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Article 3: The Business of Energy Word Count: 321 Vocabulary: N/A High Impact Teaching Strategies: Collaborative Learning, Multiple Exposures, Questioning Lesson Plan: 1. Divide the class into groups of 3-4 students. 2. Explain to students that they will be reading the article “The Business of Energy” a little differently. You, the teacher, will read each paragraph out loud first, then students will reread the same paragraph in their small groups, answering text-dependent questions that can only be answered in the paragraph that was just read. 3. Assign each student a role in their group: a. Person 1: Reader (reads the paragraph out loud for the second reading) b. Person 2: Question Reader (reads the question) c. Person 3: Historian (unearths the answer in the paragraph and highlights it) d. Person 4: Scribe (records the answer to the question that was unearthed in the text) 4. Ask students to number the paragraphs in the article. (There are four paragraphs in the article.) 5. Read the first paragraph out loud to your students. Ask students if they have any clarifying questions that need to be answered. 6. Ask students to take on the assigned roles they have been given. Ask the readers to reread paragraph 1 with their learning groups. 7. Ask the question reader to read the text-dependent question(s) for the paragraph. 8. Ask the historian to unearth the answer to the question in the paragraph. 9. When the answer has been unearthed, have the scribe record the answer. 10.Repeat this process with paragraphs 2-5, having students answer the text-dependent questions: a. How did candlestick makers make their candles? (Candlestick makers found opportunities to make more candles. Candle making was a long process of dipping a wick into liquid wax. The wax would harden. The candle would be dipped again and again. Candles got used up quickly. People needed many candles in a week to illuminate the night.) b. What product did oil make to help bring energy/light sources to a community? (With oil, we make products like kerosene, gasoline, and lamp oil.) c. What was Benjamin Franklin's contribution to electricity? (Benjamin Franklin Change Over Time | Week 27 (This step can be done before the reading as well.) a. What is an entrepreneur? (Answers will vary.)
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