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Grade: Grade 3
Subject: English Language Arts
Created by:
Shannon Stassin
Lesson Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Keywords/Tags: quarterback, football, game
Lesson Description: This lesson includes material pertaining to reading comprehension, vocabulary usage, critical thinking questions, and an essay prompt on the story "A Lesson on The Big Game". Students will individually complete the assigned reading then answer vocabulary questions, discussion questions and complete an essay prompt.
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Common Core Standards Covered with This Lesson
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1b: Provide reasons that support the opinion.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3b: Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4a: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4d: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
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Lesson Content: Reading
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| Instructions: Please read the following reading passage as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the passage if needed. |
The Big Game
It was Friday. The football game was Saturday and we were very excited. My brother was going to be the quarterback for our team. It was the first time he would be in that position. He had been hoping to be quarterback ever since he joined the team. He said, “That’s the big job. That’s the one that makes the big difference.”
My mother said, “Be careful, son. That’s the big target, too. You know the other players want to sack you. You can get hurt.”
“Don’t worry; I’m tough and I’m fast. Plus, I have great players who will block them.”
That night I couldn’t sleep well. I worried about my brother. My mother was right. He could get hurt.
The next morning, he left early to get to the game. When we got there, it was about to start. The team ran out on the field. He looked great. He saw us and waved.
Then it started. They were playing hard. One player in particular from the other team kept rushing at him. Then it happened. He knocked my brother down. My brother was slow to get up. My mother was screaming. The coach ran out on the field. He told my brother to take some time on the bench. He was afraid he had been hurt.
My mother ran down to check on my brother. But all he did was smile. “It’s just a bruise. I’m fine. And don’t worry, I’ll be back. This is great. I love leading the team.”
My mother was so worried then, but my brother was right. He plays quarterback every Saturday. She can’t go to the games. She just waits at home and hopes to see him walking in smiling.
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Task 1: Vocabulary Activity
(40 points)
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| Instructions: Please complete the following vocabulary activity by choosing the correct meaning of each word selected from the passage and use of each word correctly in a sentence. |
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4a, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4d, |
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Task 2: Discussion Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic. |
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In your opinion. . .
In your opinion, should the main charactrs brother continue to play football?
Sent on: Feb 19, 2017 by: Shannon Stassin |
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In the story. . .
In the story, the quaterbacks brother is unable to sleep the night before the big game. Why was he worried, and how did he feel by the end of the story?
Sent on: Feb 19, 2017 by: Shannon Stassin |
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Why do you feel. . .
After the quarterback got knocked down in the game he stood right back up and eventually finished the game. Why do you think the quarterback did that, and continue to play game after game?
Sent on: Feb 19, 2017 by: Shannon Stassin |
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1b, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3b, |
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Task 3: Writing Activity
(30 points)
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| Instructions: The quarterback showed courage and sportsmanship when he returned to the field. Describe in two paragraphs a time when you displayed courage. This can be in a sport, in school, etc. Be creative with your response!
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| Standards Covered with This Lesson Activity: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3, |
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