About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Ask and answer questions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand informational text
• Analyze the author's purpose
• Understand how to read pronunciations in parentheses
• Identify and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Historic Peacemakers (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL chart, author's purpose, content vocabulary worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: apartheid, boycott, caste, concessions, congregation, discrimination, integrated, leprosy, mediation, prejudice, sari, segregated