The Stranger By Chris Van Allsburg

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The StrangerBy Chris Van Allsburg

• Essential Question What is the identity of the
  stranger and how is it related to the seasonal
  change from summer to fall?

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I can

• Draw inferences from a text and refer to details
  and examples in the text when explaining my
  inferences RL.4.1
• Determine the theme of a piece of literature
  RL.4.2
• Use specific details from the story to describe a
  character in depth RL.4.3

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Day One Launching the TextThe Stranger

• Summary In late summer, a farmer hits a man in
  the road with his truck. The speechless stranger
  then spends several weeks on the farm. The
  weather stays warm into autumn, and the leaves
  around the farm remain green. The stranger
  realizes something is wrong. he leaves the farm,
  and the weather returns to normal.
• Genre Fantasy a story that could never really
  happen, describes events that could not really
  happen except in ones imagination.

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Day 1 Read and React

• Preview text. What do you notice about the
  pictures and illustrations?
• Read and React Take 20 minutes to read the text
  closely with your pencil in your hand. Write
  down everything you are thinking on post its
  (questions, reactions, inferences, predictions,
  new learning, new vocab.)
• Zoom in As you read, notice how the pictures
  play an important part in telling the story and
  describing the character.

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Day 1 Think, Pair, Share

1. Describe the setting in your own words (using
   clues from the text).
2. What does it mean when the author writes that
   Farmer Brown was fearing the worst? Use
   evidence from the text.
3. What clues do the pictures give us that the words
   do not? What do you think happened to the leaf
   and the stranger after he blew on the leaf with
   all his might?

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Day Two Gathering Evidence

• An effect is the result of an event or action.
• A cause explains why it happened.
• Clue words such as because, in order to, so, and
  as a result to link causes and effects.
• If these words are missing, readers need to infer
  the cause-and-effect relationships on their own.
  

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Day Two Gathering Evidence

• On your post it notes, jot down
• Clues that could help solve the identity of the
  stranger
• Clues that connect the story to the changing of
  seasons
• One cause/effect relationship
• New vocabulary

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Day Two Text Based Trivia!Winning pods sweet
treat at SSR

• Each correct answer is worth five points.
  Answer on notebook paper. You must include a
  page number to cite your evidence!
• How does the stranger communicate with the
  Baileys without using words?
• How is the change of season at the Baileys farm
  different from the other farms?
• Why does Farmer Bailey say that the weather has
  been peculiar?
• What does the stranger notice about the weather
  and how does he feel?

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Day Three Making MeaningVocab Focus

• Locate these words in the text
• peculiar
• hermit
• hypnotized
• your choice
• Create four vocab quadrants in your reading
  journal and define the words as you read with
  your partner today
• Reread The Stranger with your partner.

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Day Three Vocab Focus

• What did you infer these words to mean?
• peculiar strange
• hypnotized put under a trance, deep sleep
• drab not attractive, dull
• Copy down the vocab into your word study journal

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Day Four Writing About Reading

• Lets read the question together, unpack it, and
  brainstorm some ideas for answers. Find evidence
  in the text.
• Develop a theory about the identity of the
  stranger and use evidence from the story to
  support your thinking.
• Partner up and share your thinking.
• Write your response and then answer the multiple
  choice questions.

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Day Five Closure

• Chris Van Allsburg uses concrete words, phrases,
  and descriptive sensory details to convey
  experiences and events precisely.
• Find an example of concrete words, phrases, or
  descriptive details. Lets add to our class
  anchor chart.
• What from the chart will you use in your own
  narrative today?