Assessing and Reteaching Key Ideas with Langston Hughes Short Stories (view)
Units included with this Open Author resource:
- Day 1
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- Keywords:
- Key Ideas, Langston Hughes
- Day 2
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- Keywords:
- Langston Hughes, Character Traits, Conflict
- Day 3
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- Keywords:
- Langston Hughes, Key Ideas
Summary
This unit was planned as an intervention series for students struggling in this area of the standards. Our PLC selected these literary texts to teach because they are rich in key ideas and themes. Both stories are authored by Langston Hughes. "Thank You, Ma'am" will be used for the pretest. Then several actives will be used over the next two days to help students go deeper into the rich vocabulary, characterization, and themes of the story, to ultimately improve their understanding of the plot and key ideas. Finally, students will be asked to use some of the same comprehension strategies as they read the story, "Early Autumn." This will culminate in a post-test on the second story. It is to be used in three lessons, approximately 40 minutes each. A teacher could easily adapt the lesson to be used in a whole group setting, over the course of more days, before administering the final post assessment.