Name : Kofi O. Amoah City : Ottawa Province : Ontario Lesson Plan Title : The Rescue!

Grade: 6 Subject : Language Arts - Suspense Province : Ontario Time needed: 100 mins Vocabulary: Learning Objectives/Outcomes: Students will Identify Elements of Suspense

Curriculum Expectations:
Reading 1.4 - demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex texts by summarizing and explaining important ideas and citing relevant supporting details Reading 1.5 - develop interpretations about texts using stated and implied ideas to support their interpretations Reading 1.6 - extend understanding of texts by connecting, comparing, and contrasting the ideas in them to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them

Materials required: Textbook

Description of Activity: Film Clip Man Falling Down Crevasse Comprehension from Part 1 General Questions (what is suspense, what in a story makes it suspenseful) Story Comprehension Questions (Give me the plot of the story) Question Sheet FULL SENTENCES Focus on: Periods and Capitals (+2 = 1 mark off) Take up Last Question together Connections to Life/world/other stories. Prediction Students work with neighbors to make predictions Share Read Story Individually Make Note of every time they read something they can relate to their own lives. Share this information after. Have Students Complete the Suspense T-Chart for A Boy and a Mountain

Assessment (describe or provide rubric): Questions will be marked and returned to students News Report - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/printouts/30700_rubric.pdf Extended activities: News Report - Students will work in groups of 4 to create a news broadcast telling a dramatized version of the story. They will be presented to the class. Print and websites references: News Report Rubric http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/printouts/30700_rubric.pdf