The document provides an overview of classroom activities and lessons for students reading the novel The Rains. It includes the objective to increase students' skills in making inferences from text, homework assigning students to write questions for the book's author, vocabulary lessons on the words "prevailed" and "disillusionment", class work of reading specific pages and answering comprehension questions, and an exit ticket question about a character named Reverend Catto.

1. January 4, 2012: a RAINS
day
I N THE LAST READING
WE LEARNED OF THE
MOB VIOLENCE THAT
WAS OFTEN DIRECTED
TOWARDS A FRICAN
A MERICANS IN
P HILADELPHIA . W ERE
YOU SURPRISED ? D O
YOU THINK
P HILADELPHIA IS NOW
A GOOD PLACE FOR
A FRICAN A MERICANS ?

2. Objective:
Students will
increase their skills in
making inferences
from text by reading
the novel The Rains.
They will be
assessed by their
answers to questions
designed to measure
their comprehension
and ability to make
inferences

3. Homework:
Write down
3 questions
that you
might want
to ask Dr.
Clark, author
of the book.

4. Vocabulary: Prevailed
Won / Win
The Eagles
prevailed in
their final
game against
Dallas

5. Vocabulary:
Disillusionment
To be
disillusioned
To be
disappointed
Eagles fans
are full of
Disillusionme
nt

6. Class work:
Read The
Rains pages
116 to 127
Answer
comprehensio
n questions

7. Exit Ticket:
What
happened to
Reverend
Catto?