Name: Taylor Bell

Lesson Title
Grade Level(s)
Essential Question

Henrys Freedom Box

5th
How do you summarize a nonfiction book?

This should be a how or

why question that helps you
and the students focus on the
big idea(s) of the lesson.

Standard(s)
You will select an ELAGSE
standard and/or
substandard(s) that
complement the essential
question, focus, and purpose
of your lesson.

Assessment
Explain how you will
determine your students
understandings of concepts
from the lesson.

Hook - Attention
Getter
How will quickly gain the
students attention, link to
their prior knowledge, and
engage them in the lesson?

Introduction
How will you introduce the
lesson

ELAGSE5RI2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and

explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the
text.

After reading the book to the students, they will participate in a

class discussion on the main events of the book and then be
asked to put them on paper.

The students will be shown the bag and asked if they can think
and make educated guesses on what the book will be about based
on the appearance of the bag.

The students will be told that the book is from the civil war era
and that is a true story from the Underground Railroad. I will
then ask them to tell me what they already know about
Underground Railroad and slavery.

-I will show the students the bag.

Instructional
-I will ask them to tell me what they think the lesson might be
Strategies and Planned
about based on the appearance of the bag.
Supports
Use a bulleted or numbered
format to communicate the
procedures for the lesson.
Include step-by-step
information about exactly
what you and what the
students will do.

-After they discuss this for a minute, I will tell them the name of
the book and that it is about slavery and they Underground
Railroad.
-I will then ask the students to tell me what they already know
about the Underground Railroad and slavery.
-I will read the book to the students, pulling out the objects in the
bag when they appear in the book.
-Some of the objects are things that they may not have seen
before, so when these occur I will ask them to use context clues
to figure out what they are and we will discuss them.
-After the book has been read, I will take a minute to let the
students process and ask them their thoughts and comments on
the book.
-I will then ask the students to participate in a class discussion
where they will start from the beginning of the book and tell me
the main events throughout.
-After they have discussed the main events, I will give the
students a notecard.
-On this notecard I will ask them to write their names and
list the objects that correlate with the main events that we just
discussed.
-After the cards are collected, I will then have them raise their
hands and tell me again what the main events were.

Closure/Wrap Up
How will you close the lesson
in 1-2 minutes? This should
include a brief review and
connection back to your
essential question. Quick
summary of the lesson with
students.

After the students finish their discussion on the main events and
finish with their notecards, we will then as a class go over what
they wrote down and list the main events once again.

Instructional Supports -The book, Henrys Freedom Box

-The bag
Resources and
-Notecards
Materials Used to
Engage Students in
Learning
Be specific in listing the
resources and supplies needed
to understand what you and
the students will be doing.