M2 Lesson 2

Identify observations and questions about the introduction to Code Talker. (RL.7.1)

✓ Complete Notice and Wonder chart with key details and questions about the text. 

This is a historical fiction

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​What do I mean by Historical Fiction?

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​What do you infer and wonder about the text from the front cover?

Listen as I read pages 1-3

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​Jot down things you infer/wonder.

• The narrator is talking to his grandchildren about a medal he won in the war.

• Ira Hayes is not "one of our people" is he a Navajo?

• Italic words= Navajo words

• Helped send a message

• Is this a true story on how the Navajo helped America win a war?

• Is he a Navajo?

• What does Code Talker mean?

• Is this book about Identity too?

• Why couldn't they tell their families the secret?

• Why did lives depend on mens memories?

Who? How? When?

1. ​By a grandfather

2. ​In a true story form

3. ​Using past events and memories

We talk about ourselves using words such as I, me, my, mine and myself.

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​True or False

Listen to chapter 1 "Sent Away"

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​**Jot down things you infer/wonder about who is telling the story and their identity.**