Book Club

1. Book Club Cindy Malone – Reading Teacher North Salisbury School

2. Content Standards Standard 2.0 Comprehension of Informational Text Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts Before Reading 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words 1.E.3.e Make, confirm or adjust predictions 1.E.2.a Survey and preview the text by examining features, such as the title, illustrations, photographs, charts and graphs 1.E.2.d Make connections to the text from prior knowledge and experiences During Reading 1.E.3.f Periodically summarize while reading 2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning •Connections between text features and the main idea and/or the reader’s understanding 2.A.2.a Use print features 2.A.2.c use informational aids captions 2.A.2.b Use graphic aids – photographs 2.A.1.a Read, use, and identify the characteristics of nonfiction materials to gain information and content knowledge After Reading 2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning 2.A.2.c use informational aids (captions) 2.A.4.c State and support main ideas and messages •Whole text or portion of text 1.E.4.b Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text • Main ideas, supporting details, and other information stated in the text 1.E.4.g Summarize – The text or a portion of the text

3. Before Reading • Prereading Activities • Building Background • Vocabulary Development • Set Purposes for Reading

4. “I had reasoned this out in my mind. There was one of two things I had a right to-- liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other.” Harriet Tubman How do you know from this quote that Harriet was a woman of courage?

5. Preview Read the title Read all the headings and sub-headings. Look at the pictures. Read the captions Stop and think about what you already know about the topic. What do I know already about Harriet Tubman?

6. Why Was There Slavery?

7. Vocabulary 1. With courage and determination, Tubman bravely won her own freedom. After dressing I made the fires, milked cows and worked in the pasture. 2. Slave traders captured Harriet’s grandparents. 3. Harriet’s real name was Araminta. 4. 5. Slaves worked long hours on a plantation. Harriet was independent and rebelliousin nature. 6. The overseer picked up a heavy weight and threw it at him. 7. 1.D.3.a Use context to determine the meanings of words

8. What do you know About …. The Civil War Abolishonist Southern States Northern States Freedom Abraham Lincoln Civil War 1.E.2.d Make connections to the text from prior knowledge and experiences

9. A Woman of Courage 1.E.3.e Make, confirm or adjust predictions After Before

10. During Reading • Monitor and Clarify what we have read • Reread difficult parts • Carefully read and study graphic aids • Think about the new information you have • learned about the topic

11. After Reading • What new information did you learn about Harriet Tubman? 1.E.4.b Identify and explain what is directly stated in the text • Main ideas, supporting details, and other information stated in the text

12. After The Revolutionary War

13. 2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning Many times the captions that go with the photos offer additional information about the topic, besides what is in the text. Reader’s Handbook page 432

14. 2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning • Connections between text features and the main idea and/or the reader’s understanding

15. Choose a text feature from Chapter 1 and explain how it supported the main idea of the chapter. Use details from the text to support your answer. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.A.2.F Identify and explain the contributions of text features to meaning * Connections between text features and the main idea and/or the reader’s understanding

16. Topic Sentence and Supporting Details The topic sentence is the main idea or thought of a paragraph. It often comes at the beginning of a paragraph. From “Harriet Tubman” by Jim Haskins Topic sentence By 1851, Harriet had become a legend as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, the network of people, black and white, who aided slaves escaping from the South to the North for freedom. She established a pattern that she kept to for six years, until 1857. Each year she made two trips to the South, one in the spring and one in the fall. She spent the winters in St. Catherine’s, Ontario, where many fugitive slaves had settled, and the summers working in hotels in places such as Cape May, New Jersey, to earn money for her trips. In the spring of 1857, she managed to rescue her aged parents. 1 2 3 4 Supporting Details Reader’s Handbook page 208

17. Main Idea Organizer Topic Sentence and Supporting Details Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a legend as a conductor on the Underground Railroad She made regular trips to the South. Harriet spent the rest of the year helping slaves in the North and earning money for trips. Harriet made two trips each year in the spring and the fall. she rescued her own parents in 1857. Author’s Purpose: Provide the reader with Information about how Harriet Tubman helped the slaves. Inference:

18. Write a summary of chapter 1, A Woman of Courage. Use the sentence below to begin your summary. Chapter 1 was about Harriet Tubman’s courage throughout her life while she was a slave and after she was free. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.E.4.g Summarize – The text or a portion of the text

19. The Civil War

20. The Underground Railraod