The Griot's Challenge: The Gift in the Storm
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Jasmine Bonner
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A Gift in the Storm
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Summarizing Objective
I can create oral and written summaries of literature by retelling the important event or ideas and identify the elements of the story.
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Team Cooperation Goal: Complete Tasks
REMEMBER: What does it look like to COMPLETE TASKS?
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Poll
How do you feel about spiders?
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Think-Pair-Share
What do you know about spiders?
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Summarizing
When we summarize we only tell the important details.
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Preview Team Talk Questions
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Watch part 1.
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Multiple Select
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Multiple Choice
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Open Ended
Now, let's write our answer in a complete sentence.
How does her lukasa help her to tell a story to
someone else?
Sentence Stem: Her Lukasa helps her tell a story to someone else because...
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Multiple Choice
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Open Ended
Now, write it in a complete sentence.
If you were to tell a friend the most‐important thing about a lukasa, what would
you say? (Write‐On)
Sentence Stem: I would say the most important thing about a lukasa is...
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The Griot's Challenge
Let's practice summarizing as we read: The Gift in the Storm
Use the Summarizing Card to help you retell important ideas as we read.
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Retell important events or ideas.
Kenyatta was born during a terrible storm,
and some say that the Sky gave her a gift.
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Retell important events or ideas.
With five children in the family, it was hard
for Kenyatta to feel special.
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Multiple Choice
Retell important events or ideas.
What was Kamili's special gift?
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Open Ended
Retell one important idea about Kantigi, from paragraph four.
Think about his special gift and what he could do.
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Multiple Choice
Why was Kenyatta sad?
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Summarizing Objective
I can create oral and written summaries of literature by retelling the important event or ideas and identify the elements of the story.
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Team Cooperation Goal: Complete Tasks
THINK: What does it look like to COMPLETE TASKS?
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THINK: Why is summarizing as we read helpful?
It helps us remember the important parts of a story.
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Story Map
A story map helps us retell the important parts of a story, just like Mother Griot's Lukasa! It has all the things from our strategy card to look for when retelling.
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Remember to think, speak, and talk in complete sentences using the sentence stem.
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Watch part 2: Summarizing with Story Elements”
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Multiple Select
What are the story elements?
Choose all the story elements.
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Summarizing/Retelling
They used their own words.
They focused on what was important.
They combined information.
They eliminated less important details
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Multiple Choice
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Open Ended
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Let's Identify Story Elements in the story: A Gift in the Storm
Main Characters
Setting
Problem
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STORY MAP
Take a few minutes to fill out our story maps with the title, characters, setting, and problem.
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A Gift in the Storm
Day 5
Review : How does summarizing help you become a better reader?
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Preview Team Talk Questions
Let's look at the write on rubric too!
#1. What did you notice about the way they summarized the story?
#2. What was the hardest part of writing a summary? What was the easiest part?
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Watch part 5: Summarizing the Story Map
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THINK!
#1. What did you notice about how they summarized the story?
Think about the story map and it's important events.
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Writing a Summary
Now, let's use our completeted story map to write our summary.
Look at the important events , problem, & solution and begin to summarize in paragraph form.
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Open Ended
What was the hardest part of writing a summary?
* Sentence Stem: The hardest part of writing a summary was...
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Open Ended
What was the easiest part of writing a summary?
Sentence Stem: The easiest part of writing a summary was...
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A Gift in the Storm
Day 6- Review Summarizing
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Summarizing Objective
I can create oral and written summaries of literature by retelling the important event or ideas and identify the elements of the story.
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Team Cooperation Goal: Complete Tasks
REMEMBER: What does it look like to COMPLETE TASKS?
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Crossword puzzles
Crossword puzzles are fun way to review vocabulary and ideas we have learned.
Clues are at the bottom of the page.
There is one word/answer for each clue.
Look at the example before we try.
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Summarizing Crossword Puzzle
TW display larger version of crossword to complete together.
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Preview Team Talk Questions- Summarizing Card
1. What are the 3 steps to summarizing?
2. What helps you figure out what's important in a story?
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Preview Team Talk Questions- Story Map
#3. What are the story elements?
#4. How does the story problem help you find the important events in a story?
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Watch part 6: Lukasa Storyteller’s Academy Junior Griot Test
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Multiple Select
What are the 3 steps to summarizing? Choose 3 that we discussed.
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Discuss: #2 What helps you figure out what is important in the story?
Think about each part of the story map.
Story elements
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Open Ended
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STORY ELEMENTS- Look on our Story Map
Characters
Setting
Problem
Important Events
Solution
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Story Problem
#4. How does the story problem help you find the important events in a story? (Write-On)
THINK about the problem in the story.
THINK about WHY it was a problem.
THINK about how the problem was solved.
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Open Ended
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List the students who have recieved the Junior Griot Certificate for superb summarizing skills.
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