1. Reading
Unit: 2 Lesson: 10
Module: A
Objectives:
Define and use close-reading vocabulary words.RL.4.4
Refer to details and examples when explaining what a text says. RL.4.1
Today we will be doing a
Close Reading
of pages 55 – 57.
Essential Questions:
How does a reader identify themes?
How does a writer develop and organize writing that matches purpose and
audience?
How does a writer use internal and external dialogue to develop the theme
of the story?

2. First Read Let’s explore the text!
As you review the selection, examine the text and the illustration on p. 56. What might this part of the story be about? The characters continue to speak about the contrast between animals and humans.

3. Focus: What is the “gist” of the text?
Read Aloud Routine
Focus: What is the “gist” of the text?
I will begin reading Pecos Bill while you follow along in your book. Then, you will continue reading up to page 57 silently on your own. Focus on dialogue, theme, and descriptions of nature.
Be prepared to discuss the following questions when you are done with the reading:
• Based on the text, why would Pecos Bill think that
The Hell’s Gate Gang would be his kind of folks?
• What evidence is there in the text to explain how
strong Pecos Bill was?
• What questions do you have?

4. Second Read When you reread the text, focus on how the author
uses dialogue and details about nature to reveal theme.
Be prepared to discuss the following questions when you are done
with the reading:
1. For the last seventeen years, what has Pecos Bill suspected about himself? Based on this section, what human traits does Pecos Bill adopt? What animal traits does Pecos Bill maintain?
2. Based on the ranch hand’s description of the Hell’s Gate Gang on p. 56, what does the word mangiest mean?
3. Why does Pecos Bill leave to join the gang?
4. How does Pecos Bill speak to the rattlesnake? How does Pecos Bill speak to the mountain lion? Why does Pecos Bill feel a connection with the mountain lion?
5. What does it mean when the big cat had to cry uncle on p. 57?

5. Focused Reading Vocabulary Routine: Text-Based Vocabulary
• ignorant, (p. 55)
dazed, (p. 57)
Vocabulary Routine:
1. Read the sentence containing the word.
2. Identify context clues about its meaning within the passage.
3. Look up the word in a dictionary and read the definition.
4. Use the word in other ways.
*After we review these words, write your sentences on p. 94 in your Reader’s and Writer’s Journal.*

6. Discuss how the dialogue in the story reveals themes about nature.
Focused Reading
Text-Based Conversation
On p. 55, the ranch hand judges the Hell’s Gate Gang negatively because they are “more animal than human.” However, based on this same trait, Pecos Bill judges the gang positively and goes to join them. Pecos Bill respects nature more than he respects humans who are supposedly civilized.
Discuss how the dialogue in the story reveals themes about nature.

7. Focused Reading Team Talk Routine
Does Pecos Bill make the right choice in leaving the ranch for Hell’s Gate Canyon? Use details from the text to support your opinion.

8. Language Analysis Craft and Structure
Dialogue is what characters say out loud to each other. Their exact words are enclosed in quotation marks and separated from the narration by commas. Each speaker’s words appear as a separate paragraph. Authors use dialogue to reveal character traits. A character may tell readers about his or her thoughts, ideas, personality, or actions. A character may also tell readers about other characters. Based on the dialogue, readers may draw inferences about the characters’ traits.

9. Language Analysis Cite Text Evidence
Focus on Pecos Bill’s dialogue with the ranch hands (p. 56).
•What does the dialogue reveal about
character traits?
•How does the dialogue give information about the different characters?
•What do readers learn about Bill based on these lines of dialogue?

10. Writing in Response to Reading
Independent Reading
Reading Analysis
Work independently to add additional radiating circles to their Web, using Bill’s dialogue with the mountain lion.
Writing in Response to Reading
Write a dialogue between yourself and Pecos Bill, using language that reflects the way Bill speaks in the story.

11. Small Groups It’s time to get into our groups!
Please see me if you don’t know what group you belong in.

12. Writing Objectives: Narrative Writing Use dialogue and description in
Use prepositional phrases.

13. Writing Narrative Writing
When writing a narrative, a writer develops characters through dialogue, or words that characters say to each other. A writer may also use description to develop experiences and events
and to show the responses of characters to situations. Dialogue and description both help to enrich a narrative and help readers understand characters and events.
• How does dialogue help me to understand a character’s traits?
• How does dialogue help me see how characters react to situations?
• What vivid language does the writer use to describe characters’ actions and words?
How do descriptions and vivid adjectives help me picture what is happening?

14. Writing Analyze the Text
A writer reveals character traits through dialogue and description.
Notice what dialogue suggests about the character of Pecos Bill.
Most main characters are complex. While Pecos Bill is fearless and reckless, he is also caring and compassionate.

15. Conventions Focus: Prepositional Phrases
Writing
Conventions Focus: Prepositional Phrases
Some sentences contain phrases that show a relationship in space, direction, or time. These phrases are called prepositional phrases because they begin with prepositions.
In the prepositional phrase “in the big city,” in is the preposition, and city is the object of the preposition. Other examples of prepositions include above, across, to, onto, at, during, and since.

16. Writing Independent Writing
Write two paragraphs describing an interaction between Pecos Bill and one of the cowpokes at the ranch. The paragraphs should describe an interaction not described in the text and should use dialogue and description to develop the characters.
Be sure that:
the language of the dialogue is similar to the language in “Pecos Bill.”
you correctly punctuate dialogue.