Teacher: Breonica Carter	Date(s): 3 45-minute blocks	Reading	Grade Level Fourth
OBJECTIVE	PROCEDURES	MATERIALS	EVALUATION
2b DOK 2 The students will analyze texts in order to identify, understand, infer or synthesize information.	Monday Anticipatory Set: The teacher will ask the students if they have ever read any tall tales. Then ask why they think these stories are called tall tales. Discuss this genre of stories with the class and then introduce the story of Paul Bunyan by showing examples of illustrations from the Paul Bunyan: The Giant Lumberjack website with an overhead projector. Guided Practice: The teacher will read Paul Bunyan to the class. The teacher and the students will focus on the events in the story. The students can take notes during the class discussion. The students will be given numbers and asked to write down the event according to the number that they were given. Tuesday Guided Practice and Independent Practice: The teacher will explain to the students what a timeline is and give an example. The teacher will be informing the students that we will be building a “human” timeline. The students will write a sentence using the event of the story they were given. After completion of the sentences, the students will draw illustrations of the scenes in which the event(s) took place. The teacher will divide the students into three groups depending on when their event happened in the story: beginning, middle, or end. The students will decide the sequence of events. When the group is in order, the students will sit in a line in their order.   Wednesday Guided Practice and Independent Practice: The students can share their sentences and illustrations with the class. The students will be allowed to make changes to the order of the students if they believe they are in the wrong order. Once all the students have completed the activity. Each student will attach his or her drawing to the timeline chart hanging on the wall. The students will also number their drawing according to the sequence of the story. Closure: The teacher will review sequential order by reviewing some of the life timelines that were completed by the students. The students will be asked to define sequential order. The students will complete a journal entry of how this activity has helped them.	Overhead Projector Headphones Tape Player Paul Bunyan Butcher Paper Colored Pencils	The students will be assessed by observation through discussions and formally by their timelines and assessment.

Reteach: Students who are having difficulty with the story can first start with a timeline of their life.

Enrichment: Students who have completed all activities will be able to go to the computer and complete an online timeline to put the events in sequential order.

Technology: The students who are not able to read along will be asked to go to the listening center and listen to the audio tape of the story Paul Bunyan.

INTASC: 1,3,4,7,8

Diversity: For the lowering functioning students they will listen to the story and write a summary and place the events they can remember in sequential order.