Teacher: Rachel Rhoades Date: November 14, 2017

Period Length: 69 minutes Lesson: #4 for Student Teaching Observation

School: Rocky Top Middle School Grade: 7th
Content Area: English Title: Identity Readers Response
Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson: (Write Content Standards directly from the standard)
RI.7.1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences
drawn from the text.

Objectives: (Big Ideas)

Students will be able to find multiple pieces of textual evidence to discuss why there are so many fatalities on Mt.
Everest as well as the challenges that the climbers of Mt. Everest face when climbing.

Materials: (Everything that the students will need to be successful in class)

Students will need:
o Rescue Response Packet
o Rescue Response Text-Based Questions
Procedures: (Step by step through the lesson activities)
1. Warm-up: Answer questions on text we read the day before. (15 minutes)
2. Go over the answers for the text-based questions for the radio interview, Helicopter Rescues Increasing on Everest.
(These questions should have been answered for homework the night before.)
3. Go over what the students need to spend the rest of the class period doing: annotate and answer the text-based
questions for the informational article, Why Everest.
4. Students get the rest of class to work on annotating the article and answering the text-based questions for the article.
5. When there are 2-3 minutes left in class, I will tell the students their homework: to finish reading/annotating Why
Everest, finish answering the text-based questions for the article.
Accommodations/Modifications: (How will you meet all students in the class?)
The students get over half of the class period to work on annotating the article and answering the text-based
questions, so they have at least 40 minutes to ask me any question that they may have on the article or the text-based
questions. This means that there is the opportunity for a lot of individual attention for the students who need it.
The students highlight the three different parts of the text-based questions in different colors so that they are able to
see if they have all three of the parts in each of their answers. The students are familiar with the format of these
questions because we have been working on them all year.
Assessment: (How do you know that the students got what they needed to?)
The way that we will know if the students got what they needed to from the article, Why Everest, is with the answers
that they give to their text-based questions. If they are able to answer the question correctly and also use the correct
format, it will be obvious that they comprehended not only what the article was saying, but also how to format their
answers to the text-based questions.
We will also know if the students got what the needed to from the article, Why Everest, when they write their
argumentative essay at the end of this unit. If they are able to use textual evidence from the article to help prove
whether or not people should be rescued, then it will show us that they comprehended what happened in the article
as well as how to pull relevant textual evidence from an article to help prove what they are trying to say.