This document provides information about a 7th grade lesson on literary nonfiction that incorporates technology. It outlines student expectations to understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions from structural elements of literary nonfiction texts. It describes an activity where students will summarize a chapter from "Getting Smart" using an online app to create a flyer, then share it on Twitter to receive peer feedback. Guidelines are provided for writing an accurate, comprehensive, neutral, and independent summary.

1. Grade 7
Technology Infused Lesson

2. Lead4ward Heat Map

3. ELA Hotspot
 7.7 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary
Nonfiction.
 Students understand, make inferences, and draw
conclusions about the varied structural patterns and
features of literary nonfiction and provide evidence
from text to support their understanding.

4. Student Expectation

5. Student Expectations

6. Verb Definitions
 Understand-to grasp the meaning of
 Make inferences- the act of passing from one
proposition, statement, or judgment considered as
true to another whose truth is believed to follow from
that of the former
 Draw conclusions-a final summation
 Provide evidence-to supply or make available

7. Assessment
What is the best summary of this selection?
 A Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played professional basketball for 20 years. He won six Most
Valuable Player awards and was one of the best players in NBA history. He spent a season
coaching a high school team on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The team was
unable to win the state championship, even with Abdul-Jabbar’s help.
 B Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was best known for his career as a professional basketball player.
However, after he retired, he was not sure what he wanted to do. He decided to spend a
season working with a high school basketball team on the Fort Apache Indian
Reservation. A head coach and assistant coaches led the team.
 C Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired from playing professional basketball after a very
successful 20-year career. He later spent a season working with a high school basketball
team on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. He experienced some successes while
coaching during this season, but the team did not win the state championship.
 D Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a successful 20-year career playing professional basketball.
After being retired for eight years, he decided to help coach a high school team on the
Fort Apache Indian Reservation. Abdul-Jabbar both helped the team and learned a great
deal from his experiences. He later decided to pursue a career in coaching.

8. Digital Verbs:
(Summarizing, producing, commenting, posting)

9. CSCOPE Lesson

10. Infused Activity
 Text: Read a chapter from “GETTING SMART” prior to
class
 Use the web app www.smore.com to create a flyer that
summarizes the chapter that you read
 Review the techniques/rubric to be used when
summarizing before you publish your flyer
 Publish your finished flyer to twitter and include
#castleberryisd
 Review posted flyers and add helpful comments and
feedback

11. Techniques to be used while
summarizing a text
 The goal of writing a summary of an article, a single chapter or a
whole book is to offer as accurately as possible the full sense of
the original, but in a more condensed form.
 As you read the article, restate the ideas of the source in different
words and phrases (take notes by paragragh)
As you review your work, make sure that your summary is:
 Comprehensive: You have included in your summary, all of the
author’s major ideas, assertions and findings
 Accurate: in your choice of words and paraphrasing you did not
misrepresent the author’s ideas
 Neutral: you tried to be objective and fair and did not include
your own evaluation or comments
 Independent: a person who has not read the source text can
understand what you have written