Part 4: Lesson Plan: Holes, Standards

Holes by Louis Sachar: Lesson Plan
Grade: Fifth

Standards:

Reading

2.3 Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and assessing evidence that supports those ideas.

2.4 Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge.

3.2 Identify the main problem or conflict of the plot and explain how it is resolved.

Writing

1.2 Create multiple-paragraph expository compositions:

a. Establish a topic, important ideas, or events in sequence or chronological order.

b. Provide details and transitional expressions that link one paragraph to another in a clear line of though.

c. Offer a concluding paragraph that summarized important ideas and details.

2.2 Write responses to literature:

a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work.

b. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge.

c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding.

2.3 Write research reports about important ideas, issues, or events by using the following guidelines:

a. Frame questions that direct the investigation.

b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.

c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.

2.4 Write persuasive letters or compositions:

a. State a clear position in support of a proposal.

b. Support a position with relevant evidence.

c. Follow a simple organizational pattern.

d. Address reader concerns.

Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.1 Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives, and independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunctions to connect ideas.

1.4 Use correct capitalization.

1.5 Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions correctly.

Listening and Speaking

1.1 Ask questions that seek information not already discussed.

1.5 Clarify and support spoken ideas with evidence and examples.

1.6 Engage the audience with appropriate verbal cues, facial expressions, and gestures.

1.8 Analyze media as sources for information, entertainment, persuasion, interpretation of events, and transmission of culture.

2.2 Deliver informative presentations about an important idea, issue, or event by the following means:

a. Frame questions to direct the investigation.

b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.

c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.

2.3 Deliver oral responses to literature:

a. Summarize significant events and details.

b. Articulate an understanding of several ideas or images communicated by the literary work.

c. Use examples or textual evidence from the work to support conclusions.

Nutrition and Physical Activity

1.1 Describe the food groups, including recommended portions to eat from each food group.

1.6 Differentiate between more-nutritious and less-nutritious beverages and snacks.

1.7 Explain the concept of eating in moderation.

1.9 Explain how good health is influenced by healthy eating and being physically active.

1.11 Identify physical, academic, mental, and social benefits of regular physical activity.

4.1 Use communication skills to deal effectively with influences from peers and media regarding food choices and physical activity.

5.1 Use a decision-making process to identify healthy foods for meals and snacks.

5.2 Use a decision-making process to determine activities that increase physical fitness.

7.1 Identify ways to choose healthy snacks based on current research-based guidelines.

8.1 Encourage and promote healthy eating and increased physical activity opportunities at school and in the community.

Growth, Development, and Sexual Health

6.1 Identify steps to achieve and maintain a healthy and accurate body image.

Personal and Community Health

5.1 Use a decision-making process to determine personal choices that promote personal, environmental, and community health.

Measurement and Geometry

1.2 Understand the concept of volume and use the appropriate units in common measuring systems (i.e., cubic centimeter [cm³], cubic meter [m³], cubic inch [in³], cubic yard [yd³]) to compute the volume of rectangular solids.

Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability

1.2 Organize and display single-variable data in appropriate graphs and representations (e.g., histogram, circle graphs) and explain which types of graphs are appropriate for various data sets.

Mathematical Reasoning

2.2 Apply strategies and results from simpler problems to more complex problems.