. Imagine you are Sam from the story ‘The Ransom of Red Chief’. Write a diary entry sharing your
feelings and experience of kidnapping a rowdy boy Johnny in about 80-100 words
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Explanation:
Unit 5
Title: The Ransom of Red Chief
Suggested Time: 4 days (45 minutes per day)
Common Core ELA Standards: RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.8.6, RL.8.7, RL.8.9; W.8.2, W.8.4, W.8.9; SL.8.1; L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.5
Teacher Instructions
Preparing for Teaching
Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.
Big Ideas and Key Understandings
Writers use irony to fuel the plot of a story.
Synopsis
Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of a wealthy citizen and hold him for ransom. The boy they choose, instead of being the docile, frightened child one would expect, is a terror who abuses Bill in every way he can think of, all in the name of fun. The response to their ransom note is not what they would have wished: instead of paying $1500 to get Johnny ba
Text Dependent Questions
In the first three paragraphs of page ___, the narrator shares that he and his partner have come up with the idea to kidnap someone. Why do they decide on the town of Summit? Use words and phrases from the text to support your response.
Theyre a group of harmless people who will not go after them. It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious and self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole. (paragraph 2)
It is a semi-rural community and they care for their children. (paragraph 3)
Philoprogenitiveness, says we, is strong in semi-rural communities; therefore a kidnapping project ought to do better there than in the radius of newspapers that send out reporters in plain clothes to stir up talk about such things. (paragraph 3)
They dont have the resources to capture the kidnappers because they dont have anything stronger than constables and, maybe, some lackadaisical bloodhounds and a diatribe or two in the Weekly Farmers Budget. (paragraph 3)
....ck, the father demands $250 to take the boy off their hands. In desperation, they agree, and end the story poorer than they began.
Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.
Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary.
During Teaching
Students read the entire selection independently.
Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along or students take turns reading aloud to each other. Depending on the text length and student need, the teacher may choose to read the full text or a passage aloud. For a particularly complex text, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.
Students and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions, continually returning to the text. A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e., whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)