Lesson 7 - The Story of Cholera

🕐 Lesson Overview

Bellringer
Read: Chapter 7
Video: The Story of Cholera
Read: Chapter 8

⭐ Objectives

I can make text-to-self connections.
I can use conjunctions to extend and elaborate on ideas.
I can expand my background knowledge.

📏 Standards

🗽 NYSNGSS

7R3 - RL:
In literary texts, analyze how elements of plot are related, affect one another, and contribute to meaning.
7SL2:
Analyze the central ideas and supporting details presented in diverse formats (e.g., including visual, quantitative, and oral) and explain how the ideas clarify and/or contribute to a topic, text, or issue under study.

💖 SEL

2A.3a:
Practice perspective-taking to infer understanding of others’ thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
2C.3a:
Practice empathy in order to establish and maintain positive relationships with individuals and groups across lines of difference.
2D.3a:
Describe potential causes and consequences of conflicts; recognizing that power and privilege impact relationships.

🗒️ Lesson Plan

Anticipatory Set

As a bellringer, students will respond to the following prompt in their journals.

Run through an average day in your life. In your journal, make a list of everything you do that uses water. Then, put a star (⭐) next to the items you feel use the most water.

The teacher will take attendance as students write. After sufficient time has passed, the teacher will direct students to Turn & Talk with a friend about what they can reasonably do to reduce the amount of water that they use in a day. The teacher will invite students to share ideas. Then, students will complete the following Because, But, So activity in their journals.

People in South Sudan do not have easy access to clean water because...
It is easier for me to access clean water, but...
I waste a lot of water when I... , so...

The teacher will again invite students to share what they wrote. The class will then review the agenda and objectives.

Developmental Activity

The class will then read aloud Chapter 7 & 8. The teacher will use the Equity Sticks strategy to select readers on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis. The teacher will pause the reading to check for understanding, introduce new vocabulary, or explain unfamiliar concepts.

Between the two chapters, the teacher will show a video about cholera, which resembles Akeer's affliction in the text.

⚙️ Modifications

If in a co-taught class, a co-teacher may pull a small group of students and read with them in a smaller group setting where more individualized reading interventions may be used.