UNIT X UNIT 6 | 219 DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Before writing their responses to Activity B, have students work in pairs to discuss and compare their answers. Help students structure their ideas into similarities and differences. Direct students to write down their notes. Amplify Have groups role play a meeting between Salem Poor, Abigail Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. Brainstorm ideas of what these people might want to say to each other in a conversation. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Write: Biographies Write a short biography of your life. Write about what you have done or would like to do to help build your country. Discuss the Reading A Ask and answer questions Have students work in pairs to discuss the questions. Allow plenty of time for discussion before pairs share their ideas with the class. Remind students to point out where in the text they found evidence for their answers to questions. ANSWERS Sample answers: 1. I was correct that these people helped shape the new country. Salem Poor helped Americans win the war with Britain, Abigail Adams influenced her husband, and Benjamin Franklin helped write the Declaration of Independence to make America free. 2. Poor and Adams were similar because they didn’t have the same rights as white men. They could not vote or write laws. 3. Poor was an African-American man and a former slave, and it was very unusual for a man like him to be successful and respected. He fought for a country that sometimes would not even allow him to join the military. 4. Adams used her influence with her husband to remind him to consider women when writing laws. She was a woman and wanted to protect other women. 5. Franklin started a library for other people who didn’t have books. He solved problems like creating bifocals for people who needed help seeing things far away and up close, and speaking for the colonists to the British government. 6. Salem Poor—fighting in the American Revolutionary War; Abigail Adams—writing to her husband and the presidents after him; Benjamin Franklin—signing the Declaration of Independence; 7. Different people helped the United States become a country by fighting for independence, writing to presidents to help change laws, and writing the Declaration of Independence. • B Make a comparison Have volunteers read aloud the directions and questions. Have students scan the text and look at the photo. Then direct them to make notes to answer the question. Have students work independently. ANSWERS Sample answer: I think the Benjamin Franklin memorial was built because people wanted to honor Franklin. He helped America gain independence from Britain, started a library, and invented many other things to help the American people. Practice Book pp. 117 –119 Assessment Program p. 103 COMMUNICATE PRACTICE Discuss the Reading A Discuss the questions. 1. Revisit your prediction Before the reading, you predicted why the people in your chart were important. What was correct? What was incorrect? 2. Explain How were Salem Poor and Abigail Adams similar? 3. Evaluate Why were Salem Poor’s actions so important at the time? 4. Infer How did Abigail Adams help women? Why was this important to her? 5. Problem and resolution What problems did Benjamin Franklin solve? How? 6. Assess Which events in each person’s life were the most important to the country? 7. Respond to the essential question How did different people help the United States become a country? B Making connections Make a connection between what you learned about Benjamin Franklin and what you know about memorials. Why do you think there’s a memorial for Benjamin Franklin? The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial is in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. UNIT 6 219 UNIT 6 / AFTER YOU READ
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