Lesson 4
Fly Away Home
Objective:
- SWBAT explain or describe, in writing, their thoughts or opinions about what someone else has said.
- NCSS: Learners will understand how people and communities deal with scarcity of resources.
- VA English SOL: 2.11 The student will write stories, letters, and simple explanations.
- VA English SOL: 2.12 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
a) Recognize and use complete sentences.
b) Use and punctuate declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences.
c) Capitalize all proper nouns and the word I.
Materials:
- The book, Fly Away Home, by Eve Bunting.
- LCD projector, computer, and internet connection
- Whiteboard and marker
- Social Studies journals
- LCD projector, computer, and internet connection
- Whiteboard and marker
- Social Studies journals
Procedure:
1. Read to the class, Fly Away Home.
2. Have a class discussion about the book. What was a want and need in the story? Was there more than one kind of want or need? What were they? In the story, how did the boy and his dad deal with living at the airport? What were some of the things that they did?
3. Play the last half of the Reading Rainbow clip about the book, Fly Away Home: Video Clip. Start at the 10:07 minute mark where a previous homeless family is interviewed and shares their experience.
4. Write on the board quotes from the sister and brother from the video.
"Sister: Even though that there was a time when I was homeless myself, I didn't think of myself of those people on the street, but I thought of myself as a person without a home, that needs to get one quickly.
Brother: There's nothing wrong with a person that's homeless. They're the same person as they were when they had a home, but more scared."
5. After students have read the quotes, have students write in their social studies journal. Ask the students, after watching the video and listening to the story, if their thoughts about people who are homeless have changed and if so, how. Or they can write an entry about their thoughts about the quotes of the sister and brother in the video.
2. Have a class discussion about the book. What was a want and need in the story? Was there more than one kind of want or need? What were they? In the story, how did the boy and his dad deal with living at the airport? What were some of the things that they did?
3. Play the last half of the Reading Rainbow clip about the book, Fly Away Home: Video Clip. Start at the 10:07 minute mark where a previous homeless family is interviewed and shares their experience.
4. Write on the board quotes from the sister and brother from the video.
"Sister: Even though that there was a time when I was homeless myself, I didn't think of myself of those people on the street, but I thought of myself as a person without a home, that needs to get one quickly.
Brother: There's nothing wrong with a person that's homeless. They're the same person as they were when they had a home, but more scared."
5. After students have read the quotes, have students write in their social studies journal. Ask the students, after watching the video and listening to the story, if their thoughts about people who are homeless have changed and if so, how. Or they can write an entry about their thoughts about the quotes of the sister and brother in the video.
Differentiation:
- During instruction, use voice changes to stress points
- Repeat important information often
- Teach key vocabulary before the lesson
- Provide a graphic organizer (concept map, outline, etc.) to help students organize their ideas before writing.
- For advanced readers and writers, have students read the book, A Shelter in Our Car by Monica Gunning. In their journals, have students write any comparisons or similarities between the two stories.
Assessment:
- Journal entry: Students will be assessed on clarity of their thoughts and reasons, correct grammar and punctuation, and improvement from their previous writing.