“Thank You Ma’am” and “The Road Not Taken”
Lesson Support
BEFORE READING
Setting Purpose
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Use the Interest Grabber from pg. 185 of the Annotated Teacher’s Edition
of Prentice Hall Literature, Silver Level. You might even choose to stage
this as an event in your own classroom

The Literature and Your Life box on pg. 184, under Connect Your
Experience, asks students to think about an event when they have been
surprised by someone’s kindness. This could be a lead-in to a discussion
about choices, which is one of the central themes shared by both passages.
Making Predictions/Confirm and Adjust Predictions
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Some of the questions in the margin of the Annotated Teacher’s Edition
deal with predictions and inferences. Use these, in conjunction with a
Think Aloud approach, to encourage students to share predictions.
Predictions can be recorded by the teacher (on an overhead or white
board) or by students on the back of the Response to Character’s Actions
worksheet.
DURING and AFTER READING
The following overhead worksheets are available (for checking comprehension)
during and after reading both passages. These will be useful prior to comparing
and contrasting the author’s purpose, themes, etc.
Prentice Hall Literary Focus and Reading Transparencies Booklet
Reading Strategy
Making Text-to-Self Connections
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Response to Character Actions (Thank You Ma’am) pg. 31
o This is similar to a Double Entry Response.
Monitoring/Checking Comprehension
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Literary Focus- Theme (Thank You Ma’am) pg. 32