This document provides lesson plans and activities for a unit on migration stories, including independent reading, word studies on "infect" and "motive", a read-aloud discussion of the book "A Family Apart", and an activity comparing and contrasting orphans from the past and present. Students will complete charts to analyze characters' motives, compare views of the frontier, and compare the lives of orphans in the past to their own lives today.

1. UNIT 2- MIGRATION STORIES
Lesson 4: Compare and Contrast

2. INDEPENDENT READING
 Get an SSR book and read for 15 minutes.
 Turn to page 10 and write causes and effects that
you find in your SSR book in the next available
“My Responses” section
 Don’t forget to write the date, title, etc.
 Record your reading on page 33 of your workbook

3. WORD STUDY
Infect
 Infectious, infection
 (verb) to affect with a disease causing organism

4. WORD STUDY
Motive
 Motivation
 (noun) a reason for doing something

5. READ-ALOUD/THINK-ALOUD
 Recap:
 What might have caused Frances Mary to be so
concerned about Mara’s illness?
 What might be the cause of Mike’s suspicious
behavior?
 What were some causes and effects from yesterday’s
reading?
 Strategy: Inferring
 Why do characters do what they do?
 RA/TA: Pages 22-31 of A Family Apart
 Stopping Points:
 Page 28, paragraph 2
 What caused Ma to do what she did?
 Page 30, paragraph 4
 How trustworthy/dependable is Mike?

6. CLASSROOM CONVERSATION
 Whose motives are you wondering
about?
 Charles Loring Brace
 Mike
 Ma
 Motives Chart

7. QUESTIONS ABOUT: A FAMILY APART
 Motives:

8. WHOLE CLASS INSTRUCTION
COMPARE AND CONTRAST

9. COMPARE AND CONTRAST
 Views of the Frontier chart on page 87
Frances Mary Both Mike
 TEXT  TEXT  TEXT

10. ORPHANS THEN AND NOW
 Get a highlighter or a colored pencil
 Turn to page 181 and read “Orphans Then and
Now”
 Turn to page 64 in your workbooks to find the
“Orphans Then and Now” chart

11. COMPARE AND CONTRAST
 Orphans Then and Now
Then Both Now
 30,000  Orphans  Hundreds of
children thousands of
 NYC children
 (all of) the
US

12. INDIVIDUAL/SMALL GROUP WORK
 Turn to page 65 of your workbook to the
“Compare and Contrast” chart
 Complete the chart in small groups
 Use details about the Kelly’s life in NYC and
your life in Syracuse
 After the chart is completed, write a one sentence
statement of contrast
 Use key words such as however or although

13. CLOSURE
Review for the vocabulary quiz
that will be given tomorrow!
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