Popular Mechanics By Raymond Carver Lesson Plan Of...

Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan of Questioning Objective The purpose of this lesson is to teach my student to know what they supposed to be learning and why by using questioning strategies while reading. Students learn more effectively when they know what they are presumed to be looking for in the reading assignments. In addition, the student will develop the ability to follow a plot, to make inferences on the action of the characters, and to draw conclusions on the text’s events. Behavior Standards and Expectations Goal: to elicit 100% of active student engagement Specific expectations: †¢ Conversation about questioning †¢ Build confidence in reading skills †¢ Time to share the student’s ideas about what is questioning Anticipatory Set†¦show more content†¦Then he went out to the living room. She stood in the doorway of the little kitchen, holding the baby. I want the baby, he said. Are you crazy? No, but I want the baby. I’ll get someone to come for his things. You’re not touching this baby, she said. The baby had begun to cry and she uncovered the blanket from around his head. Oh, oh, she said, looking at the baby. He moved toward her. For God’s sake! she said. She took a step back into the kitchen. I want the baby. Get out of here! She turned and tried to hold the baby over in a corner behind the stove. But he came up. He reached across the stove and tightened his hands on the baby. Let go of him, he said. Get away, get away! she cried. The baby was red-faced and screaming. In the scuffle, they knocked down a flowerpot that hung behind the stove. He crowded her into the wall then, trying to break her grip. He held onto the baby and pushed with all his weight. Let go of him, he said. Don’t, she said. You’re hurting the baby, she said. I’m not hurting the baby, he said. The kitchen window gave no light. In the near dark he worked on her fisted fingers with one hand and with the other hand he gripped the screaming baby up under an arm near the shoulder. She felt her fingers being forced open. She felt the baby going from her. No! she screamed just as her hands came loose. She would have it, this baby. She grabbed for the baby’s other arm. She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back. But