The Medicine Bag: Full Lesson Plan w/ PowerPoints & Graphic Organizers
- Grades
- Grades 6–8
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Literature
- Topic
- The Medicine Bag, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
- Resource types
- Lesson Plans
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- RL.6.1
Product description
From the author
This resource will give you supporting materials for a full, comprehensive reading lesson plan for The Medicine Bag text by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. Files are offered as PDFs and Word documents.
Included:
-The Medicine Bag Lesson Plan
-The Medicine Bag Worksheet
-The Medicine Bag Answer Key
Graphic Organizers:
Author’s Purpose
Characterization Chart
Figurative Language Chart
Historical Analysis Chart
Imagery Chart
Peer Evaluation Sheet
Plot Diagram
Read for Detail
Setting
Style Chart
Symbol Chart
Symbolism Chart
Theme Diagram
Tone and Mood Diagram
Universal Plot Diagram
Venn Diagram
PowerPoints:
Characterization
Imagery, Voice, and Persona
Irony and Ambiguity
Narrator and Voice
Plot Structure
Symbolism and Allegory
Theme - How to Interpret
Theme
Thank You Bonus Stuff!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify and apply literary terms related to symbolism and characterization, which the lesson plan names as its first objective
Draw inferences about character from story events — why the children hide Grandpa's picture, why the family feels guilty about his visit
Explain what the medicine bag stands for and how the narrator changes across the story
Teaching tips
The story text is not part of the download — the lesson plan lists it under Materials — so have a class set or anthology ready before the sequence starts
The organizers can support other texts; several include title and author fields, while others use topic-specific tables
If no projector is available, the lesson plan says to write the terms on the board instead of running the PowerPoint, which keeps the sequence intact
Skills covered
Inference from character behaviour — fifteen worksheet questions ask what can be inferred about Martin, Grandpa, Mom and reservation life from specific moments in the story.
Symbolism — a PowerPoint separates symbol from allegory, and the Symbol and Symbolism charts ask students to pair a passage from the story with what it stands for.
Characterization — the PowerPoint distinguishes direct from indirect characterization with examples, and the Characterization Chart asks for a textual example plus the inference drawn from it.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
What does a teacher need to have ready before the lesson starts?
Have a copy of The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, the worksheet, the selected literary organizers and the Peer Evaluation Handout ready. A projector is optional for the PowerPoints.
Can the graphic organizers be used with a different story?
The organizers use reusable literary-analysis prompts that can support other stories. Select the organizer that matches the literary element being taught; not every organizer has the same heading fields.
What is the Write-Pair-Share page for?
It scripts the discussion routine the lesson plan leans on: number students 1 and 2, give writing time while circulating and quietly nominating students to share later, have pairs read the question to each other rather than asking "What did you get?", then take the nominated shares.
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Standards
Standards
- RL.6.1
Core concepts
Core concepts
Short story analysis
Symbolism
Characterization
Theme
Inference
Topics
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