Module Lessons / Grade 4: Module 1: Unit 2: Lesson 3

What Happens and How Does Jack Feel About It? Anchor Chart

(Example, for Teacher Reference)

RL.4.1, RL.4.3

Pages / What happens? / How does Jack feel about it? / How do you know? Use evidence from the text to support your answer
73–86 / Walter Dean Myers visits Jack’s school. / Jack is very happy to meet Walter Dean Myers and is inspired by his visit. / He writes, “…all of the blood in my veins was bubbling and all of the thoughts in my head were buzzing and I wanted to keep Mr. Walter Dean Myers at our school forever” and writes, “Thank you a hundred million times for leaving your work and your family and your things-people-have-to-do to come and visit us in our school in our class.”

Model Informative Paragraph

W.4.2

In Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, even though he doesn’t understand poetry at first, the main character, Jack, is inspired to write poetry. Jack was inspired by things that happen in his classroom and you can see this in his poetry. For example, on November 6, he writes a poem about how he likes his poems typed up on blue paper and hung up on the yellow bulletin board. On January 17, he writes a poem about how people write to make pictures with words, but other people think they are poems because of the way they look. Also, on April 4, he writes poetry to thank his teacher for typing up his poem. Another example of Jack being inspired by things in his classroom is the poem he writes on April 17, when his teacher persuades him to write to Walter Dean Myers. Jack shows us that inspiration for writing poetry can come from many different places.

Annotated Model Informative Paragraph

(For Teacher Reference)
W.4.2

In Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, even though he doesn’t understand poetry at first, the main character, Jack, is inspired to write poetry. Jack was inspired by things that happen in his classroom and you can see this in his poetry. For example, on November 6, he writes a poem about how he likes his poems typed up on blue paper and hung up on the yellow bulletin board. On January 17, he writes a poem about how people write to make pictures with words, but other people think they are poems because of the way they look. Also, on April 4, he writes poetry to thank his teacher for typing up his poem. Another example of Jack being inspired by things in his classroom is the poem he writes on April 17, when his teacher persuades him to write to Walter Dean Myers. Jack shows us that inspiration for writing poetry can come from many different places.

Key

Criterion from anchor chart / Where students will find this information in their own work
Red / Introduce the book and the author / What Inspires Poets to Write Poetry? Note-catcher
Green / Contain a focus statement about what inspired Jack / What Inspires Poets to Write Poetry? Note-catcher
Yellow / Describe details from the text and how they show what inspired Jack / What Inspires Poets to Write Poetry? Note-catcher
Green (a different shade) / Provide a concluding sentence that restates the topic / What Inspires Poets to Write Poetry? Note-catcher
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