Murder on the Orient Express Lesson Plan

Parsing a Clue

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will use textual support to defend and challenge their own and others’ updated guesses about who killed Ratchett.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.4

Structure:

Give students time to review the text so far.

On a Google doc, each student writes their guess at who killed Ratchett and a sentence or two that incorporates and interprets one item of textual support.

They then...