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Building Background Knowledge: The Dinka Tribe (“Loss of Culturally Vital Cattle Leaves Dinka Tribe Adrift in Refugee Camps” Excerpt 1) Lesson PlanBuilding Background Knowledge: The Dinka Tribe (“Loss of Culturally Vital Cattle Leaves Dinka Tribe Adrift in Refugee Camps” Excerpt 1) Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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7th
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Year
2014
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Building Background Knowledge: The Dinka Tribe (“Loss of Culturally Vital Cattle Leaves Dinka Tribe Adrift in Refugee Camps” Excerpt 1)

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Text annotations help readers track essential ideas. Pupils continue reading and annotating an informational article about Sudanese tribes, connecting it with A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. They also begin writing about their understanding of the experiences of the Dinka and Nuer tribes of South Sudan.

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Concepts

textual analysis, textual evidence, novels, informational texts, text-to-text connections, sudan, tribes, context clues, literary analysis, annotation, close reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide sentence frames to support English language learners with writing

Classroom Considerations

  • Serves as the 13th of 14 consecutive lessons from the Grade 7 ELA Module 1, Unit 1 series
  • Requires a document camera and access to the anchor chart from lesson two

Pros

  • Provides extensive teaching notes 
  • Offers several strategies for differentiated instruction

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.7.9.a L.7.4.a

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