October 16, 2017
Background Knowledge for The Crucible/ How to Write A Summary
CCSS/CLGs/SC Assessment Limits/Standards: Agenda: (What is the snapshot of my class flow?)
(What are the skills being taught? Which standards
are being specifically addressed in this lesson?) Do Now (4 min)
Announcements (2 min)
Focus Standard: RI.11-12.2* Agenda and Objective (1 min)
Review Do Now/ KWL chart (3 min)
RI.11-12.1
RI.11-12.7
Brief Video (10 min)
W.11-12.2 Read and Annotate (25)
W.11-12.10 Model
Partner Read
Review ET/ Homework (10)
Homework: Complete Reading and Brief
Writing Assignment
Lesson Objective: (What will my students KNOW by Assessment: (What question will students answer to
the end of the lesson? What will they DO to learn it?) show that they have reached the daily objective and
understood the text? What will students do to show
SWBAT discover the main idea and summarize what they have mastered the basic knowledge/skills within
the text says. the objective?)
Exit Ticket/Homework:
In at least two paragraphs, write a summary of
the Salem Witch trials using details from the
text.
Question to keep in mind: What key ideas
play an important role throughout the text?
INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
Get started/Drill/Do Now: (What meaningful activity will students complete as soon as they enter the
classroom?)
(5 min) Do Now
Complete first box of the KWL chart
As students complete box, pass around post it note for students to write what they already know down to
add to the class KWL chart later.
Assure students that it is ok if they do not know anything about the trials but ask what they think
it is about.
The new article of the week is in the back of the classroom!! It is due next Monday!
Whole Group Instruction: (Focus lessons [explicit teaching/modeling, strategy demonstration, activate
prior knowledge], shared reading, shared writing, discussion, writing process.)
Agenda and Objective:
Today we will be reading some background information on our first extended text of the year,
The Crucible. We will be creating objective summaries using the information we see in a video
and we read.
Have students copy the objective onto their weekly sheets.
Whole Group:
Watch video twice. After first viewing direct students to fill in the second portion of their chart.
What have they learned from the video? Tell them if they missed something, I will play it
again.
Give students time to continue answering chart.
Give students with strong answers pink post its to add to class KWL chart.
Reading-Model:
(Doc Cam) Read first three paragraphs and conduct think aloud. BE SURE TO REFER TO
NOTES!
Think aloud:
The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. Hmm I know
when I write a summary, I need to ask myself when are the events taking place. I am going to highlight
this sentence and in the margin write When so that when I go to write my summary I will know
exactly when the events occurred. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraftthe
Devil's magicand 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and
compensated the families of those convicted. Since then, the story of the trials has become synonymous
with paranoia and injustice, and it continues to beguile the popular imagination more than 300 years
later.
Several centuries ago, many practicing Christians, and those of other religions, had a strong belief that
the Devil could give certain people known as witches the power to harm others in return for their
loyalty. A "witchcraft craze" rippled through Europe from the 1300s to the end of the 1600s. Tens of
thousands of supposed witchesmostly womenwere executed. Though the Salem trials came on just
as the European craze was winding down, local circumstances explain their onset. Now I have to think
about the other questions I need to answer in my summary, who what when where why how. In this
paragraph the author is trying to give a possible explanation for why the harmful events took place in
Salem by providing some background information. In the margin beside this paragraph I will write
why and then paraphrase this paragraph into one sentence. There was a history of a belief in
witchcraft even before the Salem Witch Trials.
Now its your turn. Partner read the rest of the Witch trials document. Annotating in order to
write an objective summary
Pull students in B group to back workstation to partner read with me.
Instruct them to create a graphic organizer with the six boxes who what when where
why how
Give early finishers the ET/HW early.
Independent Practice: (individual practice, discussion, writing process.)
Exit Ticket/Homework:
In at least two paragraphs, write a summary of the Salem Witch trials using details from the text.
Question to keep in mind: What key ideas play an important role throughout the text?
On a post-it, write one Question you still have about the Salem WItch Trials.
