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The Jacket: Journal Templates Teacher's Guide

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Explore this story involving prejudice and racism to enhance learners' comprehension skills. The story The Jacket by Andrew Clements involves an African American boy who is falsely accused of stealing someone's jacket. This teacher's guide supports use of the journal templates (for literature circles or for individual work) that you can find when you search Lesson Planet resources for "The Jacket: Journal Templates."

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fact and opinion, opinions, literature, making predictions, point of view, racism, sequence of events, sequencing

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fact and opinion, making predictions, racism, sequencing, literature, point of view, story sequence, english language arts
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Grade
3rd - 6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
5 days
Instructional Strategy
Modeling

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