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Unit 3
Choices and Consequences
Unit Overview
Visual Prompt: Both sports and academics are valued by society, but sports seem to get more attention. Should academic achievement be as important as or more important than athletic achievement? Can sports participation help prepare you for future success?
Unit Overview
How do the choices you make now shape your future? In this unit, you will explore how decisions can determine your character and values. You
will read an excerpt from a novel that focuses on one young man’s split-second decisions during
a terrifying event. You will continue reflecting on choices by reading informational texts about a world leader whose many decisions had far-reaching consequences.
Introduce Unit 3
Read aloud the Unit Overview, asking students to mark the text by highlighting words and phrases that help them predict what the unit
will be about. Share responses in partner, small-group, or whole-class discussion. Have students look at the photograph and respond to the visual prompt. You may want to have students think-pair-share to write a short response or discuss their responses as a class.
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Build or activate background knowledge in students about choices and consequences by asking students to tell the class about a choice they had to make. If students can’t think of anything, they can make one up, such as choosing between two items at lunch. Model the activity first by briefly describing a choice you made. Provide students with a few moments to brainstorm, and then call on student volunteers to share their choices aloud. Provide specific feedback to each student volunteer after they share their choice, such as: I like the way you described the options you had, and the choice you made. Every choice has a consequence, which is what happens because of the choice. What were the consequences of your choice?
Vocabulary Development
To help reinforce the vocabulary and language for this lesson, enlist your students help to create an interactive Word Wall. Provide students with index cards and markers to write each word on one card and its definition on another. Have students tack the words in a row on a bulletin board. Beneath each word, have them tack the correct definition. Periodically throughout the lesson, take either the words or the definitions off of the bulletin board. Have students put them back in the correct location.
Oral Fluency Strategies
Cloze reading activities help build fluency in students and can engage
even the most reluctant of readers. Try using oral cloze reading by having students follow along and chorally read the key words you intentionally omit. If students are working in pairs, have them do a partner cloze activity, and have each student take turns playing the part of the reader. You may wish to model cloze activities the first time you try them in your classroom.
142 SpringBoard® English Language Development Grade 7
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