Reading Informational Text 5.RI.1

1. Reading Informational Text 5.RI.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

2. Anticipatory Set

3. Input • Inference- a conclusion based on observations, knowledge, or experiences.

4. Input • Inferences are the able to draw conclusions without being told directly. • Good readers make inferences in order to better understand what they are reading. • By drawing inferences you can spot patterns and relationships in the text. • Readers use clues to help them make inferences.

5. Modeling Text Questions What is the paragraph about? The paragraph is listing the events that led up to the revolutionary war. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.

6. Modeling Text Questions How do you think the Bostonians felt about Parliament after the Boston Massacre? I can infer that the Bostonians were upset with Parliament. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.

7. Modeling Text Questions What clues did you use to make this inference? The clues I use to make this inference was that the Bostonians boarded British ships and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable, or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts.

8. Checking For Understanding Text Questions What is the paragraph about? The paragraph is about how the people in the United States were planning to gain their independence. Before the Revolutionary War they had secret meetings which started with the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in September of 1774. In all, 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) got together to decide what to do in response to gaining their independence from Britain. They urged people to get their guns and fight the British. But the British army was large and well-trained. American leaders knew it would be a desperate fight.

9. Checking For Understanding Text Questions What do you think the they were planning to do? I can infer from the text that they were planning on declare a fight or war to gain their independence. Before the Revolutionary War they had secret meetings which started with the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in September of 1774. In all, 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) got together to decide what to do in response to gaining their independence from Britain. They urged people to get their guns and fight the British. But the British army was large and well-trained. American leaders knew it would be a desperate fight.

10. Checking For Understanding Text Questions What clues did you use to make this inference? The clues I use to make this inference was that they urged the people to get fire arms to use to fight the British and the meeting was a secret from Britain. Before the Revolutionary War they had secret meetings which started with the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia in September of 1774. In all, 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) got together to decide what to do in response to gaining their independence from Britain. They urged people to get their guns and fight the British. But the British army was large and well-trained. American leaders knew it would be a desperate fight.

11. Guided Practice • WKST #1-3 Independent Practice • WKST # 1-3