UNIT 2- MIGRATION STORIESLesson 4: Compare and Contrast

INDEPENDENT READING

Get an SSR book and read for 15 minutes.

Turn to page 10 and write causes and effects that you find in your SSR book in the next available “My Responses” section Don’t forget to write the date, title, etc.

Record your reading on page 33 of your workbook

WORD STUDY

Infect Infectious, infection

(verb) to affect with a disease causing organism

WORD STUDY

Motive Motivation

(noun) a reason for doing something

READ-ALOUD/THINK-ALOUD

Recap: What might have caused Frances Mary to be so

concerned about Mara’s illness? What might be the cause of Mike’s suspicious

behavior? What were some causes and effects from

yesterday’s reading? Strategy: Inferring

Why do characters do what they do? RA/TA: Pages 22-31 of A Family Apart Stopping Points:

Page 28, paragraph 2 What caused Ma to do what she did?

Page 30, paragraph 4 How trustworthy/dependable is Mike?

CLASSROOM CONVERSATION

Whose motives are you wondering about? Charles Loring Brace Mike Ma

Motives Chart

QUESTIONS ABOUT: A FAMILY APART

Motives:

WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

COMPARE AND CONTRAST Views of the Frontier chart on page 87

TEXT

Frances Mary Both Mike

TEXT TEXT

ORPHANS THEN AND NOW

Get a highlighter or a colored pencil

Turn to page 181 and read “Orphans Then and Now”

Turn to page 64 in your workbooks to find the “Orphans Then and Now” chart

COMPARE AND CONTRAST Orphans Then and Now

Orphans

Then Both Now

Hundreds of thousands of children

(all of) the US

30,000 children

NYC

INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP WORK

Turn to page 65 of your workbook to the “Compare and Contrast” chart

Complete the chart in small groups

Use details about the Kelly’s life in NYC and your life in Syracuse

After the chart is completed, write a one sentence statement of contrast Use key words such as however or although

CLOSURE

Review for the vocabulary quiz that will be given tomorrow!