This lesson will encourage students to make self-text connections to a passage read to students about the Pueblo People by generating a brainstorming session to fill out a graphic organizer on the whiteboard listing what the students gleaned from the reading.

Seventh grade students will use comprehension strategies to better understand content area non-fiction. Seventh grade students will brainstorm to complete a graphic organizer about the Pueblo People. Seventh grade students will locate and access a print source to supplement the passage being read. Seventh grade learners will fill out bibliographic citation forms for the print source located.

Bibliographic Citation Form The American Indian in America, Volume 1 by Jane Clark Jones Whiteboard and marker Xerox handout of passage read by LMS to class

As an anticipatory set, the social studies teacher will ask the class what region of the United States do the Pueblo People come from and what interesting tidbit of information can you recall from your prior knowledge about their culture?

After students discuss their prior knowledge, the LMS will read a passage from The American Indian in America, Volume 1, pages 55-60, while students read along from handout that is provided.

Class will brainstorm with both teachers to complete a five column graphic organizer on the whiteboard listing geological location, time period, housing, diet and special features.

Students will be encouraged to make text-self connections to the information they reaped from the passage.

When the brainstorming has concluded, students will be asked to go to the library shelves and find one print resource which must be approved by the subject teacher or LMS. The subject teacher will explain that this source will be the first source used by the students for a presentation that they will prepare over a week's time about the Pueblo People for which he will provide more instructions about and a rubric the following day in class.

The students are to complete a bibliographic citation form for this print source (review from a prior lesson). This will allow them to re-access this source at a later time or so that it can be checked out and used for the upcoming project.

The final product for this project will be dispayed in the Library Media Center.

As a closure activity, the class make text-world connections between what they learned about the Pueblo People compared to the other Native American cultures they have already studied.

The assessment method will be a collaborative effort by the LMS and social studies teacher that will require them to observe the students' responses to the brainstorming session and the closure activity. The LMS will check the students' bibliographic citation for accuracy, as well.

Ray Gaylord, 7th grade social studies teacher at Granville Jr./Sr. High School in Granville, New York