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Slow Way Home

In this lesson, students will make predictions about Chapter 18 of the book "Slow Way Home" and discuss their thoughts. They will also share information from an interview they conducted and practice writing a news story based on the interview. Additionally, students will explore the Storycorps website to gain inspiration for their own interview stories. They will then select the most interesting story from their interview and write a newspaper article within a specified time limit. Finally, students will review and revise their stories and find accompanying graphics for their articles.

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Slow Way Home

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  1. Slow Way Home Chapter 18 Unit 6 Lesson 2

  2. Sunshine State Standard • LA.910.4.2.2 The student will record information and ideas from primary and/or secondary sources accurately and coherently, noting the validity and reliability of these sources and attributing sources of information;

  3. Read Aloud • Chapter 18 of Slow Way Home • What do you think is going to happen in this chapter? • Tell the person next to you. • After the read aloud, talk about your predictions, and then predict what will happen in chapter 19

  4. Share • Share the information from the interview you did yesterday with the person sitting next to you.

  5. Practice • Now, write a one paragraph news story based on the interview. • Be certain to attribute the source for example, • According to (person’s complete name), age (age), “(what he/she says)” if quoting directly, or no quotes if paraphrasing.

  6. Teacher • Post your interview paragraph as an example for students to model. • You may want to write it in front of the students.

  7. Storycorps • Ok, after that practice session, you are pretty good at interviewing people, right? • Now we are going to look again at the Storycorps website • Remember, this is a national project that is attempting to preserve the stories of normal American citizens and archive them for the future.

  8. Storycorps Link listen to these stories This will give you an idea of the stories you hope to generate from the person you interview!

  9. Now, find the best story • That the person you interviewed told. • This is where you become the editor. • You can’t include everything in your article. • Only include the story that is the most interesting

  10. Talk it out • Help one another decide what is the best story gathered from the person you interviewed.

  11. Newspaper Deadline • Pretend that you have to get the story written in 25 minutes to hand to your editor so it can be printed in the paper. • Write your story in 25 minutes right now!

  12. Shape it! Make it interesting! • Give it a beginning, a middle and an end.

  13. After writing your story • Hand it to the person behind you. Have him/her pencil in corrections. Take five minutes for these corrections. • Then pass it back again. • Continue passing until everyone on your row has read your story and you have read all of their stories.

  14. Now, reread your story • Draft a final copy.

  15. Read it aloud • In groups of five, read your stories aloud to one another.

  16. Homework • Find graphics to go along with your story. • It may be pictures of the person you interviewed. • It may be pictures of the places they talk about. • Be creative. • Find pictures that illustrate your story. • If possible, save them on a thumb drive, or email them to yourself. • If not, bring hard copies to class tomorrow.

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