1. Module 1 Unit 2 Lesson 5
Practice Evidence-Based Constructed Response: Explaining One Factor That Helps Nya Or Salva Survive (Chapters 11-13)

2. AGENDA Opening Work Time Closing and Assessment Homework
Vocabulary Entry Task: Chapters 11–13 (5 minutes)
Returning Reader’s Notes and Gathering Textual Evidence Organizers (5 minutes)
Work Time
Reviewing Chapters 11–13: Adding to Our Anchor Charts (5 minutes)
Modeling and Independent Practice: Writing a Short Evidence-Based Constructed Response (25 minutes)
Closing and Assessment
Self-Assessment of Evidence-Based Constructed Response (5 minutes)
Homework
Reread Chapters 11–13 and add quotes to Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer
Read Chapters 14–15 and complete Reader’s Notes (both parts) for these new chapters

3. MATERIALS A Long Walk to Water (book; one copy per student)
Vocabulary Entry Task (one per student)
Salva/Nya anchor chart (begun in Lesson 2)
Survival anchor chart (begun in Lesson 1)
Evidence-Based Constructed Response sheet (one per student)
Quote Sandwich graphic (one to display)
Document camera
Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer, Chapters 11–13 (one per student)
Reader’s Notes, Chapters 14 and 15 (one per student)

4. Spare (adj) Persistence (n) Persistent (adj) Persist (v) Stampede (74)
LESSON VOCABULARY
Spare (adj)
Persistence (n)
Persistent (adj)
Persist (v)
Stampede (74)
Despair (72)
Peril (80)

5. OPENING: VOCABULARY ENTRY TASK (5 MINUTES)
Distribute and Review the Vocabulary Entry Task
1. What does despair mean? Why does Salva feel despair? What is the relationship between despair and desperate?
2. Why is it dangerous to be in a stampede?

6. “How do these words make sense in stampede?”
OPENING CONTINUED…
Share your answers:
“Stampede” is an American word derived from a Spanish word meaning “crash,” estampida, and a French word meaning “feet,” pieds
“How do these words make sense in stampede?”

7. Opening: Returning Reader’s Notes and Gathering Evidence Organizers (5 minutes)
Because your Reader’s Notes and Gathering Evidence Organizers will be so helpful to you, you need to do the very best you can to improve collecting this information as we finish reading A Long Walk to Water
Think one thing you will do to improve your notes and one thing you will do to improve your work on your Gathering Evidence Graphic Organizer

8. Opening Continued… Meet with your White Nile Discussion Partner
Share with your partner your plans on improving your work on your Reader’s Notes and Gathering Evidence Organizers
Review each others answers and offer suggestions and support when needed
Make corrections as you see fit

9. WORK TIME: REVIEW CHAPTERS 11-13: ADDING TO OUR ANCHOR CHART (5 MINUTES)
Review your Readers Notes with your partner (White Nile Partner)
Compare your gist notes and decide what you would add to the Salva/Nya anchor chart
Share the Salva/Nya anchor chart to check your Reader’s Notes
Add to the chart and/or Readers Notes information that is shared that you don’t have written down

10. WORK TIME CONTINUED…
Continue working with your partner to update your Survival Anchor Chart
Contribute ideas for the Survival anchor chart and record your answers
Update Survival anchor chart
Review your Readers Dictionary
Compare your definitions with the answer key

11. Distribute the Evidence-Based Constructed Response sheet
WORK TIME: MODELING AND INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: WRITING A SHORT EVIDENCE-BASED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE (25 MINUTES)
Distribute the Evidence-Based Constructed Response sheet
“How does persistence help Salva survive in a difficult environment?”
“What is persistence?
It means “the ability to stick with something even if it is very hard”
Example: “When you want something from you parents, do you ask and ask and ask? If so, you are being persistent!”

12. WORK TIME: MODELNG (5 MINUTES)
I will briefly model for you how you might write a short constructed response to answer how Salva’s persistence in the face of a challenge helped him survive
I am going to share a handy way for you to use and explain quotes

13. WORK TIME CONTINUED… It is called a Quote Sandwich
The three sections of this sandwich are: context (what is going on in the story at this time), quote from the scene, and explanation (how the quote shows persistence)
Look at the quote with the page number and turn to that page
The word spare, as it is used as an adjective in this context, means: “lean, trim, or short”

14. WORK TIME CONTINUED…
Read the example on the Evidence-Based Constructed Response sheet
Then, using the Quote Sandwich, draw squares around the part of your example that represents the top of the bread, middle, and bottom of the bread of your Quote Sandwich
You should label each of the three levels of your sandwich
Share why you drew the boxes where you did

15. WORK TIME CONTINUED… Here is an example:
[Salva’s persistence is one factor in how he survives in a difficult environment. One place in the text where we see this is when Salva is crossing the desert with a group of refugees. This is a long, difficult crossing that will take at least three days. On the first day, Salva’s only pair of shoes falls apart. He has to decide how to cope with this.] TOP PIECE OF BREAD

16. WORK TIME CONTINUED…
[The author writes, “After only a few minutes, Salva had to kick off the flapping shreds and continue barefoot.” (52)] SANDWICH FILLING
[Salva’s taking off his shoes shows real persistence. Instead of just giving up, he decides to go barefoot to continue his hike across the desert. Because of his persistence, Salva is able to continue and to survive.] BOTTOM PIECE OF BREAD

17. WORK TIME: Partner Practice (10 MINUTES)
Turn to Chapter 11 in A Long Walk to Water
Now that you see what you need to do, please work with your Discussion Appointment by the While Nile to find a section and quote from Chapter 11, 12, or 13 that you can use to show Salva’s persistence

18. WORK TIME CONTINUED…
Be sure you are selecting a quote that shows persistence
At this point, you are just brainstorming
You will write your response on your own in a few minutes
Share your section and quote with the class

19. WORK TIME: INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (10 MINUTES)
Use the Evidence-Based Constructed Response sheet to write your answer to the question about Salva’s persistence
You should give a quote followed by the page where it is found in the book and explain how it shows Salva’s persistence in the face of a challenge
Ask yourself how the quote shows persistence or what you think persistence is and how a person might show it

20. It is fine if you didn’t finish or you felt challenged
CLOSING AND ASSESSMENT: SELF-ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCE-BASED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE (5 MINUTES)
You have just begun to practice a type of writing you will work with a lot more in future lessons
It is fine if you didn’t finish or you felt challenged
The goal today was just to get started with this skill, and I want you to think about how that went

21. CLOSING AND ASSESSMENT CONTINUED…
The writing you have been doing is a way for you to show me that you are working toward one of our learning targets:
‘I can select a quote from A Long Walk to Water and explain how it illustrates a factor in how Nya and/or Salva survive.’
I’d like for you to look at what you have written and be sure that it matches the learning target

22. CLOSING AND ASSESSMENT CONTINUED…
Read the learning target:
‘I can select a quote from A Long Walk to Water and explain how it illustrates a factor in how Nya and/or Salva survive.’
Reread your writing and answer these questions:
“What is one thing you did well?” Star it
“What is one thing you need in your answer to meet this target?” Circle it
Share

23. CLOSING AND ASSESSMENT CONTINUED…
Do you need a quote?
Do you need to explain how the quote shows persistence?
Revise your evidence-based constructed responses to be turned in for formative assessment data (homework if not finished)
Distribute Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer, Chapters and Reader’s Notes, Chapters 14 and 15.

24. Evidence-Based Constructed Response (if not finished)
HOMEWORK
Complete the Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer (Chapters 11-13)
Read Chapters 14–15 and complete Reader’s Notes (both parts) for these new chapters
Evidence-Based Constructed Response (if not finished)