Objectives: Define and use close-reading vocabulary words. RL.4.4

1. Reading Unit: 2 Lesson: 3 Module: A • Objectives: • Define and use close-reading vocabulary words. RL.4.4 • Refer to details and examples when explaining what a text says. • RL.4.1 Today we will be doing a Close Reading of pages 18-23. • Essential Questions: • How does a reader identify themes? • How does a writer develop and organize writing that matches purpose and • audience? • How does a writer use internal and external dialogue to develop the theme • of the story?

2. First Read Let’s explore the text! On previous pages, Nokomis was teaching Hiawatha about nature and the world around him. Focus on the illustrations on pages 18–23 to determine what parts of the world Hiawatha might be learning about in this section.

3. Shared Reading Routine Focus: What is the “gist” of the text? I will begin reading while you follow along silently in your book. Then, you will continue reading up to page 23 on your own. Focus on understanding what the text is mostly about. Be prepared to discuss the following questions when you are done with the reading: • Based on the text, what type of relationship does Hiawatha have with Nokomis? • What details in the text show that Nokomis Is wise? • What questions do you have?

4. Second Read When you reread Hiawatha, focus on key details of how Nokomis describes elements of nature to Hiawatha. Be prepared to discuss the following questions when you are done with the reading: 1. What do you know about Hiawatha based on the questions he asks Nokomis? 2. How does Nokomis answer Hiawatha’s questions? Are her stories true? 3. Based on the answers Nokomis gives to Hiawatha, how do Native Americans understand nature? 4. In the lines, “Saw the moon rise from the water / Rippling, rounding from the water”, what does rippling mean? 5. Nokomis tells Hiawatha that a warrior seized his grandmother and threw her against the moon. What does seized mean? Do you think the grandmother was expecting the warrior to seize her?

5. Focused Reading • Text-Based Vocabulary • perish, p. 19 • blossom, p. 19 • scolding, p. 22 • Vocabulary Routine: • 1. Read the sentence containing the word. • 2. Identify context clues about its meaning within the passage. • 3. Look up the word in a dictionary and read the definition. • 4. Use the word in other ways. • *After we review these words, write your sentences on p. 84 in your Reader’s and Writer’s Journal.*

6. Focused Reading Text-Based Conversation I see on p. 18 that Hiawatha asks Nokomis to explain the “flecks and shadows” on the moon. Nokomis tells him that a warrior seized his grandmother and threw her against the moon. The grandmother’s body creates the flecks and shadows. I know that this is just a story Nokomis uses to describe the moon. This couldn’t happen in real life. Nokomis uses a legend or myth that has been told for many years to help Hiawatha understand nature. Discuss the stories that Nokomis shares with Hiawatha.

7. Focused Reading Team Talk Routine Do the think the stories Nokomis shares help answer Hiawatha’s questions about nature? Use details from the text to support why or why not.

8. Language Analysis Craft and Structure Reread sections of the text to better understand the author’s particular choices and how these choices shape meaning. Focus on how the author includes examples of oral storytelling in the poem. These spoken stories are based on the values and beliefs of a culture and may be handed down from one generation to the next.

9. Language Analysis • Cite Text Evidence • Reread p. 18, focus on the lines about the warrior that Nokomis tells to Hiawatha: “Once a warrior, very angry / Seized his grandmother ...” • Who is the character in the story Nokomis tells? • Why might the author use a warrior in a Native American story? • How do you think Nokomis learned of this story?

10. Independent Reading Language Analysis Work independently to analyze the oral storytelling on p. 19. Writing in Response to Reading Turn to page 85 in your Reader’s and Writer’s Journal and read the prompt: Which story describes nature better: the warrior story on p. 18 or the rainbow in the heaven story on p. 19? Why?

11. Small Groups It’s time to get into our groups! Please see me if you don’t know what group you belong in.

12. Writing Narrative Writing • Objectives: • Use dialogue in narrative writing. • Understand the function of quotation marks.

13. Writing Narrative Writing A narrative is a story, or an account of events. Narratives can be told by a character in a story or by an outside narrator. Narratives usually establish a situation and introduce characters right away using descriptive details. Each event is presented in a clear sequence that unfolds naturally. Writers often use transitional words, such as first, next, then, or last, to connect each event. A narrative ends with a conclusion that explains how the story ends.

14. Writing • Narrative Writing • Narratives may include dialogue among characters. Dialogue is one way for writers to develop and describe events. Dialogue can also reveal more about what characters are thinking and feeling. • What event or experience is being narrated? • Who is narrating? Who are the characters? • Does the writer use dialogue to convey events? • How do transitional words connect events or experiences?

15. Writing Analyze the Text The writer uses dialogue to convey experiences and ideas.

16. Writing Conventions Focus: Quotation Marks Use quote marks when punctuating dialogue. Put punctuation marks such as commas, question marks, and exclamation points inside the quote marks. He said, “What is that?” Notice the use of quotation marks around the dialogue. Also notice the location of the question mark.

17. Writing Independent Writing • Write a brief narrative poem or scene. The poem or scene should feature two characters who discuss a problem or an idea. • Be sure to: • 1. Begin by identifying the problem or event you are writing about. • 2. Think of a problem that would require discussion, • or dialogue. • 3. select a narrator, come up with characters, introduce the • characters, and include the use of dialogue. • Reread your poems or scenes to be sure dialogue is properly punctuated.