UNIT X UNIT 6 | 215 DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Be aware that some students may need a little more time to prepare their oral answers to the Check In questions. Read the questions aloud and then tell students to think about and formulate their answers in pairs before discussing them as a class. Amplify Have students brainstorm about how someone with Benjamin Franklin’s skills could help build a country. Ask: What skills did Benjamin Franklin have? (He could write, run a newspaper, and he was a businessman.) Do countries need writers to help build them? Why? (Countries need writers who can help write laws and documents that help run and build a country, like a constitution.) Reading • Read for biographical details Write the following headings on the board: birth place, school, work. Have students reread the text on Benjamin Franklin to find information about these three topics related to Franklin’s life. • Retell to confirm understanding Direct students’ attention to pamphlets on page 215. Ask: Who can remind us what pamphlets means? Let’s look at the words around it: He helped print pamphlets. He then sold the pamphlets on the street. If necessary, students can look to the glossary for help. Ask: Why would the brother of a printer sell pamphlets? (A printer makes pamphlets so it would be easy for his brother to get them and then sell them.) • Use text features to aid comprehension Direct students’ attention to the portrait (picture) of Benjamin Franklin on page 215. Say: We can imagine that Benjamin wore similar clothing when he was working at a newspaper. Do you think he literally ran around with a newspaper? What do you think ran a newspaper means? (Franklin probably did not run around in such formal clothes; ran the newspaper means that he was the boss and decided what the newspaper would publish.) • Check In Recall relevant details Have students focus on their KWL charts. Call on volunteers to share the information in their charts so far. Read question 1 aloud. Discuss students’ questions about Abigail Adams as a class. Then have students respond to both questions independently, reminding them to locate relevant details in the text to support their responses. ANSWERS Sample answers: 1. I learned that Abigail Adams encouraged her husband to consider women when he was making laws. 2. Benjamin Franklin went to school, but Abigail Adams did not. Franklin must have taught himself like Abigail Adams did. PRACTICE GLOSSARY pamphlets small books with information about a topic ran operated or managed Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1706. His family didn’t have much money, so he only went to school for two years. Then, he started working in his father’s soap and candle shop. At twelve, Benjamin helped his older brother, a printer. He helped print pamphlets. He then sold the pamphlets on the street. Franklin moved to New York and then Philadelphia. He got a job helping a printer. In 1729, he bought a newspaper. He ran the paper, and he also wrote articles for it. CHECK IN 1. Ask questions Look back at your K-W-L chart. How did the text answer your questions about Abigail Adams? 2. Compare and contrast How was Benjamin Franklin’s education different from Abigail Adams’s education? How was it similar? 215 UNIT 6 Great Americans UNIT 56 / CREOANDNINECGT TO THE THEME
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