Celebrating the Individual Empowers Many

Name: Jessica Lee

Unit Overview
DAY #1
After the read-aloud and
Grand Conversation
students will be able to
explain how the
illustrations in The
Invisible Boy contribute to
the words in the story.

DAY #2
After guided practice,
students will be able
to write an
appropriate interview
question for our
community guests.

DAY #3

DAY #4

After interviewing our

guests, students will be able
to write a sentence giving
and example of a service
provided by local business
and industry.

After the writing practice,

students will demonstrate the
ability to generate a draft by
selecting and organizing ideas
relevant to the topic and
purpose.

Standard
s
Materials

NCSS; 4:IDI IAS: 3. RL. 4. 1

NCSS: I,G,I ;IAS: 3.1.6

NCSS: PDC; IAS: 3.4.2

NCSS: PAG ;IAS: 6.2.1

Markers, colored pencils,

Book: The Invisible Boy,
To print: response sheets

Students: pencil, paper

Teacher: Computer,
projector, online timer
To print: Exit slips

Students: Paper, pencil

Teacher: Sample Thank You
letter, whiteboard, marker
Technology: Document
Camera, projector

Managem
ent

Students will come to

carpet with 3 oclock clock
buddy and continue to
work with them throughout
the lesson.

Students: paper,
pencil
Technology: Projector,
computer, Prezi:
https://prezi.com/v6fel
uwqbh1z/interviews/
Students will be
seated at their desks.
Students engage in
questions during Prezi.

Students will be engaged

in their own letter writing
and will be able to write
their thank you to
whomever they desire.

Anticipat
ory Set

Pretend to be preparing for

lesson and act like the
students are invisible.
Introduce the concept of
feeling invisible to others.

Review 20 questions
and discuss how that
is similar to how we
interview for inquiry.

Mrs. James and I model

what their behavior
should be when they are
interviewing our guests.
There will be a timer. I will
let students know when
they should be finishing
up their questions.
What did you do
yesterday? Recall daily
routine and discuss the
people who help make
those things possible.
What would happen
without them?

Purpose

Today were going to learn

about how the pictures in a
book add meaning to the
words in a story.

Today were going to

interview our guests to learn
about the important roles
that they play in our
community.

Today were going to learn

how to write Thank You
letters, and then use those
skills to encourage people
who have impacted our lives.

Lesson
Presentat
ion

INPUT: Read The Invisible

Boy and have Grand
Conversation.
OUTPUT: Students will
write about when they feel
invisible and illustrate their
partners sentence.

Today were going to

learn about
interviews. Interviews
help us learn
information right from
the source.
INPUT: Prezi and
modeling of interview
OUTPUT: Students
respond with what
good interview
manners are and write
their own interview
questions.

INPUT: Students work in

their reading groups and
go station to station
interviewing our guests to
learn what they do and
why its important.
OUTPUT: Students guess
what the person does and
ask questions to learn
how they help the
community.
Students take turns
sharing what they
learned.
Exit slips to write about a
guests job and how they
help people.
Exit slips on which
students write a sentence
about what a guest does
and how they help
people.
EXNEEDS: Give them
helping questions
Enrich: additional
questions specific to job

INPUT: Discussion of
Thank You Letters
Who do we write them to?
Modeling
OUTPUT:

Objective

Closure
or
Conclusio
n

Students will have the

opportunity to share their
writing and receive
applause from their
classmates

Formativ
e
Assessme
nt

-The students response

during the Grand
Conversation
-Students sentences and
illustrations
Write model sentence with
a blank for them to fill in
what makes them feel
invisible.

Adaptatio
ns

Summati
ve
Assessme
nt
(as
needed)

Ask 2 oclock partners

what they learned and
tell students to keep
their questions.

Student goes in the

hallway and class
collaborates
encouragement. Student
enters to applause and
kind words.
How does it feel to be
celebrated?

Writing of Thank You letters

Discussion of gratitude and

the purpose behind thank
you notes
Debrief how it made us
feel to write the letters.

Questions that
Thank you letters
students have written.
Their discussion of
something new that
they learned.
Work one on one with
Remediation: Review
students who need
template and provide
help writing interview
example
questions.
EXNEEDS: Give preStudents who need
planning guide and
enrichment can peer
minimize required
review with a partner
sentences
and evaluate each
Enrich: Illustrations
others questions.
At the conclusion of the unit, students create a final draft of their Thank You letter. We will
have a readers theater day and each student will have two students assigned to them that will
tell them something that they loved about their drawing and their letter.