Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Introduction (6.7)
 Themes
 Learning about oneself and others
 Life as an outsider
 Skills/Strategies
 Set a Purpose
 Identify Main idea and Details
 Identify Cause and Effect

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 1
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille ,
Chapters 1-2
Today’s Purpose:
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To understand the events in Louis Braille’s life that led to his blindness
Strategy: Identify Cause and Effect
Vocabulary:
 dormitory, stylus, isolated, garret, infection

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 2
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , Chapter
3
Today’s Purpose:
 To discover what the school that Father Palluy visited was like
Strategy: Identify Main Ideas and Details
Vocabulary:
 daunting, cautious, solitary, miraculous, method

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 3
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , Chapter
4
Today’s Purpose:
 To discover what effect music has on Louis – and why
Strategy: Identify Main Ideas and Details
Vocabulary:
 embossing, founder, legible, practical, relief

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 4
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , Chapter
5
Today’s Purpose:
 To learn what impact Valentin Hauy had on Louis
Braille
Strategy: Identify Cause and Effect
Vocabulary:
 code, provisions, intimidated, tribute, embraced

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 5
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , Chapter
6
Today’s Purpose:
 To learn how Louis Braille's system improved the shortcomings of embossing
Strategy: Identify Main Ideas and Details
Vocabulary:
 simplify, demonstration, cell, shortcomings, conventional

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 6
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , Chapter
7
Today’s Purpose:
 To understand why the French government was so resistant to Louis Braille’s new alphabet
Strategy: Identify Cause and Effect
Vocabulary:
 apprentice, authorized, fatigue, transcribe, liberal

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 7
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Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
Today’s Reading:
 Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille , Chapter
8
Today’s Purpose:
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To learn how Louis’s closest friends remembered him-and how he is remembered today
Strategy: Identify Cause and Effect
Vocabulary:
 rebellion, unsanitary, benefactor, modest, adapted

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 8
 Purpose for Reading the Book:
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To understand what makes Louis Braille’s story so inspiring
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Today’s Purpose:
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To understand why Louis Braille’s system of writing was such an important contribution to society

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
Meeting 9
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Today’s Reading:
 Table of Contents
 Index from an informational text
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Today’s Purpose:
 To use a table of contents and an index to locate information for a report
 Strategy: Using Informational Text Features