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Observation #4
Date: 2/16/2016
Lesson: Drama- summarizing, point of view, context clues
Grade: 3rd
Time: 60 minutes
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas,
and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently
and proficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.6
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the
characters.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Objective:
Students will be able to summarize the main events of a drama by
underlining or otherwise identifying the important details.
Students will be able to determine the narrator and other characters
point of view along with establishing their own point of view.
Students will be able to use context clues from the dramas text to
identify the meaning of a word they were previously unfamiliar with.
Materials Needed:
Drama packet
Copy of How Honeybee Got Her Stinger for each student
Summary chart
BEFORE (10 minutes):
Practicing the skill, summarizing: We will begin by practicing the skill of
summarizing the main events of a scene from a play Jack and the
Beanstalk. This is a skill that students should be using during their
first read, making sure that they really understand what is happening
in the story. We will practice this skill by reading the short scene as a
class, underlining and identifying the main events. Students will each
write a brief summary of the scene on their personal white boards.
Students will then turn to their partners and share their sentence. I will
ask two students to share their sentences.
Practicing the skill, point of view of the narrator: We will then transition
into how to distinguish the narrators point of view in a drama, which is
a skill needed to focus on the second read. By distinguishing the