Standards:
Literary Response and Analysis 3.2: Identify the main events of the plot, their causes, and the influence of each event on future actions.ideas or feelings in works of art.

Objective:
-To read and respond to a literary text.
-Recall events from the prior reading.

Anticipatory Set:
Students will recall one important event that occurred in yesterday’s reading, and partner share it with the student next to them. Students will be given a moment to think of an event on their own, then they will be asked to turn to their partner and share their thought. Next the teacher will facilitate a short group discussion where students share the event they or their partner recalled.
Conduct: Listen; follow along with your copy of the text; share with your partner during partner talk.
Transfer: Open your books to page 96 and let’s continue reading.
Purpose: During yesterday’s reading Mrs. Frisby volunteered to do the dangerous job of giving Dragon sleeping powder. Today we’re going to read to find out what happens next and how the rats will help Mrs. Frisby with her problem.
Motivation: During yesterday’s reading we found out that Mrs. Frisby’s husband, Jonathan, knew the rats and was killed by Dragon the cat. Today maybe we’ll find out how they knew each other.

Learning Activity:
The teacher will read aloud the chapters “The Marketplace” and “In the Cage” from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Comprehension/recollection questions will be asked during reading:
p.100 Jenner- Where did we hear this name before?
p.102 Why do you think the rats were captured? (Prediction)
p.105 What is a laboratory?
p.108 Explain control group
p.110 Was Nicodemus in the control group?

Differentiated Instruction:
Students will work/talk in pairs, allowing for ideas to be heard and shared. A student may choose to share his/her partner's thought.

Assessment:
Did students remember what happened in the prior reading? Can students answer teacher questions or make teacher prompted predictions? Were students listening to the reading? Based on teacher observation/notes and student response.

Closure:
-The chapter “In the Cage” ends, “Yet for twenty of us those injections were to change our whole lives.” Ask students how do you think it changed their lives? Think of ordinary rats vs. the Rats of NIMH (the rats in the book can read, work, have electricity, etc.)
-Dismiss students to center activities.