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Subject: Reading Central Focus: Social Issues and how students can be heroes to a
cause they feel strong in acting against.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
Date submitted: March 21, 2018
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view
Date taught: March 21, 2018
influences how events are described.
Given a website, mentor text, and the students’ background information on social issues, students will analyze people’s
efforts in combating social issues present in the world today. They will complete a notecard based off the information
they learn in the presentations later in class with 80% accuracy.
Prior Knowledge:
Background knowledge of social issues
Books read previously dealing with social issues
“Today we are going to continue to learn about social issues that occur in the
world today.”
1. Focus and Review “Turn and talk to a partner next to you…what are some social issues you
know about or have read recently in class?”
Ask for a few partners to share out the issues they discussed. Ask them to start
brainstorming different social issues throughout this lesson.
Read students mentor text - One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay And The
Recycling Women Of The Gambia (8 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHskUChyKgs
“In Njau, we see the ways plastic bags were thrown on the ground
when they broke littering the streets as mosquito-infested waters
pooled in them and animals’ lives were threatened. Ask students to
consider these actions from a social justice perspective. Specifically,
you can support students to think about the lack of local resources in
Njau for trash disposal and compare it with resources in your students’
local community. Do they, for example, have local recycling centers
and grocery store collection of used plastic bags? What should the
global response be to help parts of the world with fewer internal
resources?”
WHILE I’m reading - The author put this here…why did they do? That makes
4. Guided Practice
me think…the social issue is…because…
Read a few of the stories as examples as students jot down ideas in their
notebooks of what social issue they may want to take action against.
“You’ve been reading your social issues book…5 minutes brainstorming ways
you can be a hero as a 5th grader to fix the social issues in your books –
bullying, foster care, etc.”
5. Independent Practice “What could you do as a 5th grader to fix the issue of foster care in the United
States?”
Students will research their choice of social issue on their Chromebooks and
will create a presentation of the action they will take as “Kid Heroes” against
a certain social issue.
The students must clearly identify what social issue they chose, be specific in
the action they are taking against the social issue, and why it is important to
take the stand.
Pass out a notecard to each student. This notecard will be used to write about
the group they presented with:
The social issue the group chose
The action the group is taking against the issue
7. Closure
Why it is important to take the stand
If the group is unsure of the answer to one of these questions, the presenting
group will be prepared to answer the question fully.
Students will be called to the carpet and we will wrap up the lesson by talking
about how what we were learning relates to the world today.
8. Assessment Results of Each group received a 100% on their project. 25 out of 25 students received a full score on
all objectives/skills: their notecards as well.
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations: Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations:
1-1 reading of the book during small group breakouts Small groups formed based on reading level (reading groups)
Larger paper instead of notecard
More choices for presentations or an alternate Students/groups who are struggling to complete the project can
assignment go to the website we used earlier in class to look for ideas