Curriculum / ELA / 5th Grade / Unit 5: Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer / Lesson 1
ELA
Unit 5
5th Grade
Lesson 1 of 31
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Analyze the role Delphine plays in the family.
Book: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia — "Cassius Clay Clouds" and "Golden Gate Bridge"
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What role does Delphine play in the family? Why?
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
Describe Delphine. How does she compare with her sisters?
On page 2, Delphine keeps saying that she wants to avoid making a "grand Negro spectacle." What does she mean by this? What does it show about the relationship between Black people and white people at the time? What other description does the author include to highlight the relationship between Black people and white people during the time period?
Describe the girls' airplane ride. What figurative language does the author include to show how the girls are feeling about the ride and the trip?
Based on the author’s description, who is Cecile? How do the other characters view her? Why?
What point of view is the story told from? How does the point of view influence what the reader "sees" and "hears"?
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Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
spectacle
n.
(p. 2)
a very impressive show
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RL.5.3 — Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.5.4 — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.5.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
RF.5.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
RF.5.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RL.5.1 — Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL.5.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
RL.5.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4—5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
SL.5.1 — Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
W.5.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Lesson 2
RL.5.3
Explain why the chapter is titled "Secret Agent Mother" and if the title adequately describes the way the girls perceived Cecile.
Analyze how Delphine’s point of view influences the way events are described and what Delphine wants a reader to understand about her sisters and Cecile.
RL.5.3 RL.5.6
Narrative Writing
Rewrite a key scene from One Crazy Summer from another character’s point of view.
RL.5.6 W.5.3
Explain what the girls learn about Cecile in this chapter and how they each respond.
Summarize what the Black Panthers believed based on evidence from the Ten Point Platform.
RI.5.3
Debate if Cecile’s actions show that she truly cares for Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern and she just doesn’t know how to show it.
L.5.3.b RL.5.3
Compare and contrast the girls’ attitudes of the revolution with those of the people who work and attend the center.
L.5.3.b RL.5.2 RL.5.3
L.5.1.a L.5.1.c L.5.1.d RL.5.6 W.5.3
Opinion Writing – 4 days
Write your own Ten-Point program addressing issues in your community and defend which points are most important and why.
L.5.1.c SL.5.1 SL.5.2 W.5.1 W.5.1.a W.5.1.b W.5.1.c
Determine a theme of a poem and explain how the theme is conveyed through the details and stanzas.
RL.5.2 RL.5.5
Compare and contrast Cecile and Delphine’s point of view on the significance of names.
Compare and contrast what Cecile, Delphine, the Anktons, Fern, and Vonetta know and understand and how it influences the way they view Miss Patty Cake.
Defend if Delphine should have been allowed to read the Black Panther paper and why.
RI.5.3 W.5.1
Defend if Cecile is or is not growing more attached to Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern.
RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.5
Discussion
Analyze and debate Unit Essential Questions.
RL.5.2 RL.5.3 SL.5.1 SL.5.2
Writing
Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a Unit Essential Question.
W.5.1 W.5.9
Analyze how Sister Mukumbu and Delphine view the Black Panther movement.
RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.5.6 SL.5.1 SL.5.2
Compare and contrast the narrator’s views and understanding of the revolution with Delphine and her sisters’ and explain what Delphine and her sisters could learn from the narrator.
RL.5.2 RL.5.9
Analyze the ways in which the sisters and Cecile are changing.
RL.5.2 RL.5.3
Analyze how the girls respond to Cecile's arrest and what their actions reveal.
L.5.1.a RL.5.6 W.5.3
Determine a theme of a story from details in the text.
RL.5.2
Analyze the role poetry plays in the movement, by analyzing details that support the development of theme.
Write a poem from a character’s point of view by using poetry to develop experiences using effective literary techniques, descriptive details, and clear sequence.
RL.5.5 RL.5.6 W.5.3
Defend if Cecile grew and changed over the course of the summer.
Discussion & Writing
Determine a theme of One Crazy Summer and write a summary that describes how the theme was developed over the course of the text.
RL.5.2 SL.5.1 SL.5.2 W.5.1
RL.5.2 SL.5.1 SL.5.2
Assessment
Narrative Writing – 3 days
Write a continuation of the novel One Crazy Summer.
W.5.3
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