Aubrey Eder

September 11, 2014

Setting:
Lesson:
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Seventh grade English 7 class

Day 2: Read American Born Chinese in-class and introduce character
cards.

Objectives:
- Students will be able to read an alternative text in a meaningful and
successful way.
- Students will be able to identify the different points of view of the
characters that Yang develops in the text.
Standards:
- Standard 2.1.a. iii. Use Key Ideas and Details to analyze how particular
elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters
or plot). (CCSS: RL.7.3)
- Standard 2.1.b.iii. Use Craft and Structure to analyze how an author develops
and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
(CCSS: RL.7.6)
Anticipatory Set:
- Review what we did in last class, and have students summarize what we have
read so far. I will ask what characters we have been exposed to so far.
Lesson Breakdown:
- Anticipatory set (7-10 minutes)
- Introduce character cards: I will start off by bringing in a variety of playing
cards that students can see in case they are unfamiliar with them. After we
have examined what information is on these cards I will go over what we
look at when we look at characters in the novel, and as a class (with my
guidance) we will make a list of items we would want to track about
characters in our texts in our own playing cards. We will keep this list on
butcher paper in the class so students may refer to it for later cards or units.
These cards are to go in their journals taped in so they can have access to
them whenever in class. This activity will be ongoing, and as the students
come across new characters we will make more to keep. (20 minutes).
-Have students get character cards set up (10 minutes)
- Read, as a class, American Born Chinese. As new characters come up we will
stop and discuss whether or not to include them in character cards. I need to
I will tell them that it is a character that is major enough to create a card for
(25 minutes).
-Closure (5 minutes)

Closure:
- Lesson closure will be a review of what we read and the characters we
discovered. Discussion questions (see discussion questions link below for
specific questions).
Resources needed:
- Butcher paper, materials for character cards, American Born Chinese, writing
notebooks.