1. “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”: Pre-Reading Activity
Do Now
On the KWL handout, make a list of what you know about werewolves.
Things to think about:
-characteristics of werewolves.
-what do they do?
-how do they act?
-werewolf stories, books, movies.

2. “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”: Pre-Reading Activity
STRATEGY FOR EFFECTIVE READING:
Activating Prior Knowledge Before You Read
TOPIC: Werewolves & Lycanthropy
OBJECTIVE: SWBAT apply their newly acquired and prior knowledge of werewolves to effectively make predictions about the text they will be reading.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What are the characteristics of werewolves?
How do traditional werewolf stories differ from modern day werewolf fiction?
How will my knowledge about werewolves help me make predictions and better understand the text we are going to be reading?
History's Mysteries: the Origin of Werewolves:

3. “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”: Pre-Reading Activity
PROCEDURES:
Review Do Now
Read sections of article as a class
Create KWL chart in groups
Consider psychology of werewolves and essential questions
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What are the characteristics of werewolves?
How do traditional werewolf stories differ from modern day werewolf fiction?
How will my knowledge about werewolves help me make predictions and better understand the text we are going to be reading?
History's Mysteries: the Origin of Werewolves:

4. (from others and the article)
ACTIVATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE TOPIC: Werewolves & Lycanthropy ARTICLE: Where do werewolves come from?
What I Know
What I Want to Know
What I Learned
(from others and the article)

5. WEREWOLVES: HISTORY AND ORIGIN

6. Anthrōpos = human being
LYCANTHROPY
lycanthropy
ly·can·thro·py
Lukos = wolf
Anthrōpos = human being
*Therefore, lyncanthropy is the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf.

7. WEREWOLF PSYCHOLOGY

8. WEREWOLOVES: POP CULTURE
TEEN WOLF – MTV series – teenager werewolf
basketball star
TRUE BLOOD – tv series
MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER – music video
TWILIGHT SERIES – novel and movie series – Jacob
HARRY POTTER – Remus
*Can you think of any others?

9. St. Lucy’s: Pre-Reading Activity
Closure/Wrap-Up
HOMEWORK TO BE HANDED IN:
Using your prior knowledge and what you have learned from the article and your classmates write a paragraph making predictions about what you think the text we are going to be reading will be about.

10. Vocabulary Lesson 1
Vocabulary to provide directly (will not include extended instruction)  lycanthropic (adj.) – relating to the magical transformation of a person into a wolf  Jesuit (n.) a member of a Roman Catholic religious order Vocabulary to teach (may include direct word work and/or text-dependent questions)  initial (adj.) – first or beginning  couth (adj.) showing or having good manners or sophistication  culture shock (n.) a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.  kempt (adj.) – neatly or tidily kept  exuberant (adj.) – extremely joyful and vigorous  kinetic (adj.) – characterized by movement  remedied (v.) – corrected or removed a problem of any kind