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Researching: Eyewitness Accounts, Part 2 Lesson PlanResearching: Eyewitness Accounts, Part 2 Lesson Plan
Publisher
EngageNY
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Grade
6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
1 hr
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Year
2014
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Researching: Eyewitness Accounts, Part 2

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  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 3A (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 3A Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 6 ELA Module 3A, Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Grade 6 ELA Module 3A: Unit 3, Lesson 3 (.html)
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Continue on. Learners continue with the work they began in the last lesson looking for quotes to complete an eye witness interview. Pupils work in their groups to examine the texts in their research folders and The Great Earthquake and Fires of 1906: A Dramatic Remembrance. The class then works to make sense of the interviews with a connecting text anchor chart.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

newspapers, interviewing, writing structure

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide highlighters for marking parts of text to use in the interview

Classroom Considerations

  • Installment three in the 12-part in Grade 6 ELA Module 3A, Unit 3
  • Complete lessons in order

Pros

  • Includes a completed connecting text anchor chart for teacher reference
  • Offers ideas to help struggling and English learners

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.6.2 W.6.7

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