Comparing Text Structures: To Kill a Mockingbird and “Those Winter Sundays”

(Chapter 6 & 7)

Module 2A: Unit 1: Lesson 15

Opening Engaging the Reader and Reviewing Learning

Targets: Narrative Structure Chapter 6 (8 minutes)

Work Time Close Read of “Those Winter Sundays” (25

minutes) Comparing and Contrasting Text Structures (10

minutes) Closing and Assessment

Debrief Learning Targets and Preview Homework (2 minutes)

Homework Complete a first read of Chapter 8. Take notes

using the Structured Notes graphic organizer

Agenda

To Kill a Mockingbird (book; one per student) Narrative Structure Chapter 6 graphic organizer (one

per student) “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden (one per

student) Close Reading “Those Winter Sundays” Note-catcher

(one per student and one for teacher modeling) Document camera Close Reading “Those Winter Sundays” Note-catcher

(for Teacher Reference) Comparing and Contrasting Text Structures Note-

catcher (one per student and one for modeling) To Kill a Mockingbird Structured Notes Graphic

Organizer, Chapter 8 (one per student) To Kill a Mockingbird Supported Structured Notes

Graphic Organizer, Chapter 8 (optional for students needing more support)

Materials

Commotion (54) Malignant (55)Pilgrimage (57)BurdensomeRendered (61)

Lesson Vocabulary

Take out your Structured Notes and copies of To Kill a Mockingbird

Distribute the Narrative Structure graphic organizer, Chapter 6 and complete it

You need to fill it out only for Chapter 6, not Chapter 7

You will not write the summary paragraph today; instead, you will use their graphic organizer to talk about the structure of the chapter.

Read the learning target aloud: “I can compare and contrast the structure of Chapter 6

of To Kill a Mockingbird and ‘Those Winter Sundays.’” The learning target is focused on a skill that is new

to you, but it will build on what you have already done on narrative structure in previous lessons

Opening: Engaging the Reader and Reviewing Learning Targets: Narrative Structure Chapter 6 (8 minutes)

Meet with your selected Discussion Appointment partner

Distribute “Those Winter Sundays” and the Close Reading “Those Winter Sundays” Note-catcher

Read along silently while the poem is read aloudTurn to your partner and reread the text aloudReread very quietly, because everyone else will be

reading, too When you have done that, read the poem silently and

think hard as you are reading about what the poet seems to be saying“What do you think the gist of this poem might be?”

Share your thoughts with your partner and take notes on your Note-catcher.

Work Time: Close Reading of “Those Winter Sundays” (25 minutes)

Share your answer“The gist is that the narrator didn’t understand

when he was a child that his father loved him.” Revise and correct your own Note-catchers as

wellPoets choose words the way composers of music

choose notes—each and every one mattersLook at the vocabulary chart on your Note-

catchersFind each word and discuss with your partner to

figure out what it might meanShare your inferences and add correct meanings

to the displayed Note-catcherClarify the meanings and write the actual

meaning on the chart

Work Time Continued…

In addition to choosing words carefully, poets choose structure carefully—how they build the text

This poem has been built in stanzasIt has three stanzas, and these are the basic

structure, or building blocks, of the poemDraw the images that the author creates in

each stanzaThe third stanza has been broken into two parts:

the first two lines and the last two lines. Look at Question 4Fill in the chart and think about how the

poet uses the stanzas to develop the narrator and the father

Work Time Continued…

Share your inferences and add to the displayed Note-catcher

Continue to work with your partner on Questions 5 and 6

Share your ideas about Questions 5 and 6Revise your own Note-catchers if necessary“Those Winter Sundays” is saying about the

Golden Rule. Write that in the Class Consensus box on the

displayed Note-catcher. Add to or change it, depending on your ideas

Work Time Continued…

Distribute the Comparing and Contrasting Text Structures Note-catcher

This Note-catcher asks you to think about how each text—“Those Winter Sundays” and Chapter 6 of To Kill a Mockingbird—uses text structure to help communicate something about the Golden Rule

Model how to use this graphic organizer and refer to the Close Reading Note-catcher the class just completed

Fill out your Note-catchers as we model

Work Time: Comparing and Contrasting Text Structures (10 minutes)

Consider following these steps: First, look to the Close Reading Note-catcher for how

“Those Winter Sundays” relates to the Golden RuleFill that in

Look at the next box: We just looked at the text structure of the poem. It has three stanzas with four lines each. The last two lines are the narrator reflecting on his childhood Add that to the Note-catcher

Lastly, look at the third box: The structure helps create the meaning because the first two stanzas show what the narrator’s father did to show his love for his son. The last two lines then show that the narrator did not appreciate all the things his father did for him. His father was following the Golden Rule, but the son didn’t know until later

Work Time Continued…

Look at your Narrative Structure Chapter 6 graphic organize

This organizer describes the structure and the meaning created by the end of the chapter, so you can use it to help you answer the questions

Work with your partner to use your Narrative Structure Chapter 6 graphic organizer to help you fill in the column on To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 6

Work Time Continued…

Reread the learning target: I can compare and contrast the

structure of Chapter 6 of To Kill a Mockingbird and “Those Winter Sundays.”

Use Fist to Five to rate how confident you are that you have mastered that learning target

Distribute the Homework: To Kill a Mockingbird Structured Notes, Chapter 8

To Kill a Mockingbird Supported Structured Notes, Chapter 8

Closing and Assessment: Debrief Learning Targets and Preview Homework (2 minutes)

Complete a first read of Chapter 8, using structured notes

Answer the focus question: What is an example of the Golden Rule in this chapter?

Use the strongest evidence from the novel in your answer.

Homework