Comprehension Instructional Sequence Module Overview High School – Language Arts – “The Interlopers” (Saki) PLANN “PLANNING GOVERNS INSTRUCTION” PURPOSE: This professional development provides: o A sequence of instruction that supports deeper engagement with text. Opportunities to use the Comprehension Instructional Sequence as a reader. o A debriefing session for analyzing the Comprehension Instructional Sequence as a teacher. o Practice in planning for the use of this instructional sequence. o A model of how to differentiate instruction planned from a teacher’s edition. OBJECTIVES: Professional Development Objectives: o To demonstrate a dynamic instructional process for deeper text comprehension: Model an example lesson for teachers/participants to learn how to use the fourstep comprehension instructional process described in the flowchart , Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Instructional Sequence. o Provide practice opportunities for teachers/participants to use the comprehension instructional process. Example Lesson Objectives: o Students will process deeply and comprehend the information in their textbook through reading and rereading, generating questions and answers based on the text, and participating in extended text discussion. o Students will identify and explain types of literary conflicts and will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text. PREPARATION: Write all pre-determined questions to guide critical thinking on charts or boards prior to the lesson in order to maintain focus and pace of discussions. MATERIALS: Handouts o Flowchart: Comprehension Instructional Sequence o Example Lessons: Model Lesson handouts: Expository text: “The Interlopers” by Saki (9th grade anthologies) Essential Question Writing Handout (Steps 1, 2 and 4) Directed Note-taking Handout (Step 2) Question Generation Poster (Step 3) - optional Display Materials: The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 1 o Words for Vocabulary Word Wall: may differ from next words. o Words introduced in article: precipitous (para. 2); - Very Steep acquiesce(d) (para.2) ; - agreed/submitted consent poach(ing) (para. 2); - trespassing to hunt/steal game affrays (para. 2); - public fight scourge(d) (para. 2); - to whip/lash interloper (title, para. 12 & 21)- trespasser/intruder o Question Generation Posters for Wall Supplies: o Sticky notes o Chart Paper o Markers INTRODUCTION: Purpose Provide an overview of the Comprehension Instructional Sequence to enable participants to see the big picture for the entire day. 1. Comprehension Instructional Sequence flowchart 2. Participants read the Comprehension Instructional Sequence Example Lesson INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS: Purpose: To teach and guide students/ participants to think more deeply as they read text by using a four-step process. Step 1/Day 1: Modeling Reading to Build Comprehension: Purpose: To bring world relevance to text reading, establish a purpose for reading, model fluent reading, provide opportunities for students to become interactive with the text, and think critically about information in the text. Tasks: Teacher instructs from an essential question(s), reads aloud to students while students code text, students read the text and participate in directed note-taking. A. (Activating Strategy) Set the purpose for reading: Teach from an essential question to bring world relevance to text reading: Topic/HookQuestion (Before reading): Based on your perspective, how much control do we have over conflicts we might encounter in life? o COMPLETE control The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 2 o SOME control o NO control Optional Point for consideration: Narrowing the Hook: Now let’s add one more issue to this question about control. Let’s focus on conflict as we do: How much control do we have over CONFLICTS we encounter? Text-focused Lesson Essential Question: As we read this section of text, think about this question: How much control do characters have over conflicts they encounter? This aligns with the following benchmarks: LA.1112.1.7.2 LA.1112.1.7.3 LA.1112.2.1.2 The student will analyze the author’s purpose and/or perspective in a variety of text and understand how they affect meaning; The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details and facts; The student will analyze and compare a variety of traditional, classical, and contemporary literary works, and identify the literary elements of each (e.g., setting, plot, characterization, conflict); B. WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING #1 - PREDICTIVE RESPONSE Ask participants to write their first response to the Essential Question. C. (Vocabulary) Teacher provides vocabulary instruction. Context clues, background knowledge, word parts, use of topic sentences D. (Teaching Strategies) Teacher reads the text aloud to the students for 5 minutes. Read the first paragraphs of the text, “The Interlopers.” Teacher explicitly models how to mark text through these first two paragraphs. As students listen and follow along in their text, they may ask questions as the teacher thinks aloud through the process and marks the text. Teacher then continues to read aloud the rest of the article and requires students to mark/code their text as follows: *M– a character has MUCH control over a conflict. *S – a character has SOME control over a conflict. *N – a character has NO control over a conflict. Teacher should pause at planned places to facilitate small group discussion of text coding for previous paragraphs. Note: For students who need additional support, it may be necessary to explicitly demonstrate how to mark the text. E. Discuss coding with partners and share questions they had while listening. The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 3 F. In small groups, have students compare and discuss differences in their text coding. When needed, provide instruction in vocabulary used in the text. Instruct students to support suggested answers from the text; students should not guess. As they work in small groups, strategically pair students who cannot read the text efficiently. G. If the selected text permits, assign each table a picture or chart from the text and ask them to discuss its meaning and significance. Instruct students to support suggested answers from the text; students should not guess. Step 2/Day 2: Rereading and Directed Note-taking Students read the same text, “The Interlopers” by Saki and engage in directed note-taking: A. Before reading, present a guiding question to direct students’ thinking while they read and take notes. Notes are intended to assist students in answering the LEQ. Guiding Question: Which conflicts do characters encounter, and how do these characters respond to the conflicts they encounter? B. Using the Directed Note-Taking Handout, have students read independently, in pairs, or in small groups. Throughout this time, the teacher can scaffold a small group of students who cannot read the text efficiently to support their text reading and notetaking. Before starting to take notes, have students fold under the columns so they will not think they need to check/x anything as they take notes. C. After students finish their note-taking: o Have students compare notes with classmates (in pairs or in small groups) o Have student partners or student groups identify the different types/patterns of conflict by placing a star next to a note that signifies one type of conflict pattern. o Ask students how many different types of conflicts they were able to recognize in the text. Have students identify and describe the different types of conflict. o Following the Directed Note-Taking discussion, lead students in a follow-up discussion. The teacher can use the Literary Conflict Poster to guide students in identifying the different types of literary conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society). The teacher records text information or phrases that students have identified in common from their notes during discussions. D. WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING #2 Ask participants to write their second response to the Essential Question (bottom area of handout) based upon what they just read and text coded. The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 4 Step 3/Day 3: Rereading and Question Generation to Deepen Comprehension: Purpose: To provide students with a demonstration of question generation and the opportunity for them to interact with the text by generating questions to further deepen their comprehension. (Teaching Strategy) Tasks: Teacher models the generation of a complex question based on a section of text, relating to a broad perspective or issue. Students record the questions, and then students re-read the text to generate their own questions. (Use Question Generation Poster/Handout) A. Model re-reading a portion of the text (paragraph 12 of “The Interlopers” by Saki) and generate a complex/higher-order thinking question based on a section of the text, but not necessarily answered directly by the text and probably based on a broader perspective/more complex ideas or issues in the text. I wonder: Who are the actual interlopers, and what is the intrusion? Display the question. Table discussion and share out. B. Students review/scan the same text and use their recorded notes to generate “I wonder” questions based yet unanswered from their first text reading. (Optional: Students record their questions on their Student Question Generation paper as they work in pairs or small groups. Students who have difficulty reading the text efficiently may need partner support within a small group in order to generate questions.) Meanwhile, the teacher roams the room, listening to the quality of student thinking as a means of formative assessment. Students focus just on question generation and will have subsequent opportunities to generate their answers. C. Display the questions on the Question Generation Poster. (Categories: Man vs. Man; Man vs. Self; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society) Note: For students who need additional support, it may be necessary to explicitly demonstrate question generation individually or in small groups. D. Using the questions, the students review/scan the same text (pages) and use their recorded notes to generate their own answers. Students record their questions on chart paper or sticky notes as they work in pairs, triads or small groups. To conclude question generation, the teacher: has students share their questions with the whole class to identify which questions they have in common, and which questions are most relevant or significant to their learning records/posts common and relevant/significant questions on the Question Generation Poster for future use in: o extended text discussion o seeking answers in text-reading throughout the remainder of the chapter/unit The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 5 o focusing on unanswered questions in collaborative inquiry. The teacher can post student questions and classify them by categories established during the discussion to reinforce the skills of sourcing and corroboration as students search, locate, and validate answers to some of the questions throughout the remainder of the unit. Step 4/Day 4: Using Text-Based Essential Questions to Facilitate Student Thinking While Reading. Purpose: To provide opportunities for students to interact with the text and with their peers to facilitate complex thinking and deep comprehension of text. (Teaching Strategy) Task: Teacher reviews the text-based essential question. A. Revise the essential question to align with FCAT Item Specifications. Questions from the textbook may be adapted to align with the specifications. B. Post the essential question in the classroom: How much control do these characters have over conflicts they encounter? Use information from text to justify your answer. C. Students can complete a graphic organizer developed for the lesson to help them answer the LEQ. Students discuss answers, review/revise answers to essential question based on discussion. D. Demonstrate how the LEQ might look in an FCAT multiple choice format. Direct students to use information from their completed notes to help them answer the essential question. Direct students to their Directed Note-Taking Handout and graphic organizer as tools for responding to the essential question. E. Students share their answers with a partner or in small groups. F. As part of whole class discussion, record student responses to the essential question in multiple choice format. (See Sample Responses in box below) Teachers record responses below the essential question, using: The most relevant word, phrase, or sentence for the correct answer A variety of plausible words, phrases, or sentences as distracters The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 6 Sample Response #1 According to the text, which type of conflict is the most significant to the outcome of the human characters? a. Man-versus-nature because the fallen tree and approaching wolves are life-threatening. b. Man-versus-man because their hatred for each other drives both of them to a terrible end. c. Man-versus-society because the court ruling over the land dispute doesn’t end the conflict between neighboring families. d. Man-versus-self because Ulrich’s inner conflict finally leads him to make the first move in ending the war and making peace with his neighbor. SAMPLE RESPONSE 2 What impact does this conflict have? The man-versus-nature conflict diminishes the characters’ possibility of survival. The man-versus-man conflict causes hostility across generations. The man-versus-society conflict causes the man versus man conflict to intensify. The man-versus-self conflict challenges Ulrich to finally reconsider this view of Georg and to be the first to reach out to him, decreasing the man versus man conflict. A. B. C. D. CLOSURE: Have students draft a written summary explanation of: o their original answer to the essential question o their revised response after the class discussion OR EXTENDED WRITING: Task: Teacher posts text-based prompts and students draft written responses. Purpose: To provide opportunities for students to write as a means of learning in order to expand, refine, and deepen their understanding of content area information and concepts. Writing Prompts (examples): What one word would you use to describe the men’s mental state when the final word of the story is spoken? Justify your reasoning using information from the text. Using RAFT, have the students select from several choices for role, audience, format and topic to summarize their learning from the article. The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 7 Next Generation Sunshine State Standards: The Interlopers LA.910.1.6.1 LA.1112.1.6.1 The student will use new vocabulary that is introduced and taught directly. LA.910.1.6.2 LA.1112.1.6.2 The student will listen to, read and discuss familiar and conceptually challenging text. LA.910.1.6.3 LA.1112.1.6.3 The student will use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar words. LA.910.1.7.1 LA.1112.1.7.1 The student will use background knowledge of subject and related content areas, prereading strategies (e.g., previewing, discussing, generating questions), text features, and text structures to make and confirm complex predictions of content, purpose, and organization of a reading selection. LA.910.1.7.3 LA.1112.1.7.3 The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details and facts. LA.910.1.7.4 LA.1112.1.7.4 The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text. LA. 910.1.7.8 LA.1112.1.7.8 The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when selfmonitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, note-making, summarizing, using graphic and semantic organizers, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources. LA.910.2.1.2 LA.1112.2.1.2 The student will analyze and compare …literary elements… (conflict). LA.910.2.2.2 LA.1112.2.2.2 The student will use information from the text to answer questions or to state the main idea or provide relevant details. The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 8 A The Interlopers Saki 1 2 3 In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman's calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy. The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner's territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest. The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way; as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this windscourged winter night Ulrich had banded together his foresters to watch the dark forest, not in quest of four-footed quarry, but to keep a look-out for the prowling thieves whom he suspected of being afoot from across the land boundary. The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things to-night, and there was movement and unrest among the creatures that were wont to sleep through the dark hours. Assuredly there was a disturbing element in the forest, and Ulrich could guess the quarter from whence it came. He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the branches for sight and sound of the marauders. If only on this wild night, in this dark, lone spot, he might come across Georg Znaeym, man to man, with none to witness-that was the wish that was uppermost in his thoughts. And as he stepped round the trunk of a huge beech he came face to face with the man he sought. The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 9 4 BB 5 6 The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind. The chance had come to give full play to the passions of a lifetime. But a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilisation cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbour in cold blood and without word spoken, except for an offence against his hearth and honour. And before the moment of hesitation had given way to action a deed of Nature's own violence overwhelmed them both. A fierce shriek of the storm had been answered by a splitting crash over their heads, and ere they could leap aside, a mass of falling beech tree had thundered down on them. Ulrich von Gradwitz found himself stretched on the ground, one arm numb beneath him and the other held almost as helplessly in a tight tangle of forked branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the fallen mass. His heavy shooting-boots had saved his feet from being crushed to pieces, but if his fractures were not as serious as they might have been, at least it was evident that he could not move from his present position till someone came to release him. The descending twig had slashed the skin of his face, and he had to wink away some drops of blood from his eyelashes before he could take in a general view of the disaster. At his side, so near that under ordinary circumstances he could almost have touched him, lay Georg Znaeym, alive and struggling, but obviously as helplessly pinioned down as himself. All round them lay a thick- strewn wreckage of splintered branches and broken twigs. Relief at being alive and exasperation at his captive plight brought a strange medley of pious thank-offerings and sharp curses to Ulrich's lips. Georg, who was early blinded with the blood which trickled across his eyes, stopped his struggling for a moment to listen, and then gave a short, snarling laugh. "So you're not killed, as you ought to be, but you're caught, anyway," he cried; "caught fast. Ho, what a jest, Ulrich von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest. There's real justice for you!" And he laughed again, mockingly and savagely. 7 8 9 10 "I'm caught in my own forest-land," retorted Ulrich. "When my men come to release us you will wish, perhaps, that you were in a better plight than caught poaching on a neighbour's land, shame on you." Georg was silent for a moment; then he answered quietly: "Are you sure that your men will find much to release? I have men, too, in the forest to-night, close behind me, and THEY will be here first and do the releasing. When they drag me out from under these damned branches it won't need much clumsiness on their part to roll this mass of trunk right over on the top of you. Your men will find you dead under a fallen beech tree. For form's sake I shall send my condolences to your family." The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 10 11 12 13 14 15 "It is a useful hint," said Ulrich fiercely. "My men had orders to follow in ten minutes time, seven of which must have gone by already, and when they get me out--I will remember the hint. Only as you will have met your death poaching on my lands I don't think I can decently send any message of condolence to your family." "Good," snarled Georg, "good. We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us. Death and damnation to you, Ulrich von Gradwitz." "The same to you, Georg Znaeym, forest-thief, game-snatcher." Both men spoke with the bitterness of possible defeat before them, for each knew that it might be long before his men would seek him out or find him; it was a bare matter of chance which party would arrive first on the scene. Both had now given up the useless struggle to free themselves from the mass of wood that held them down; Ulrich limited his endeavours to an effort to bring his one partially free arm near enough to his outer coat-pocket to draw out his wine-flask. Even when he had accomplished that operation it was long before he could manage the unscrewing of the stopper or get any of the liquid down his throat. But what a Heaven-sent draught it seemed! It was an open winter, and little snow had fallen as yet, hence the captives suffered less from the cold than might have been the case at that season of the year; nevertheless, the wine was warming and reviving to the wounded man, and he looked across with something like a throb of pity to where his enemy lay, just keeping the groans of pain and weariness from crossing his lips. 16 "Could you reach this flask if I threw it over to you?" asked Ulrich suddenly; "there is good wine in it, and one may as well be as comfortable as one can. Let us drink, even if to-night one of us dies." 17 "No, I can scarcely see anything; there is so much blood caked round my eyes," said Georg, "and in any case I don't drink wine with an enemy." 18 19 Ulrich was silent for a few minutes, and lay listening to the weary screeching of the wind. An idea was slowly forming and growing in his brain, an idea that gained strength every time that he looked across at the man who was fighting so grimly against pain and exhaustion. In the pain and languor that Ulrich himself was feeling the old fierce hatred seemed to be dying down. "Neighbour," he said presently, "do as you please if your men come first. It was a fair compact. But as for me, I've changed my mind. If my men are the first to come you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest. We have quarreled like devils all our lives over this stupid strip of forest, where the trees can't even stand upright in a breath of wind. Lying here to-night thinking I've come to think we've been rather fools; there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute. Neighbour, if you will help me to bury the old quarrel I--I will ask you to be my friend." The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 11 20 21 21 cont. 22 23 Georg Znaeym was silent for so long that Ulrich thought, perhaps, he had fainted with the pain of his injuries. Then he spoke slowly and in jerks. "How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the market-square together. No one living can remember seeing a Znaeym and a von Gradwitz talking to one another in friendship. And what peace there would be among the forester folk if we ended our feud to-night. And if we choose to make peace among our people there is none other to interfere, no interlopers from outside . . . You would come and keep the Sylvester night beneath my roof, and I would come and feast on some high day at your castle . . . I would never fire a shot on your land, save when you invited me as a guest; and you should come and shoot with me down in the marshes where the wildfowl are. In all the countryside there are none that could hinder if we willed to make peace. I never thought to have wanted to do other than hate you all my life, but I think I have changed my mind about things too, this last half-hour. And you offered me your wineflask . . . Ulrich von Gradwitz, I will be your friend." For a space both men were silent, turning over in their minds the wonderful changes that this dramatic reconciliation would bring about. In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree- trunks, they lay and waited for the help that would now bring release and succour to both parties. And each prayed a private prayer that his men might be the first to arrive, so that he might be the first to show honourable attention to the enemy that had become a friend. Presently, as the wind dropped for a moment, Ulrich broke silence. 24 "Let's shout for help," he said; he said; "in this lull our voices may carry a little way." 25 "They won't carry far through the trees and undergrowth," said Georg, "but we can try. Together, then." 26 The two raised their voices in a prolonged hunting call. 27 "Together again," said Ulrich a few minutes later, after listening in vain for an answering halloo. "I heard nothing but the pestilential wind," said Georg hoarsely. 28 29 There was silence again for some minutes, and then Ulrich gave a joyful cry. 30 "I can see figures coming through the wood. They are following in the way I came down the hillside." 31 Both men raised their voices in as loud a shout as they could muster. The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 12 32 "They hear us! They've stopped. Now they see us. They're running down the hill towards us," cried Ulrich. 33 "How many of them are there?" asked Georg. 34 "I can't see distinctly," said Ulrich; "nine or ten," 35 "Then they are yours," said Georg; "I had only seven out with me." 36 "They are making all the speed they can, brave lads," said Ulrich gladly. 37 "Are they your men?" asked Georg. "Are they your men?" he repeated impatiently as Ulrich did not answer. 38 "No," said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear. 39 "Who are they?" asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. 40 "Wolves." C The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 13 PREDICTIVE QUESTION – Prior to reading passage and discussion: How much control we have over conflicts we encounter in life? no control much/complete control REVISED RESPONSE (after reading and coding passage) According to the text, how much control do characters have over conflicts they encounter? EXTENDED WRITING: The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 14 What word would you use to describe why the men’s mental state when the final word of the story is spoken? Justify your reasoning using information from the text. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 15 Directions: Record notes containing the most important information relevant to the guiding question. The Interlopers by Saki Before taking notes, fold under this section along this line as students do not need to do any work with these 4 columns until after taking notes. Guiding Question: What conflicts do characters encounter, and how do characters respond to those conflicts? Character’s Reaction – 1 Man in rugged mtns. in winter, alone arrogant 1 1 Was hunting another man Predatory Vicious 1 2 Ulrich had inherited land which was won in a lawsuit 1 2 Georg Znaeym was current enemy neighbor & he was poaching on this land The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM Nature 1 Society EMOTION or ACTION Ulrich von Gradwitz NOTES Gerog Znaeym Page/Paragraph # Check relevant categories below x x x x x x x x 16 x Character’s Reaction – 17 Nature LA CISM Society EMOTION or ACTION Ulrich von Gradwitz The Interlopers by Saki NOTES Gerog Znaeym Page/Paragraph # Check relevant categories below R.A.F.T. Writing Template Name of Article/Story: The Interlopers Role: Audience: Format: Letter Topic: Writing Assignment: The Interlopers by Saki LA CISM 18