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Building Background Knowledge: What IS the Omnivore’s Dilemma Anyway? Lesson PlanBuilding Background Knowledge: What IS the Omnivore’s Dilemma Anyway? Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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8th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
45 mins
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Year
2014
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Building Background Knowledge: What IS the Omnivore’s Dilemma Anyway?

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What's the best thing on the menu? Scholars enter the room, complete a gallery walk of menus to choose a food to pretend to order, and then discuss how they made the decision. Next, they read The Omnivore's Dilemma and relate their gallery walk activity to the gist of the text by answering text-dependent questions.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

context clues, word meanings, group discussions, reading, responding to reading, informational texts

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Incorporate science standards with types of consumers

Classroom Considerations

  • First lesson of 15 in the Grade 8 ELA Module 4, Unit 1 series
  • Requires completing a Specials Board for the Gallery Walk 
  • Each student needs 10 sticky notes 

Pros

  • Includes answers to text-dependent questions
  • Offers suggestions to help struggling readers

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.8.1 RI.8.2 RI.8.10

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