Lesson #2:
An adapted excerpt from a speech by Dr. Benjamin Carson about the importance of teaching Black children about their history:
Anybody could take a young Black boy by the hand and walk down the streets of Baltimore. They could give him a Black history lesson that would thrill his heart.
You could point at his feet and tell him it was Mr. Matzeliger, a Black man, who invented the machine used to make shoes. Looking down, you could point at the street and say it was Mr. Brooks, a Black man, who invented the street sweeper that cleans the streets.
When you came to a traffic light, you could tell him it was invented by Mr. Morgan, a Black man. Morgan also invented the gas mask, which saved many lives during wars. Speaking of war, it was Ms. Bradbury, a Black woman, who invented the underwater cannon – now used for torpedoes.
When you see a beautiful Black woman, you can tell him about Madam Walker, the first woman in America to become a millionaire on her own. She invented make-up for people with a dark complexion.
If you walk by a hospital, you can tell him how Dr. Drew, a Black man, created blood banks. Or, you could tell him about Dr. Williams, a Black man, the first doctor to perform open-heart surgery.
You could even tell him about Mr. Latimer, a Black man, who invented the part of the light bulb that allowed it to work for more than two or three days. Mr. Latimer worked very closely with Thomas Edison, but few people have ever heard of him.
Finally, you can tell him about Mr. McCoy, a Black man, who invented the lubrication system for trains. He was so good that people, before buying something, would ask, “Is this a McCoy? Is this the real McCoy?”
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Using Reach's Lesson Planning Template, our tutors will then be guided in using this content to develop a lesson plan for a future tutoring session. The tutor will identify a word family, generate an exhaustive word family list, and outline various ways of showing the identified sound. Tutors will also identify potential vocabulary words and strategies for defining those words. Additionally, tutors will identify at least four questions that will check text comprehension during reading. Finally, the tutor will come up with a plan to promote fluency. By the end of this final training session, each tutor will have created a high-quality lesson plan based on Dr. Carson's speech. A potential plan is outlined below:
1) The tutor introduces /ack/ word family.
2) The student orally generates lists of words with /ack/ sound.
3) The tutor writes out words, showing that the sound can be shown with different letter combinations. The tutor then identifies /ack/ (back, lack, black) as today's focus, but recognizes the same sound can be shown in different ways (Cadillac, plaque, vacuum).
4) Using prepared notecards - ack, b, l, t, r, ing, s, ed - the tutor uses manipulation of cards for lessons in phonemic addition, deletion, and substitution.
5) Turning to today's passage, the tutor reads the passage out loud. The tutor then identifies two potential vocabulary words - complexion and lubrication. The tutor then demonstrates use of context to define complexion and uses dictionary to define lubrication.
6) The student and tutor read the passage together.
7) The student reads the passage alone while the tutor asks comprehension questions. After 2nd paragraph - What do you think the rest of the passage will be about? After 3rd paragraph - What were Mr. Morgan's two inventions? After paragraph 6 - Who did Mr. Latimer work with? After completing the passage - What was the most interesting part to you?
8) After completing the lesson, the student can pick a book from the classroom library to read until program conclusion.
Thanks, as always, for reading.
Mark
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