“Thank You Ma’am” and “The Road Not Taken” Lesson Support BEFORE READING Setting Purpose Use the Interest Grabber from pg. 185 of the Annotated Teacher’s Edition of Prentice Hall Literature, Silver Level. You might even choose to stage this as an event in your own classroom The Literature and Your Life box on pg. 184, under Connect Your Experience, asks students to think about an event when they have been surprised by someone’s kindness. This could be a lead-in to a discussion about choices, which is one of the central themes shared by both passages. Making Predictions/Confirm and Adjust Predictions Some of the questions in the margin of the Annotated Teacher’s Edition deal with predictions and inferences. Use these, in conjunction with a Think Aloud approach, to encourage students to share predictions. Predictions can be recorded by the teacher (on an overhead or white board) or by students on the back of the Response to Character’s Actions worksheet. DURING and AFTER READING The following overhead worksheets are available (for checking comprehension) during and after reading both passages. These will be useful prior to comparing and contrasting the author’s purpose, themes, etc. Prentice Hall Literary Focus and Reading Transparencies Booklet Reading Strategy Making Text-to-Self Connections Response to Character Actions (Thank You Ma’am) pg. 31 o This is similar to a Double Entry Response. Monitoring/Checking Comprehension Literary Focus- Theme (Thank You Ma’am) pg. 32