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Cyberlesson adapted for Grade 7 • Goals for class • Benefits of the Cyberlesson • Benefits of The Arrival • Multiple Standards Introduction The Arrival by Shaun Tan You are about to embark on a journey. You will be leaving your home and all that is familiar to you. You will learn what it is like to be a stranger in a strange land. Be prepared to feel many emotions as you explore the sometimes confusing, scary and delightful landscapes. Will you be able to call this place home? Materials & Supplies • • • • • • • Copy of The Arrival Laptop computer for each student Headphones for each student Elmo projector Computer printer Supply of books on Ellis Island and U.S. immigration Film clip on Ellis Island (downloaded onto laptops) Group Roles Students within groups will assign each other roles. Students will take turns with each role, rotating roles daily. The roles are described below: o Page o Discussion o Image Director o Conversationalists Projector You will turn the pages of the book to display using Elmo. Leader You will lead the discussion by initiating the conversation with your ideas, inviting everyone to participate in the conversation. You will stand at the screen and invite volunteers to approach and discuss the projected image. You will be an active participant in the discussion, helping others construct meaning of the text through predictions, connections, questions and inferences. Important Terms (Refer to these terms throughout the Cyberlesson) Reading Strategies • Predict To make a guess about what might happen based on what • • • you’ve read in the text and what you already know about life Connect To make associations between the text and what you know or have experienced Question To ask about what you don’t understand Infer To make a guess about meaning of the text based on what you’ve read in the text and what you already know about life Literary Terms • Setting The time and place of the story • Plot The main, important events of the story • Theme The meaning, or main point or message, of the story Before Reading Use the next slide to record your responses to the following: 1. As a small group, look at the cover projected on the screen using Elmo and record a prediction. 2. Together, look at the next five pages, adjust your original prediction and now record your predictions. 3. Discuss setting and plot. Then record your ideas using the following slide. The Arrival 3. Describe the setting: 1. Look at cover and predict: 4. What are the main plot events so far? 2. Look at several pages & predict: Before Reading The main character in this story has immigrated from his homeland to make a new life in a new land. With the exception of Native Americans, all of our families have immigrated to the United States at some point and many who landed in New York saw the Statue of Liberty and were required to stop at Ellis Island. These places are pictured in The Arrival. Visit the Ellis Island Site* to learn more about this experience. Use the next slide to record notes on what you learned from the Internet site, as well as from the Ellis Island literature, that may help you better understand The Arrival. *www.ellisisland.org Ellis Island List what you learned about Ellis Island. Then share your new knowledge with your group. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ During Reading 1. With your literature group, use the Elmo to read the text projected on the screen to read Chapter One of The Arrival. 2. As you begin reading the text, call to mind what you know so far about the story and your predictions, as well as your background knowledge about immigration, to make sense of the images. 3. Discuss your ideas with others in the group. Using the next slide, record your useful connections, adjust your older predictions and record new predictions. The Arrival “Active Reading” Predictions Questions _____________________ _____________________ ____________________ ____________________ _____________________ _____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Connections _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ The Arrival “Post Discussion” After discussing your predictions, connections and questions with your group, record your new understandings. Be sure to consider what your group members shared when forming your new understandings. ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ During Reading 1. After reading Chapter One, stop and watch a five minute film clip* on Ellis Island on your own. Click on the “Ellis Island” icon on your computer desktop. Use your personal headphone set. 2. Add to your Ellis Island notes sheet what you learned about Ellis Island from the film clip. 3. Now discuss your new understandings about Ellis Island with your group. * Film clip from www.unitedstreaming.com: “Immigration Waves” During Reading Read Chapter Two 1. Assign roles. 2. Print “Active Reading” form to record predictions, connections and questions while reading. 3. Read Chapter Two with your group using Elmo, and record new predictions, connections and questions. 4. Discuss ideas with group and record new ideas on “Post Discussion” form. During Reading Read Chapter Three 1. Assign roles. 2. Print “Active Reading” form to record predictions, connections and questions while reading. 3. Read Chapter Three with your group using Elmo, and record new predictions and connections. 4. Discuss ideas with group and record new ideas on “Post Discussion” form. During Reading Read Chapter Four 1. Assign roles. 2. Print “Active Reading” form to record predictions, connections and questions while reading. 3. Read Chapter Four with your group using Elmo, and record new predictions, connections and questions. 4. Discuss ideas with group and record new ideas on “Post Discussion” form. During Reading Read Chapters Five & Six 1. Assign roles. 2. Print “Active Reading” form to record new predictions, connections and questions while reading. 3. Read Chapters Five and Six with your group using Elmo, and record predictions, connections and questions. 4. Discuss ideas with group and record new ideas on “Post Discussion” form. After Reading Words o The word surreal means dreamlike and fantastical. The word surreal describes many of the images in The Arrival. o With a partner, discuss and record any other words that come to mind after reading The Arrival. o These words can be any part of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives or adverbs o Use the following slide to record your ideas. WORDS on The Arrival Surreal ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ After Reading To infer is to use your knowledge and the text to make meaning. Infer the meaning of The Arrival, recording your ideas on the following slide. Think about: o Images from The Arrival o Predictions o Connections o Notes on Ellis Island o Word list Infer the theme of The Arrival. ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ After Reading “The ABCs of The Arrival” PowerPoint Project Create a PowerPoint slideshow with your literature group following the steps below: 1. From the word list on the following slide, choose four or five words. Divide the words amongst yourselves within your small group. 2. Create one slide for each word. 3. Each slide should define the word and explain its connection to The Arrival. You may add images. 4. Print and use the form on the slide following the word list to develop your initial ideas. 5. Refer to the slide after that for an example of the slide format. Word List Assimilate Bizarre Compassion Degraded Emigrate Familial Grave Humanity Immigrants Journey Kindred Landscape Multicultural Navigate Optimistic Perplexing Quest Reunion Surreal Tangible Universal Vernacular Whimsical Xenophobia Yield Zest “The ABCs of The Arrival” PowerPoint Project Prep Sheet WORD WORD _____________________________ _____________________________ Meaning_________________________ _______________________________ ____________________________ Meaning_________________________ _______________________________ ____________________________ Connection to The Arrival _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ __________________________ Connection to The Arrival _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ __________________________ WORD WORD _____________________________ _____________________________ Meaning_________________________ _______________________________ ____________________________ Meaning_________________________ _______________________________ ____________________________ Connection to The Arrival _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ __________________________ Connection to The Arrival _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ __________________________ is for Assimilate A verb, meaning to be absorbed into customs and ways of a new culture People from many different countries came to the land of The Arrival. These people were assimilated into their new country’s culture by learning the language and customs. Cyberlesson Evaluation 5 3 1 Before Discuss: Worked with group to discuss and generate ideas Connect: Used background knowledge to make useful connections Predict: Made logical predictions Notes: Recorded facts learned from Ellis Island readings Discuss: Worked with little input from group to discuss and generate ideas Connect: Used little background knowledge to make connections Predict: Made some logical predictions Notes: Recorded some facts learned from Ellis Island readings Discuss: Did not work with group to discuss and generate ideas Connect: Did not use background knowledge to make connections Predict: Did not make logical predictions Notes: Did not record facts learned from Ellis Island readings During Discuss: Worked with group to discuss and generate ideas Connect: Used background knowledge to make useful connections Predict: Made logical predictions Discuss: Worked with little input from group to discuss and generate ideas Connect: Used little background knowledge to make connections Predict: Made some logical predictions Discuss: Did not work with group to discuss and generate ideas Connect: Did not use background knowledge to make connections Predict: Did not make logical predictions After Discuss: Worked with group to discuss and generate ideas Infer: Related word meaning to the story; used knowledge and images to construct meaning of text Discuss: Worked with little input from group to discuss and generate ideas Infer: Related some word meaning to the story; used some knowledge and images to construct meaning Discuss: Did not work with group to discuss and generate ideas Infer: did not relate word meaning to the story; did not use knowledge and images to construct meaning of text ABC’s “After Reading” Artifact The ABCs of THE ARRIVAL by Shaun Tan Slideshow created by Noelle Gabe Iolanda Tyler Doug Joe I is for immigrants A person who comes from anther country and travels to live in a foreign country In The Arrival, many immigrants leave their homeland to settle in the new and strange land. J is for journey A traveling from one place to another, usually taking a long time In The Arrival, the man and many others took a long journey to reach the new land. K is for Kindred A group of related individuals In the story, the man left his real family but found people in his new country that became KINDRED to him. M is for multicultural Many different cultures The country in The arrival has a lot of different people from different cultures, making it a multicultural country. P is for perplexing Confusing and full of difficulty The man thought that the little, strange creatures were very perplexing. U is for Universal Present or occurring everywhere In The Arrival, the man needed many things that are universal, like shelter, food and friends. W is for whimsical Imaginative, unreal The father in The Arrival landed in the new country and discovered that everything seemed whimsical: the pets, the flying sale boats, all the mail boxes, the buildings and more. x is for Xenophobia A person fearful of a foreign place, especially of strangers It seemed like there was no xenophobia in the new land, because a lot of people tried to be the man’s friend.