ABE'S HONEST WORDS biography digital Intro & Vocab, Google Slides

Purpose: "Abe's Honest Words" biography by Doreen Rappaport: this introductory GOOGLE SLIDE lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. The lesson is perfect for PRESIDENTS‘ DAY! Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment. BL-4.9

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

SLIDES:
• Opening slide
-genre, author photo and short bio.

-genre video

- AUDIOBOOK LINK INCLUDED

• Setting slide
-Location photos
-Time period

• Vibrant Vocab slides(haste, divided, shattered, tension, address, proclamation, opposed, perish)
-bold photos appear without word for inference making
-vocab word 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word
-part of speech
-concise definition

*Additional videos on Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address
• Quizlet practice link

*Grammar and connotation sort

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: Worksheets, word walls, interactive notebooks

*ALSO AVAILABLE IN POWERPOINT

Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.