This document outlines the lesson plan for Miss Catherine's class. The objectives are to read descriptions of world religions, choose the top 3 to teach, and discuss what fiction is. Students will read the realistic fiction novel "Journey" and discuss the characters, setting, and events in chapter groups. They will create a chart listing characters, what is known about them, and questions to further understand them and the developing story. The purpose is to analyze elements of realistic fiction and build understanding of the characters and world within the story.

1. Monday, January 12, 2015
MISS CATHERINE’S CLASS

2. Today’s Objectives
• Read aloud descriptions of
religions from page 44-45
of My World History
Textbooks
• As a group, choose top 3
religions you would like to
teach to the class…write
on post-it
• What is Fiction?...red
notebooks.

3. 1. Christianity
2. Judaism
3. Islam
4. Hinduism
5. Buddhism
6. Traditional Religions…ex. Religions of Africa, etc.
Discuss with your groups…you have 5 minutes to discuss…
CHOOSE & WRITE DOWN TOP 3
CHOICES…

4. What is
Fiction?
• Great readers know about
the different types of
fiction…and while there are
many different types of
fiction, a writer’s purpose
remains the same—to
entertain readers.

5. Realistic Fiction
• Today, we are going to begin by
starting to read the realistic fiction
novel, Journey by Patricia
MacLachlan which we will
continue to read throughout the
unit…maybe during lunch today.
• Realistic fiction means that the
characters are made up but that
the settings and conflict could
happen in real life.
• When building the world of a story,
readers must ask a lot of
questions.
• Let’s begin reading but as we
read, if you think of questions
about the story which you feel
need to be answered, write them
down in your red notebooks.
• Read page 1 & point out use of
italics…

6. Realistic Fiction (cont’d)
• Read through page 4…
• What characters have we met so
far?
• Grandma, Grandpa, our
narrator, Journey and his
sister, Cat.
• What information did we read that
can tell us about these
characters…what are they like?
• Turn and talk to your partners to
discuss and jot down in your
notebooks.
• Finish chapter 1.
• Turn & Talk to your partner about
these characters, about what you
think is going on with the story and
what you are still wondering.

7. Realistic Fiction (cont’d)
• Read Chap. 2 through page 7…
• There seems to be some problem
…Journey seems to be upset
about a letter he & Cat received
from their mom…I wonder why
she’s gone—let’s jot this down.
• What do we know about this so
far? Turn & talk to your partners
about your thoughts.
• Read through page 10…
• Here I notice that Journey’s
bedroom seems to be at his
grandparents’ house.
• Read till the end of Chap. 3…
• Let’s pause here to create a chart
about our characters…who we
met, what we know and what
questions we have about them.

8. Building the World of the
Story
• Begin by listing the
characters and making a
note of what we know about
them.
• Then ask a question we
might have about each of
them.
• Ex. Why is Journey so
annoyed that Grandpa
takes so many pictures?
• Has anyone created a chart
like this about a book they
are reading at home?
• Maybe you would like to
create a similar chart in
your notebooks about your
independent reading books.