Demonstration Lesson

1. Demonstration Lesson Animal Farm Chapter V

2. Warm-Up • Read Animal Farm, p. 61, paragraph 2-3 • Complete a RAFT • Possible Roles: The farmer, Mollie, Clover • Possible Audience(s): Farmer, Mollie, Clover, the other barnyarn animals • Format: Letter, Poem, Monologue, etc., • Topic: Main Idea of the two paragraphs

3. Example • My RAFT • Role : Farmer • Audience : Barnyard Animals • Format : Monologue • Topic : Main Idea of the paragraph

4. Friendship is a rarity in this day and age. Man against animal…Animal against man. What have you. We are only given one life to live. Our greatest assets are our ability to create valued friendships with those around us…Man or Animal. My dear friends…Animals of the barnyard. Today, I have outstretched my arms to you in hopes that we can mend the rip that has come between us. Mollie, one of your treasured few, has extended her hand of friendship to me by allowing me to rub her nose. A hand for a hand…A nose for a nose. Is it not much to ask that we reach out to each other as friends in this world full of enemies.

5. You try it…

6. Moment of Sharing

7. Direct Instruction • Let’s look at the paragraphs together….

8. “Mollie,” she said, “I have something very serious to say to you. This morning I saw you looking over the hedges that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood. One of Mr. Pilkington’s men was standing on the other side of the hedge. And – I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this – he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. What does that mean, Mollie? “He didn’t! I wasn’t! It isn’t true! Cried Mollie, beginning to prance about and paw the ground.

9. Drawing Conclusions… • Drawing Conclusions requires you to use the information that was given to you from the text and your prior knowledge to place determine what is happening in a selection. • There are 3 methods of drawing conclusions: • Inductive Reasoning • Deductive Reasoning • Abductive Reasoning

10. Inductive Reasoning • begins with specific observations that are and proceeds to a generalized conclusion that is likely, but not certain Hints start on the outside and work their way to a conclusion..

11. Inductive Reasoning • begins with specific observations that are and proceeds to a generalized conclusion that is likely, but not certain What hints do we have? What conclusions can we make from what we see?...

12. Deductive Reasoning • The exact opposite of inductive reasoning. We start with what we presume is “the truth” and make our observations fit what we think…

13. Abductive Reasoning • begins with an incomplete set of observations and proceeds to the likeliest possible explanation Truth The truth is out there somewhere, but you really don’t know what it is because you don’t know exactly wha you saw…

14. Drawing Conclusions… Whether method you decide to use to draw your conclusions…you have to remember the criterion… • What hints are given to you from the text?, and • What you already know from previous reading or your background knowledge? To use the criterion consider using an organizer similar to this…

15. Drawing Conclusions

16. Guided Practice…Group 1 • Continue skim… Animal Farm (p. 62-65) • Jot down all vocabulary that you are unfamiliar with (if you can’t find any…I WILL) • Select and Complete any vocabulary organizers for unfamiliar vocabulary. Your organizer MUST have: • Denotation • Connotation • Definition • Sentence and Location from Text • Personal explanation, and • Some type of Visual Representation • Write down: • any questions that you have regarding what you have read? • IDEAS that pop into mind during your reading. • Draw out any visual images that pop into your head. • Summarize what you have read • Predict what you think will happen next…

17. Guided Practice…Group 2 • Continue reading Animal Farm (p. 62-65) • Determine your individual method for drawingconclusions (inductive, deductive, abductive). • Complete a graphic organizer that reflects the method you have chose (Inductive, Deductive, or Abductive) • Explain why you chose the method you chose….using evidence from the text. • Complete a drawing conclusions graphic organizer. You can use the one attached or create your own. You must include: • Quotes from the text • What you already know about the subject from your reading? Or your experience with the topic? • The conclusions that you have drawn.

18. Guided Practice…Group 3 • Continue working on your RAFT from this morning. • Once you are complete. • Type up your RAFT (print a copy if possible) • Pair up with someone else in your group…proofread and edit your RAFT • Go back and make revisions... • Pull up Study Island or Castle Learning • Work on the “Drawing Conclusions” lesson plan and practice activities. • Create four (4) questions based on the selection or the lesson on “Drawing Conclusions”. Your questions should be based on the Question/Answer/Relationships (see attached) • Make sure to provide 4 answer choices and identify the correct answers. • Put your question and answer choices on one side of an index card and the ACTUAL answer on the other side of the index card with your first and last name.

19. Guided Practice…Group 4 • Complete the Bag of Words Activity below… • In the bag, you are to pick one sentence. • Once you pick your sentence, complete the following: • Determine the type of clause being used • Change your sentence into an example of each type of clause (Make sure to use your prior knowledge of what is happening in the text to make your sentence make sense.) • Review the selection provided to you. Locate and correct the errors found in the selection. Explain why. • IC IC, fb, IC • IC DC DC, IC • IC PP • IC PP (Prepositional Phrase), IC

20. Guided Practice…Group 4 1“Mollie,” she said. 2“I got something very serious to say to you. 3This morning I seen you. 4look over the hedges that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood. 5One of Mr. Pilkington’s men sit on the other side of the hedge. 6And – I was a long way away. 7but I be almost certain I seent this. 8he is talking to you and you was allowing him to stroke your nose. 9What that mean, Mollie? 10“He didn’t! 11I wasn’t! 12It isn’t true! 13Cried Mollie, beginning to prance about and paw the ground. Instructions Locate the errors in the text. Write down the sentence number. Write down what you would change from what…to what… OR what you would add or take away to make the sentences correct. Correct the errors. Identify the different types of clauses

21. REMEMBER…. FANBOYS are: • For • And • Nor • But • Or • Yet • So

22. AND… Prepositional Phrases • A prepositional phrasecontains a preposition, a noun or pronounobjectof the preposition, and any modifiers of the object. • A preposition sits in front ofits object

23. Independent Practice • If you are in Group(s) 1 & 2; complete the task assigned to Group(s) 3 & 4. • If you are in Group (s) 3 & 4; complete the tasks assigned to Group (s) 1 & 2.

24. Closure • Review Independent Practice Requirements… Four Corners… • I’m going to ask you a couple of questions [from Group 3] and give you selections regarding how to draw conclusions. If you agree with selection : a. Go to the front left corner of the room. b. Go to the front right corner of the room c. Go to the rear left corner of the room d. Go to the rear right corner of the room. BUT be prepared to support your answer choices.

25. Day 2…. Review lesson for Drawing Conclusion… • If you are in Group(s) 1 & 2; complete the task assigned to Group(s) 3 & 4. • If you are in Group (s) 3 & 4; complete the tasks assigned to Group (s) 1 & 2. Break students up into same groups… Review Products… Look for additional English I concepts in pages 62-65 to review…continue in rotation with new assignments/products/processes (i.e., Teacher may want to edit RAFT and start student on new writing assignment)