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MODULE 2 LESSON 8
"IRON YOUTH"
With your partner, brainstorm one reason Kantorek might have referred to Paul and his friends as the “Iron Youth.”
WELCOME
OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE: Summarize the events and perspectives of the Iron Youth, before and after they join the army.
NOTE: The five journalistic questions(who, what, when, where, & why) are a way to summarize understandings.
LAUNCH
WHEN & WHERE DID THE STORY TAKE PLACE?
Encounter the Text
LEARN
read aloud chapter 2, from “It is strange to think that at home” and “With it goes hot tea and rum,” rotating the reader after every paragraph. LET'S READ!!!!!!!
ANNOTATE FOR "P"-PAST & "PR"-PRESENT
CH. 2 CHECK-IN
Summarize an Understanding of Key Details
Summarize an Understanding of Key Details
SAMPLE TIMELINE
END?
START?
WITH YOUR SQUADS, CREATE A TIMELINE THAT SHOWS THE LIST OF EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE FROM THE TIME PAUL & HIS FRIENDS WERE STUDENTS UNTIL THEY BECAME SOILDERS.
AFTER YOU CREATE YOUR TIMELINE, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR RESPONSE JOURNAL:
- Comradeship means “friendship based on shared or group activities or interests.” Why does the experience of the Iron Youth result in comradeship?
- How is the experience of the Iron Youth different than that of older men’s experience?
- How do words like melancholy, embittered, and indifferent help you understand what life at war was like for the Iron Youth?
Examine Using Broad Categories
Examine Using Broad Categories
https://s3.greatminds.org/link_files/files/000/001/345/original/08.02.L08A_Handout.pdf?1472854349
After we read the text, complete the questions on Handout 8A with your partner.
SHARE ONE EXPERIENCE OF THE IRON YOUTH FROM CH. 1 OR 2.
*EVERYONE MUST SHARE*
LAND
WRAP
WRAP
Reread chapter 2 of the novel, annotating for the status report, and continue your fluency homework.
DEEP DIVE
Learning Goal: Define threshold as used in context and determine its relationship to a broad category.
YOUNGER MEN
OLDER MEN
DEEP DIVE
BASED ON THE TEXT, WHAT MIGHT THRESHOLD MEAN?
Next, choose the definition of threshold that is used in this paragraph and write one to two sentences that connect Kantorek’s saying they “stood on the threshold of life” to the loss of innocence (20).
Lastly, brainstorm other figurative thresholds, or markers of maturity, that adolescents and young adults experience.