Curriculum / ELA / 2nd Grade / Unit 6: Solving Mysteries: The Fenway Foul-up (2021) / Lesson 15
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Write a newspaper article detailing what has been happening at Fenway Park by retelling key details and characters’ perspectives on events.
Book: Ballpark Mysteries #1: The Fenway Foul-Up by David A. Kelly
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Imagine that you are a sports reporter following Kate and Mike. Write a newspaper article explaining what has been happening at Fenway Park. Make sure to include details about the events and how different characters respond.
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L.2.6 — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
RL.2.5 — Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
RL.2.6 — Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
W.2.3 — Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.2.1.f — Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
RI.2.5 — Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
RL.2.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2—3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
SL.2.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL.2.2 — Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
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Debate if Mike and Kate have solved the mystery and why by describing how characters respond to major events.
Explain what makes Fenway Park unique by answering questions to demonstrate understanding of key details.
Standards
RI.2.1
Describe three baseball-specific words and why they are important to the game by determining the meaning of words in a story and explaining how they are connected.
RI.2.1RI.2.4
Explain how David A. Kelly starts the story The Fenway Foul-Up and why by describing the overall structure of a story, including how the beginning introduces the story and the aspects of a mystery.
RF.2.4RL.2.3RL.2.5
Describe how Kate and Mike respond to the news that Big D’s bat had been stolen by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
RF.2.4RL.2.3RL.2.6
Explain why the chapter was titled “Sunflower Seeds” by recounting key details in a text and describing the features of a mystery.
L.2.4RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.5
Identify the four different types of sentences and explain when they are used.
L.2.1.f
L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.6W.2.3
Describe Mike and Kate and how their different strengths make them a good team by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
L.2.6RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3
Explain what Kate means by “It’s probably been right in front of us all this time” by describing how characters respond to major events and challenges.
Explain if Kate and Mike are right to suspect Kevin or if they are unfairly jumping to conclusions about him by describing how different characters respond to major events and challenges.
RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.6W.2.3
Explain if Kate and Mike are right to suspect the photographer or if they are unfairly jumping to conclusions about him by describing how different characters respond to major events and challenges.
Explain the significance of the sentence, “Suddenly, the pieces fell into place” by describing how different characters respond to major events.
RF.2.4RL.2.3
Explain why Kate and Mike were MVPs by determining the central message of a story.
RF.2.4RL.2.2
L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.5W.2.3
Describe how David A. Kelly uses elements of mystery to develop the plot of the story by describing the overall structure of a story and how elements of mystery help drive the plot of a story.
RL.2.5SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.3SL.2.6W.2.2
4 days
Brainstorm and write the first chapter of a mystery book that demonstrates an understanding of the story elements in a mystery.
L.2.1.bL.2.1.fL.2.6RL.2.5W.2.3
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