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Building Background Knowledge: The Dinka and Nuer Tribes Until the Mid-1980s (“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War” Excerpt 1) (Version 1) Lesson PlanBuilding Background Knowledge: The Dinka and Nuer Tribes Until the Mid-1980s (“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War” Excerpt 1) (Version 1) Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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7th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
45 mins
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Differentiated Instruction
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Year
2014
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Building Background Knowledge: The Dinka and Nuer Tribes Until the Mid-1980s (“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War” Excerpt 1) (Version 1)

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Readers consider comparisons between the Dinka and Nuer tribes in South Sudan, making connections between an informational article about Sudanese tribes and the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. They annotate the text to help them track essential ideas and use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

novels, informational texts, text-to-text connections, sudan, tribes, annotation, context clues, close reading, point of view

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Pre-teach the words temporal, mystical, intruders, and adhere to support English learners and struggling readers

Classroom Considerations

  • Serves as installment 10 of 14 consecutive lessons from the Grade 7 ELA Module 1, Unit 1 series
  • Requires access to the anchor chart that students began in lesson two

Pros

  • Provides helpful tips for lesson differentiation
  • Includes thorough teaching notes to make instruction easy

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.7.1 RI.7.2 L.7.4.a

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