GossLesson+3

ENTER THREE WITCHES UNIT LESSON 3 Objectives: Materials: Activities: Assessments: The student’s individual literature circles papers will be collected and the teacher will walk around to each individual group to check for understanding. Modifications: The student with a visual impairment will be provided a text book with larger font or a magnifying class if a special text book is not available.
 * 1) The students will act out the next two chapters of Enter Three Witches in order to allow the students to become more connected to the characters.
 * 2) The students will read aloud in order to develop reading skills and check for fluency.
 * 3) The students will meet with their literature groups and discuss how their opinions of the characters are changing thus far in order to check for reading comprehension.
 * 1) Individual student notebooks, pencils, note taking materials
 * 2) Literature circles handout
 * 3) Enter Three Witches novel (each student has individual copies)
 * 1) Bellringer: Assign the students each a character who they will perform a read aloud for/act out. (10 minutes)
 * 2) Read: Chapters 5 & 6 of Enter Three Witches as a class. The teacher will allow for a break in the reading after chapter 5 to assign new students a character in chapter 6. ( 30 minutes) WHAT SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS ARE YOU GIVING THEM FOR ACTING OUT?
 * 3) Literature Groups: The students will get into their literature groups, and discuss how reading aloud and being the voice of a character allowed them to feel more connected to that individual character and whether that character is someone they would be proud to associate with or not. (10 minutes) READER'S THEATER...READ 5 AND 6 PREVIOUSLY ,WORK IN GROUPS TO CREATE A SCRIPT FROM THE CHAPTER, THEN READ DRAMATICALLY FOR THE CLASS
 * 4) Homework: None.