Organizational Text Structures

Today we review the organizational structure of a few pages in our textbook to understand it better.

AIM: I will define the organizational structure of a text and highlight 7 elements on our handout.

Standard: 7I.T-E.3 Use organizational structure of text to improve comprehension.

Do Now:
1) Vocabulary term: a human-made object that is left behind from a past civilization.
2) Vocabulary term: hominid that was known to be the first to make stone tools.
3) Vocabulary term: hominid that was the first one to walk upright.
4) Vocabulary term: time of day just as the sun is setting.

Lesson Steps:
Once we finished the Do Now we then reviewed Mr. Leslie's lesson and shared our connections to the vocabulary word: Mesopotamia. We then reviewed our activity in which we spent time highlighting the migration journey of hominids over millions of years.

We then turned to today's reading. We started with speculating on vocabulary word definitions by using context clues in discussion. We then looked at the cause and effect structure of today's reading. Students then got into groups and read pages 9-11 while filling out examples of cause and effect for each section of the reading. We then reviewed their answers before ending class.

Homework: No homework tonight.