Topic: Cancer

* Come in quietly and sit in your assigned seat. * Please unpack and place the following items on your desk: * ELA binder * Today’s lesson graphic organizer * Pen or pencil * Place your backpacks under your desk. * Fill in your proper heading information. * Complete the “warm up” section of your handout. * Remain quiet and prepare for learning.

In what ways can cancer affect our life?

* D-Engage in discussions with your class, your peer group, your teacher and with individual students. (ELACC7SL1) * R-Locate and cite textual evidence from the informational article you read. (ELACC7RI1) * A-Demonstrate knowledge of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. * (ELACC7L1) * W-Reflect and connect to the reading by writing routinely over shorter time frames. (ELACC7W10)

As you look at the following pictures, What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer?

SourceText Evidence (must include page and line numbers) My Thinking Pictures: Smiles Bald Hospital band Different races, ages, gender, and places I feel sad for them but they look hopeful. They are still loving and laughing Joyful Some people are proud of their cancer.

As you read the poem, What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer?

SourceText Evidence (must include page and line numbers) My Thinking (What were you thinking while reading the poem?) Poem: Not Again By Linda Nielsen Ex. “Why can’t cancer stay away, after fighting it so strong.” (2.1-2) Note: The stanza is in red and period should come behind the stanza.

1. *! It really makes me angry, 2. hen a friend who’s near and dear. 3. has another disappointment, 4. of something we all fear. 1. Why can’t cancer stay away, 2. after fighting it so strong. 3. We hoped it was gone forever, 4. but apparently we were wrong. Stanza #1 Stanza #2

As you read the article, What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer?

What Is Cancer? Cancer is a scary word. Almost everyone knows someone who got very sick or died from cancer. Most of the time, cancer affects older people. Not many kids get cancer, but when they do, very often it can be treated and cured. What Is Cancer? Cancer is actually a group of many related diseases that all have to do with cells. Cells are the very small units that make up all living things, including the human body. There are billions of cells in each person's body. *Cancer happens when cells that are not normal grow and spread very fast. Normal body cells grow and divide and know to stop growing. Over time, they also die. Unlike these normal cells, cancer cells just continue to grow and divide out of control and don't die when they're supposed to. Cancer cells usually group or clump together to form tumors (say: TOO-mers). A growing tumor becomes a lump of cancer cells that can destroy the normal cells around the tumor and damage the body's healthy tissues. This can make someone very sick. Sometimes cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel to other areas of the body, where they keep growing and can go on to form new tumors. This is how cancer spreads. The spread of a tumor to a new place in the body is called metastasis (say: meh-TASS-tuh-sis).

SourceText Evidence (must include page and line numbers) My Thinking (What are you thinking as you were reading this piece of text or looking at the pictures?) Article: What is Cancer? org Example: “Cancer happens when cells that are not normal grow and spread very fast.” (p. 3; line 1)

* As you read the poem and the article, What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer? * Text Evidence: Here you will write exactly what the text (poem and article) say about how a person is affected when he/she has cancer. * My Thinking: Here you will write your thoughts and feelings that you have about what you have read. * Remember our guiding question listed above in RED. * Today you will read two pieces of texts: * A poem- Not Again By Linda Nielsen * An article “What Is Cancer?”

As a class we will now create a constructed response answering the following question: * What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer? * Cite textual evidence and further explain your answer.

FrameworkClass Example S: State the topic sentence from the question E: Give evidence from the text to show how well it supports your answer E: Give further explanation to strengthen the evidence C: Conclude by referring back to the question I can conclude that an individual with cancer has ups and downs. As shown in the pictures of cancer patients, many of them were smiling. Therefore, many of them have a positive outlook on cancer. Constructed Response As a class we will now create a constructed response answering the following question: What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer? Cite textual evidence and further explain your answer. Remember to include the who, what, when, where, why, and how.

FrameworkClass Example S: State the topic sentence from the question E: Give evidence from the text to show how well it supports your answer E: Give further explanation to strengthen the evidence C: Conclude by referring back to the question An individual living with cancer has a challenging life. From the article, “What is Cancer?”, it states that individuals living with cancer take radiation and chemotherapy to treat the cancer. Some patients are hopeful and happy but some are angry and scared like the author of the poem, “Not Again” by Linda Nielson. As seen above, an individual living with cancer goes through a lot but keeps fighting the disease. Constructed Response As a class we will now create a constructed response answering the following question: What can you conclude about an individual living with cancer? Cite textual evidence and further explain your answer. Remember to include the who, what, when, where, why, and how.