Chapter IV: Night

Print out class copies of the following:

• Chapter IV: Night
• Graphic Organizer

Lesson

1. This chapter focuses on descriptive writing. Before reading Chapter IV, prepare students to listen for sights, sounds, smells, and feelings experienced on a packet boat at night. Provide students with a Graphic Organizer to record the sensory images found in the chapter.
2. Read aloud in class Chapter IV of Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal.
3. After classroom discussion, students answer the following questions in their journals.

Response Journal Questions

1. Write a description about what it was like to spend the night on a packet boat.
2. Create a picture with words that makes the reader feel as if he or she were on the packet boat.

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