Reading Questionnaire

Lesson Plan Submitted for publication at http://faculty.rcoe.appstate.edu/smithtw/ . Submitted: Spring 2006 during RE 3150.

Lesson Type: Reading Strategies Lesson

Title of Lesson: Bronx Masquerade Introduction

Description of Lesson: This lesson is designed to help Language Arts Students n the Seventh grade break large reading assignments into manageable portions.

Author: Dorothy Alice Roberts

I. Concept Under Investigation

�� *Designed as a Reading Strategies lesson for a 7^th grade Language Arts Class

�� *This lesson is designed to be used early in the school year or for classes who �� may be lacking in appropriate reading techniques or strategies.

�� *Students will investigate how they read, how to pace/breakup assigned reading, � practice guided reading to enhance comprehension.

�� *After this lesson students should be better able to break large reading �� assignments into manageable parts.

II. Day 2 of a 7 day Multi-text study designed to focus on overcoming challenges and explore cultural diversity. For use in a 7^th grade classroom.

III. Seventh grade competencies and skills addressed from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study:

Today�s lesson will cover;

1.01 ��Establish importance of events

1.03� ��Interact in group settings by:

�� responding appropriately to comments and questions

offering personal opinions confidently without dominating

giving appropriate reasons that support opinions

soliciting and respecting another person�s opinion

�� 5.01�� using effective reading strategies to match type of text.

�� taking an active role in whole class seminars.

5.02 reading a variety of literature and other text (e.g., mysteries, novels, science fiction, historical documents, newspapers, skits, lyric poems).

The activities initiated in today�s lesson will cover;

1.02�� Make connections between works, self and related topics

�� Drawing inferences and/or conclusions

1.04�� determining how personal circumstances and background shape �� interactions with text

4.01�� Analyze the purpose of the author or creator by:

�� *monitoring comprehension for understanding of what is read, heard �� and/or �� viewed.

�� *examining any bias, apparent or hidden messages, emotional factors, �� and/or propaganda techniques.

�� *exploring and evaluating the underlying assumptions of the �� author/creator.

�� *understanding the effects of author's craft on the reader/viewer/listener.

�� 4.02 �� drawing conclusions based on evidence, reasons, or relevant information.

IV. Materials needed

�� Set of 35 books Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

�� Overhead projector

�� Reading Questionnaire (handout)

�� Pacing Guide� (handout)

�� Prediction Guide (handout)��

�� Langston Hughes poetry selection (overhead)

�� Selection of Lyric/Rap (overhead)

�� Whiteboard

�� Expo markers in 3 colors

�� Warm-up overhead

�� Books on tape copies for SEP learners

V. Procedures with Script (see next section for time line of lesson plan)

�� Initiating activity: warm-up activity �list the last five things you read�

�� Review: reading questionnaire

�� discuss answers and brainstorm what might make reading more successful.

�� This should be done on white board with answers for each question

�� added to list. When list is complete mark which words represent good �� reading habits by majority opinion. (There really are not many WRONG �� answers here, as each person may have their own unique ideal reading �� setting/environment.

�� Purpose setting: Read Langston Hughes poetry selections and lyrics one at a time, �� pointing out language used. The book that we will begin today will feature �� slang and �street� language in the text and in the poetry written by the �� students.

�� Introduction for today�s lesson: Introduce book and distribute copies to class

�� Guided practice: Distribute Pacing Guide and Guided Reading Prediction Chart

�� Call students attention to which characters are covered in each nights �� reading, this will help them break up the prediction chart into manageable �� amounts of work.

�� Independent Practice: In-class reading time. Teacher should rotate and assist �� students with Prediction Chart.

�� Closure: Remind students which parts of prediction guide should be completed �� for the next class.

�� Collect Reading questionnaire as ticket out the door.

VI. SPED Modification

�� Have book on tape available and encourage student(s) to follow along in book as they listen to tape

VII. Assessment

a. Formative: Ticket out the door (reading questionnaire).

b. Summative: Prediction Guide (Will introduce later in Multi-text unit choice of argumentative essay or participation in debate over benefits of Open-Mic days in a classroom.)

No NETS-T indicators addressed in this lesson.

Next Lesson will include introduction of Unit Project and informative text�s.

�Procedures with Script Suggested Time Line

�� a. warm-up activity �� 5minutes

�� b. reading questionnaire �� 10-15 minutes

�� discuss answers and brainstorm what might make reading more successful.

�� This should be done on white board with answers for each question

�� Read Langston Hughes poetry selections�� 10 minutes

�� c. Read and discuss Lyric selection�� 5 minutes

�� d. Introduce book and

�� distribute copies to class�� 5 minutes

�� e. Distribute Pacing Guide �� 2 minutes

��  �Guided Reading Prediction Chart�� 5-10 minutes

�� Call students attention to which characters are covered in each nights �� reading, this will help them break up the prediction chart into manageable �� amounts of work.

�� f. In-class reading time.�� 15 minutes

�� g. Remind students which parts of prediction guide should be completed for the �� next class.

�� Collect Reading questionnaire as ticket out the door.

�� 5 minutes

�� Total:�� 53-68 minutes

Materials

Warm up activity

List the last five things you read

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�� 5.

Reading Questionnaire�� Name___________________

Ticket out the Door

What type of material do you read the most of?

�� notes�� books for school�� books for pleasure�� newsprint�� other_______

Why do you read?

�� have to �� like to�� other_______

At what time of the day do you do the most of you reading?_______________________

Where do you do most of your reading?_______________________________________

What position are you in when you read? (at table, on couch, in bed�)

___________________________________________________________________

What are major distractions when you read?__________________________________

_____________________________ seems to bother others when they read, but it does

not bother me at all.

(This should be an overhead)

Night Funeral in Harlem

� ��

� �� Night funeral

In Harlem:

Where did they get

Them two fine cars?

Insurance man, he did not pay--

His insurance lapsed the other day--

Yet they got a satin box

for his head to lay.

Night funeral

In Harlem:

Who was it sent

That wreath of flowers?

Them flowers came

from that poor boy's friends--

They'll want flowers, too,

When they meet their ends.

Night funeral

in Harlem:

Who preached that

Black boy to his grave?

Old preacher man

Preached that boy away--

Charged Five Dollars

His girl friend had to pay.

Night funeral

In Harlem:

When it was all over

And the lid shut on his head

and the organ had done played

and the last prayers been said

and six pallbearers

Carried him out for dead

And off down Lenox Avenue

That long black hearse done sped,

The street light

At his corner

Shined just like a tear--

That boy that they was mournin'

Was so dear, so dear

To them folks that brought the flowers,

To that girl who paid the preacher man--

It was all their tears that made

That poor boy's

Funeral grand.

Night funeral

In Harlem.

Langston Hughes

(This should be an overhead)

Lyrics from Petey Pablo �Goodies�

Tell valet to bring my 'Lac

And I ain't comin back

So you can put a car right there.

I'm the truth

And ain't got nothin' to prove.

An you can ask anybody

Cuz they seen me do it.

Barracades, I run right through 'em

I'm used to 'em.

Throw all the dirt you want it's no use.
Pacing Guide for reading and

related Prediction Guide characters

I have broken the reading into five sections that can be read over the next seven days. This will allow for some flexibility for those students who have prior plans or �heavy� homework nights. Listed next to the pages that should be read each day are the characters you�ll meet within those pages. For each character, you should complete the corresponding Prediction Guide sections for that character. While reading the daily assignment, give a brief description of each character you meet, their conflicts, a line from their poem, and your prediction of what may happen to this character in the future. We will discuss these predictions in class, so be sure to complete them as you read. You should complete the book over the next seven days. You are not required to follow the reading guide exactly, but I would advise you to read at the very least what is assigned each day.

Pages �� Characters

3-33 Wesley �Bad Boy�Boone

�� Tyrone Bittings

�� Chankara Troupe

�� Raul Ramirez

�� Diondra Jordan

�� Devon Hope

34-69 Lupe Algarin

�� Gloria Martinez

�� Janelle Battle

�� Leslie Lucas

�� Judianne Alexander

70-113 Tanisha Scott

�� Sterling Hughes

�� Amy Moscowitz

�� Natalina/Sheila Gameroni

114-145 Steve Ericson

�� Raynard Patterson

146-167�� Porscha Johnson��

Prediction Guide:

Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

Fill out the following chart as you read Bronx Masquerade. Choose a line from each

poem that best represents them, and predict how each student will change by the end of

the book.

Day One�� Description �� Conflicts �� Line from Poem �� Prediction

________________________________________________________________________

Wesley Boone

Tyrone Bittings

�

Chankara Troupe

Raul Ramirez

Diondra Jordan

Devon Hope

Day Two�� Description �� Conflicts �� Line from Poem �� Prediction

________________________________________________________________________

Lupe Algarin

Gloria Martinez

Janelle Battle

Leslie Lucas

Judianne Alexander

Day Three�� Description �� Conflicts �� Line from Poem �� Prediction

________________________________________________________________________

Tanisha Scott

Sterling S. Hughes

Amy Moscowitz

Natalina/Sheila Gamberoni

Day Four�� Description �� Conflicts �� Line from Poem �� Prediction

________________________________________________________________________

Steve Ericson

Raynard Patterson

Day Five�� Description �� Conflicts �� Line from Poem �� Prediction

________________________________________________________________________

Porscha Johnson

Works Cited

Hughes, Langston� �Night Funeral in Harlem,� from The Collected Poems of Langston �� Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright � 1994 the Estate of �� Langston Hughes.

Petey, Pablo lyrics from �Goodies.�� Website at SING365.COM April 20, 2006.

�http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Goodies-lyrics-Petey-Pablo/7858AF6601D4EDF048256EB4001345CA