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Holt Elements of Literature - 2005 Grade 7
Unit 3
Title: Hearts and Hands
Suggested Time: 4 days (45 minutes per day)
Common Core ELA Standards: RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.4, RL.7.6;
W.7.2, W.7.4, W.7.7, W.7.8, W.7.9; SL.7.1; L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.4, L 7.5
Teacher Instructions
Preparing for Teaching
1. Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the
students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that
students should take away after completing this task.
Big Ideas and Key Understandings:
Do not judge a book by its cover and show compassion for others.
Synopsis:
Two men who are handcuffed together board a train. Miss Fairchild, a young and
elegant woman, recognizes the younger of the two men, Mr. Easton, and reintroduces
herself to him. She then notices that the two men are handcuffed to each other. The
older man explains that he is being taken prison by Mr. Easton, the marshal. Miss
Fairchild, relieved, continues chatting with Mr. Easton until the other man complains that
he wants to have a pipe. The pair departs amicably. After they leave, a passenger who
overheard the conversation reveals that Mr. Easton is actually the prisoner and the other
man is the marshal.
2. Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.
3. Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and
teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary.
During Teaching
1. Students read the entire selection independently.

Holt Elements of Literature - 2005 Grade 7
2. Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along or students take turns reading
aloud to each other. Depending on the text length and student need, the teacher may
choose to read the full text or a passage aloud. For a particularly complex text, the teacher
may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.
3. Students and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the
questions, continually returning to the text. A variety of methods can be used to structure
the reading and discussion (i.e., whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent
written response, group work, etc.)
Text Dependent Questions
Text-dependent Questions Evidence-based Answers
Describe the three main characters. (p. 239) Miss Fairchild is an attractive young woman
with a lovely smile who is “accustomed to
speak and being heard” and is an experienced
traveler. (239)
“Mr. Easton is a young man with a handsome
presence and a bold, frank countenance and
manner” (240).
The other man is “a ruffled, glum-faced
person, heavily built and roughly dressed”
(239).
Using textual evidence from page 239-240,
why is Mr. Easton embarrassed?
Look at the following description from page
240 of Miss Fairchild:
“The glad look in the girl’s eyes changed to
a bewildered horror.