The Sign of the Beaver Novel Study Fourth Grade ELA The Sign of the Beaver Novel Study Week Twelve, Day One This session will be recorded for learning purposes.  Learning purposes include: a lesson review for students who are absent, students who want to review for a test, etc. and will be distributed for learning purposes.

Review Throughout this unit we will be covering ALL of the Reading Literature Standards for Fourth Grade! Let’s Review!

Briefly review each standard

Briefly review each standard

Briefly review each standard

Briefly review each standard

Briefly review each standard

Phonics Phonics Objective: Phonics RF 4.3 Teacher Model: I DO Ask students to explain the meaning copilot. Tell them that you coteach Phonics RF 4.3 Teacher Model: I DO

Getting Ready to Read Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the changing frontier. Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Honor-winning survival story is filled with wonderful detail about living in the wilderness and the relationships that formed between settlers and natives in the 1700s.

With your buddy, find the definitions to the following words. Send students into BO with a partner for a few minutes to try to find the definitions to the word using www.dictionary.com

Vocabulary reckoned = counted, calculated, or figured notch = a cut or mark made in an object in order to keep a tally loft = a room or storage area within a sloping roof chink = a crack or narrow opening ruefully = causing sorrow or pitty

The Sign of the Beaver Historical Fiction = setting that attempts to show the way of life during a time in the past. May be based on real events, but also includes characters and experiences from the author’s imagination. Have you read other historical fiction stories? What do you know about America in the year 1768?

Where do you think Matt’s father is going? RL 4.1 Teacher Read Aloud Where do you think Matt’s father is going? RL 4.1 What can we tell about Matt based on evidence from the text thus far? RL 4.3

How do you think Matt is feeling right now? How do you know? Teacher Read Aloud How do you think Matt is feeling right now? How do you know? RL 4.1 Summarize Matt’s family’s plan. RL 4.2 Reading Skill; Teacher models skill

What type of text is this? Poetry, drama, or prose? Teacher Read Aloud What type of text is this? Poetry, drama, or prose? RL 4.5 Why does Matt think making notches is silly? RL 4.1

Who is more nervous about Matt’s dad leaving? Teacher Read Aloud Who is more nervous about Matt’s dad leaving? RL 4.1, 4.3

How would you feel if you were Matt? RL 4.1

Team Reading Reread the first chapter, then answer the questions using COMPLETE SENTENCES!

RL 4.2 RL 4.2 Save student examples to review whole group. RL 4.1

Closure What do you think about Matt so far? How would you describe him?

Homework Your task tonight is to find out some facts about our author! Download the Author Study page from our website and we will share our findings tomorrow! Place page on website. Does not need to be submitted