Language Arts: Week of October 13 - 24, Lesson 4, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Idea of Persuasion

Subject: Language Arts
Persuasion – Lesson 4, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Idea of Persuasion

What we will learn (objectives):
Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature
Develop an understanding of persuasion

What we will read or study (content):
Selection from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

How we will study it (process):
Monday, Oct 13
Review classroom norms, rules and expectations

Tuesday, Oct 14
Students will read selection from Tom Sawyer and then complete a literature web. Discuss webs as a class.

Wednesday, Oct 15
Each team will then choose one question from the Literary Response and Interpretation questions, Reasoning Questions and Change Questions (see flash cards, Lesson 4). The team will present their answers.

Thursday, Oct 16
Discuss Persuasion as a class. Each team will brainstorm ideas about persuasion and discuss with the class. One student will read the definition. Compare to list.


Friday, Oct 17 - Wed, Oct 22
Students will list chores they are responsible for at home. Each student will choose one and write a one-minute speech to persuade another classmate to do the chore, following the guidelines. Use note cards to prep.
Students will give speech using note cards. After students are done, have students vote as to whether they would do the chore, why or why not.
Gifted Ed teacher: will be administering GATE assessments Tuesday, Oct 21 - Thursday, Oct 23

Thursday, Oct 23
Students will then work in teams to complete a vocab web using words from the Tom Sawyer selection.

Friday, Oct 24
CBM:
Give the following sentence from the chapter:
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.
Students will id the part of speech of the underlined word and tell its function in the sentence.

In Response Journal, have students answer one of the questions (see mini-poster)


Play the game Persuade. In this game, each group of 6 students receives a set of “audience,” “audience background” and “persuasion goal” cards. To begin, a set of cards is drawn and the audience role plays according to the “audience” and “audience background” directions. The persuader then delivers a 4-minute speech to persuade the audience. Following the speech, the audience has 3 minutes to ask questions. At the conclusion of each round, participants rate the speaker using scoring sheets.



How we will know we learned something (product):
Lit web
Vocab web
Speech
Discussion question presentation/worksheet

Homework:
Continue with independent reading and writing assignment from Lesson 1. The discussion of the Asain-American books will take place in Lesson 7.

Extension:
Read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Make a chart showing how the characters change over the course of the novel.


Mini-Poster:
Have you ever outwitted someone? Describe the occasion and how you managed to fool another person.

What are some tasks you enjoy doing that others might think of as work? What are some things you think of as work which might seem like play to someone else?