Tracy Chapman Song

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Tracy Chapman Song

• Behind the Wall
• Last Night I heard the screaming
• Loud voices behind the wall
• Another sleepless night for me
• It wont do no good to call
• The police
• Always come late hey
• If they come at all
• Last night I heard the screaming
• Loud voices behind the wall
• Another sleepless night for me
• It wont do no good to call
• The police
• Always come late hey
• If they come at all
• And when they arrive
• They say they cant interfere

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• Last night I heard the screaming
• Then a silence that chilled my soul
• Prayed that I was dreaming
• When I saw the ambulance in the road
• And the policeman said
• Im here to keep the peace
• Will the crowd disperse
• I think we all could use some sleep
• Last night I heard the screaming
• Loud voices behind the wall
• Another sleepless night for me
• It wont do no good to call
• The police
• Always come late hey
• If they come at all

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The Many Faces of Harlem145th Street by
Walter Dean Myers

• Amy Knebel
• Lori Garcia
• Nora Capron

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Final Product- 3 Components

• 1. Mobile Project
• 2. Final Paper
• 3. Mobile Presentation

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Product Goals

• -To create character webs as a means to analyze
  the traits of characters in the story.
• -To produce a mobile that describes one of the
  characters in the story using new vocabulary
  words.
• -To produce a final paper describing character
  mobiles.
• -For students to achieve a sense of
  accomplishment after reading a chapter book.
• -To teach students compare and contrast skills by
  analyzing the different themes and characters
  within the novel.
• -To improve students ability to make predictions
  based on information acquired before and after
  reading parts of the novel.

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Process Goals

• -For students to enjoy reading the text.
• -Create an open, comfortable discussion
  environment for students to relate their own
  experiences and give reactions to the events in
  the story.
• -To have students work with classmates in giving
  and receiving constructive criticism on their
  writing.
• -For students to enjoy seeing how the themes in
  145th Street are reflected in contemporary music
  via Tracy Chapman song.
• -To have lively class discussions focused on how
  various themes in 145th Street compare with their
  own lives and experiences.
• -To enjoy working on character webs in small
  groups.
• -To improve vocabulary by using thesauruses to
  construct character webs.

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Above all Else.

• Above all else we want our students to take away
  important literary analysis skills from this
  unit.
• character development
• themes
• connections
• compare/contrast skills
• making predictions
• improving vocabulary

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In Class Activities

• -Listen to Behind the Wall by Tracy Chapman
• -Drawing and writing responses to the themes
  presented in the song
• -Class discussion of responses
• -Making predictions as a class about how the song
  will relates to the story.
• -In class readings of various stories (orally as
  a class and round robin in small groups).
• -Journal responses making predictions

• -Reading quizzes to keep students accountable for
  the material
• -Creating character webs in small groups
• -Analyze a character of their choice from the
  text and portray this character with ten
  descriptive adjectives
• -Searching for pictures- class time to work on
  mobiles
• -Using the thesaurus to aid in completion of
  character webs and mobiles

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Multicultural Aspects

• Book Selection about African American and Latino
  residents of Harlem
• Magazines students will be encouraged to bring
  in magazines that are multicultural
• Discussions We will discuss the culture in
  Harlem as compared to the cultures of various
  students in the class and cultures we have
  previously studied in class

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Help for Struggling Readers

• Vocabulary students will include 10 vocabulary
  words of their choice from the text and include
  definitions they looked up in a dictionary

• Character Webs students will expand their
  vocabularies by finding words to describe the
  character

• Thesaurus Use students will look up 3 synonyms
  for their character descriptions

In Class Reading students will have some of the
stories read to them. All students will have the
opportunity to read aloud but will know a day in
advance so they can prepare
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2005 Young Reader Book Expo
Nora Walter Dean Myers
LoriJane Pauley
AmyTed Koppel