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Fever 1793

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What are your expectations and roles?

Lesson Questions

• Essential Question-How can times of crisis affect citizens and society?

• Focusing Question-In what context did the yellow fever pandemic of 1793 emerge?

• Content Framing Question- Wonder: What do I notice and wonder about Fever 1793? 

Learning Goals:

Formulate questions and observations about Fever 1793. (RL.7.1)

✓ Complete a Notice and Wonder T-chart. 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.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.

How can times of crisis affect citizens and society?

Crisis (n.)

a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.

What challenge or challenges has a character faced in one of the books we have read this year?

How did the character respond?

Did the challenge that the character faced rise to the level of a crisis? Explain why or why not.

How did that crisis affect the people involved?

In this lesson we will read the opening chapters of Fever 1793 and begin to discover the setting of the crisis.

Notice and Wonder:

Create a Notice and Wonder T-chart . (create it using a piece of paper, notes, or the Google Classroom chart)

 

As you listen to the text read aloud, you should follow along with your online pdf text and consider what you notice and wonder.

You will answer on Quizizz your findings.

Open Ended

What do you notice and wonder about the front cover?

Small Groups:

• Roles- Leaders and Chat Monitors

• Leaders- Share the Video/PDF

• Chat Monitors- Lead discussions and read responses.

• LIsten/Read Chapters 1-2

• You will jot down Notice and Wonders with answering a few questions.

Discussion Questions

• Group 1- What did you notice and wonder about what it was like to be a girl or a woman in 1793?

• Group 2- What did you notice and wonder about the way Anderson develops the plot in this chapter?

• Group 3- What did you notice and wonder about what it was like to be an African American in Philadelphia in 1793?

• Group 4- What did you notice and wonder about the city of Philadelphia and its citizens?

Small Group Time

Notice and Wonder answering questions

Open Ended

What did you notice and wonder from chapters 1 and 2?

Whole Group Questions:

• What did you notice about the way the story is being told?

• How is it similar to or different from other books we have read?

• What did you notice and wonder about the narrator of the story and her family?

Let's Discuss

• Group 1- What did you notice and wonder about what it was like to be a girl or a woman in 1793?

• Group 2- What did you notice and wonder about the way Anderson develops the plot in this chapter?

• Group 3- What did you notice and wonder about what it was like to be an African American in Philadelphia in 1793?

• Group 4- What did you notice and wonder about the city of Philadelphia and its citizens?

✓ Have you ever had a crisis? If so, what was it and how did you handle it? If not, what could you consider a crisis?

You can complete it on Quizizz or GC.

Open Ended

✓ Have you ever had a crisis? If so, what was it and how did you handle it? If not, what could you consider a crisis?

How can times of crisis affect citizens and society?

Did we:

• Discuss: What do I notice and wonder about Fever 1793? 

• Complete a Notice and Wonder T-chart or answer on Quizizz 

• Answer your exit ticket about a crisis.

As we continue reading Fever 1793 and learning more about the developing crisis, we will also build skills in research.

Homework

Read/Listen to chapters 3-5 of Fever, 1793