts overall theme is to study the choices a subject makes during a crucial time. Pgs. 107 and 110 Provide students with examples of overall themes such as: To raise a voice for the oppressed, to fight for a right, to take a risk by following a dream, to challenge the government etc. Book clubs review sticky notes and collaboratively determine the overall theme.

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Literal Craft Life Lesson Today I want to teach you that readers of narrative non-fiction read a story and think How will I live differently knowing that this happened in my world? We use the true stories that we read to serve as personal inspiration to be braver, stronger people. Pgs. 107-110 Teacher models by choosing one biography or narrative non-fiction text that resonated most for them and write about how the big message from this text has implications for their own life. See bulleted list on page 107. RL 3.2 RL 3.10 RL 3.11

Third Grade February Unit 6 Biography Book Clubs