Lesson 13 Blood on the River

Do Now:

Loot at the front cover of your “Blood on the River”
book. Read the back. Discuss the following with your group.

How do you think “Blood on the River” relates to our unit book "Written in Bone."

Lesson 13: Analyzing how setting and characters

interact in a literary text

Standard: RL 7.3- Analyze how story elements

interact. (Settings & Characters)

Objective: I can explain how the settings and

characters affect Samuel.

We’ve been reading informational
texts and analyzing the author’s

purpose and how the author

distinguishes his or her purpose

from others.

Today we will:

● Read aloud Blood on the River

by Elisa Carbone.

● Analyze how the setting and

characters influence the main
character, Samuel.

Why is it important? Each lesson is preparing you for your Cumulative Writing Task? The objective is that you will write an essay about the central idea of the text and to explain how it develops throughout the book.

You will need:

● Blood on the River by Elisa

Carbone

● Two different colored sticky

notes

●
Read along while I read aloud.

●
Listen as I mode identifying details
related to how the setting and
characters in the text influence the
main character, Samuel.

●
Use these symbols for your
annotations.

○
S: notes on how the setting
influences Samuel

○
C: notes on how other characters
influence Samuel

S

C

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With your partner:

●
Read and place sticky notes next to
details related to how the setting and
characters in the text influence the
main character, Samuel.

●
Use these symbols for your
annotations.

○
S: notes on how the setting
influences Samuel

○
C: notes on how other characters
influence Samuel

S

C

● Look back over your sticky notes.

● Work with a partner to write at

least one note explaining how the
setting influenced Samuel and
one note about how a character
influenced Samuel.

S

C

Open Ended

Let's Share your thoughts

1. Write 1 sentence about how the setting influenced Samuel.

2. Write 1 sentence about how the characters influenced Samuel.

How do the setting and the characters influence

Samuel?

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Think about this question
with your partner.

● Read the rest of Chapter 9 with a

partner.

● As you read, continue to use your

sticky notes to mark details
related to how the setting and
characters in the text influence
the main character, Samuel.

Expectations for Exit ticket

Follow the guide for labeling your paper on the next slide.
You do not have to write the question.
Answer the question in a complete sentence.
Once you are done hold your paper until I call for them.

● Look over the sticky notes

that you have placed in the
text.

Explain how the setting
influenced Samuel and how a
character influenced Samuel.

Exit
Ticket

​Lesson:

Homework

Materials you will need

Read Chapter 10 of Blood on the River. A copy of Blood on the River

by Elisa Carbone

Monitor how the setting and other
characters influence Samuel as you
read. Make 3 annotations on sticky
notes:

●S: notes on how setting impacts
Samuel

●C: notes on how other characters
influence Samuel

3 sticky notes

In this lesson, you learned that the setting and
other characters influence how Samuel feels,

thinks, and acts.

You also practiced annotating the text to monitor
and analyze how setting and characters interact

in a literary text.