Leaving Your Mark 6-pack Author: Various ISBN: 9780176358075 Lesson Plan Grade Level: 8 Theme/Topic: Character Education, Personal Change Classification: Fiction, Nonfiction

Key Reading Strategy: Evaluating Information

The lesson plans in this issue of High Wire Magazine highlight the reading strategy of Evaluating Information.  Opportunities to use this strategy are indicated by the symbol.  For more information on this strategy, see page 9.  Assessment Master 6 in the Program and Assessment Guide can be used for this strategy.

Curriculum Link: social studies

Introducing the Magazine

Setting the Scene

Tell the students that this issue of High Wire Magazine is about people making a difference, be it big or small.  There is information about people leaving their mark through their art, through medical innovation, and through sheer determination.

Making Connections

Tell the students that as they work their way through this magazine, they will learn about many ways people can make a difference in the world. Ask questions such as the following:

• What sort of “difference” would have the most impact on you?  Why?
• Do you want to change the world?  How?
• Do you sometimes feel powerless to bring about change?  Why?

The selections in this issue of High Wire Magazine include a variety of genres, although most of them are nonfiction.  Spend some time previewing forms of nonfiction before you start reading the selections.

For more information please see our Lesson Plan