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Building Background Knowledge: Introducing Pygmalion Lesson PlanBuilding Background Knowledge: Introducing Pygmalion Lesson Plan
Publisher
EngageNY
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7th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
2 hrs
Instructional Strategy
Direct Instruction
Year
2014
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Building Background Knowledge: Introducing Pygmalion

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This Building Background Knowledge: Introducing Pygmalion lesson plan also includes:
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 2b (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 2b Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 2b, Unit 2 (.pdf)
  • Grade 7 ELA Module 2b: Performance Tasks
  • Grade 7 ELA Module 2b: Unit 2, Lesson 1 (.html)
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Learners take a gallery walk around the room to view images and text of Victorian England culture and then complete a Predictions Walk note-catcher as they circulate and take turns reading quotation strips from Pygmalion. Class members use the quotes to predict what the text may be about, and then listen to the teacher read aloud an excerpt from Pygmalion.

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Concepts

dramatic plays, setting, making inferences

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Review the components of a play and how it is approached differently than a novel

Classroom Considerations

  • First lesson in the unit Grade 7 ELA Module 2b, Unit 2
  • Requires completing lessons in order
  • Lists tasks for teachers to do in advance of the lesson

Pros

  • Offers tips for meeting the needs of struggling readers
  • Provides an exit ticket to better assess learning

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.7.1

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