Lesson Topic Short Story Thank You Maam By

Lesson Topic: Short Story- Thank You Ma’am By Langston Hughes- Basic Understanding and Analysis Name of Teacher: Susan Strikovsky Target Class: 11 th Grade Lesson Place in the Curriculum: Lesson Three

• • Table of Contents Introduction Pre-Reading Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTs) – Prediction Predict what will happen in the story Basic Understanding Analysis and Interpretation: Literary Terms Higher Order Thinking Skill - (HOT) -Uncovering Motives • Conclusion

Introduction What is happening in the picture? https: //www. pexels. com/photo/bird-beside-container-on-the-table-1058939/

Pre-Reading Imagine someone stole a computer from your school. What do you think the school should do about it? Imagine you were caught stealing. How would you like to be treated?

Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTs) Prediction Predicting means using the available information to guess what the content or ending of the text will be.

Predict what will happen in the story Read the paragraph from the story. What do you think is going to happen in the story?

Predict what will happen in the story She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder. It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her phone.

Basic Understanding The story “Thank You Ma’am” is about a boy who tries to pick-pocket Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones in order to buy some blue suede shoes. She catches him, takes him back to her house, tells him to wash his face, gives him food and most importantly her advice.

Basic Understanding She teaches him that she was not perfect either in her childhood but that it doesn’t make it right for Roger to do the same. She gives him ten dollars to buy the shoes and when the boy leaves, he is so grateful that he was barely even able to say thank you.

Analysis and Interpretation: Literary Terms Every story is told by someone. That person is called the narrator. There a few kinds of narrators: 1 st Person 3 rd Person Omniscient https: //www. pexels. com/phot o/black-dynamic-microphone 207474/

Analysis and Interpretation: Literary Terms 1 st Person The person telling the story is a character in the story and uses the word “I” in his storytelling.

Analysis and Interpretation: Literary Terms 3 rd Person The person may or may not be a character in the story, but he tells the story about other people not about himself.

Analysis and Interpretation: Literary Terms Omniscient The person telling the story is not in the story at all. This person knows everything about everyone (what they think or feel) and knows what is happening to everyone at every second of the story.

Analysis and Interpretation: Literary Terms What kind of narrator is telling the story “Thank You Ma’m”?

Higher Order Thinking Skill - (HOT) Uncovering Motives What do you think motivated Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones from not punishing the thief and helping him instead?

Today’s Lesson was about: Short Story- Thank You Ma’am By Langston Hughes- Basic Understanding and Analysis Next Lesson will be about: Short Story- Thank You Ma’am By Langston Hughes- Bridging Text, Context and Theme