Module 3 Lesson 1 Narrating the Unknown

Vocabulary Journal

​Word	​Definition	​Synonym
prophecy (n.)	prediction; message about future	​
gullible (adj.)	easily tricked; believes anything	​
adapt (v.)	change; modify	​

Write "M3 Lesson 1" and the Date at the top of the page in your Response Journal.

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Prepare your Response Journal

When have we seen characters from past modules leave their homeland (or comfort zone) and head into the unknown? Choose one character, and discuss them with your group.

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Response Journal: ELA Binder

​How did the social and environmental factors in the unknown world of Jamestown shape its development and decline?

Essential Question

How do the settlers respond to the challenges of the journey to the unknown.

Focusing Question

Wonder: What do I notice and Wonder about Blood on the River?

Content Framing

When have we seen characters from past modules leave their homeland (or comfort zone) and head into the unknown? Choose one character, and discuss them with your group.

Share Your Responses......

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Response Journal: ELA Binder

Superstructure

Based on your experience in "Could you Survive in Jamestown" What are some of the unkowns that settlers might have faced?

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Journey into the Unkown

Superstructure

Blood on the River is Historical Fiction, like "Bud, not Buddy" and "Out of the Dust", but is different in that is has been extensively researched and features the real settlers who settled Jamestown, and the real American Indians who were their neighbors, and the real events that each experienced. It also included dialogue and events created by the author.

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Blood on the River

An urchin means a "misbehaving, poor child".

ELA Journal: With your group write what observations and inferences did you make about the back cover's details, and what do these details make you wonder about Blood on the River?
*We will discuss these answers in class.

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Read the Back Cover of "Blood on the River"

What details about this map stand out to you, or what do you find interesting?

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epigraph (n.): A relevant quote located at the beginning of a text or chapter.

Prophecy (n.): A warning about events in the future.

Vocabulary

• Read Page 1

• Epigraph at the beginning of each Chapter
  Taken from Primary Source Documents

• The prophecy, included at the beginning of chapter one, was recorded as being delivered to Chief Powhatan by his priests around the year 1607.

• Epigraph gives a clue about the chapters events
  

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Blood on the River

EdPuzzle
Chapter 1
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London 1600s

Return for Exit Ticket after EdPuzzle

Reorder

Put the events of Chapter 1 in the correct order.

• A prophecy predicts that the Powhatan kingdom will eventually be destroyed by the settlers.

• We meet Samuel and he breaks into a pawn shop to steal his dead mother's locket, and runs away from the pawnshop owner.

• Samuel finds a place to hide, and he falls asleep.

• Samuel is caught and is going to be taken to the magistrate.

• Samuel blacks out after being hit by the pawnshop owner's son.

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Open Ended

Exit Ticket: Explain your most powerful observation so far about Samuel, what can be inferred about Samuel from it, and what question(s) arise from it?