Salt Revolution

• I will be able to summarize and analyze a nonfiction excerpts by using the roadmapping WWH strategy. 

• I will be able to apply the roadmapping WWH strategy to answer reading comprehension questions based on the text

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

1. Watch video about Gandhi's Salt March

2. Next, read the worksheet. Underline the most important sentences in the paragraph. Then road map using 5-7 words

3. Fill out the graphic organizer in Google Classroom

4. Submit

A boycott is when a person stops using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest or disapproval.

Boycott

The violent and unvoluntary act of taking over a country for the purpose of money and global expansion.

Colonization

a person who stands up for rights of people with the hope of causing a complete or dramatic change

Revolutionary

A demonstration against the British Salt Acts where Gandi and his followers marched 240 miles to make their own salt in the ocean.

Salt March

1. WHO (or what) is this paragraph about? 

   Who is subject/topic?

2. WHAT is happening in the paragraph?

   • What important information does the author want you to know about the subject/topic?

3. HOW is it being described?   

   • Positive/negative/neutral 

We are going to read an Excerpt from I am Malala  by Malala Yousafzai. 

• Watch me as I read the first section of the passage

• I will read and use 5-7 words to summarize each paragraph

• See how captures important details!

And the most important thing: 

You must try to be as accurate as possible! DO NOT USE YOUR OPINION!

I Do: Teacher Model

1. Roadmapping is 5-7 words, phrases, or symbols that express the general/ central idea of each paragraph.

   • WHO (or what) is this paragraph about?

   • WHAT is happening in the paragraph? 

   • HOW is it being described?    

     Sample Roadmap: R.M. = fun + EZ :)

I am Malala Section 1: I DO!

Who? Malala/ Mom

What? Malala's face

How? is healing mom seems worried "Will it get better?

A little while later my mother joined us. I had just started taking small steps, but I still needed someone to help me in the bathroom. Since that first day, my mother had tried not to stare at my face. But as she guided me into the bathroom, I noticed she stole a look at my reflection in the mirror. Our eyes met for a moment, then she looked away.   Then came a whisper. "Your face," she said. "Will it get better?"  

I am Malala Section 1: Continued (I Do)

Road Map

Mother worried about Malala’s face/appearance 🙁

A little while later my mother joined us. I had just started taking small steps, but I still needed someone to help me in the bathroom. Since that first day, my mother had tried not to stare at my face. But as she guided me into the bathroom, I noticed she stole a look at my reflection in the mirror. Our eyes met for a moment, then she looked away.   Then came a whisper. "Your face," she said. "Will it get better?"  

Gandhi

​an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

• Britain’s Salt Act of 1882 prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in their diet.

• Indian citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from their British rulers

• British rulers charged a heavy salt tax.

• Although India’s poor suffered most under the tax, all Indians required salt.