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Getting the Gist: Steve Jobs Commencement Address (Focus on Paragraphs 6-8, and connecting to Chapter 6) Lesson PlanGetting the Gist: Steve Jobs Commencement Address (Focus on Paragraphs 6-8, and connecting to Chapter 6) Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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6th
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Year
2014
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Getting the Gist: Steve Jobs Commencement Address (Focus on Paragraphs 6-8, and connecting to Chapter 6)

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As part of a unit study of Bud, Not Buddy, readers compare Buddy's list of rules to live by with those that Steve Jobs enumerates in his commencement address to Stanford's 2005 graduating class.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

summarizing, text connections, text-to-text connections, christopher paul curtis, literature, responding to literature, responding to reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide class members with calligraphy magic markers and font models; have them practice several letter forms

Classroom Considerations

  • The sixth session in a 12-lesson unit that uses Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy as a core text
  • Readers continue to use the Odell Education model to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in text. 

Pros

  • The 18-page packet includes a detailed plan, the full text of Jobs' speech, discussion questions, Odell Education reading guide questions, and a link to the Odell site

Cons

  • Some students may need additional scaffolding the shift in focus from the earlier lessons in the unit

Common Core

RI.6.1 RI.6.4

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