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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.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nBeing one of a kind can be very difficult.  Hard work, determination and perseverance are some of the attributes needed to face challenges in a world that tries to limit you.\nSynopsis\nGertrude Ederle grew up in the early 1900s when equality for women was not the same as today.  In this story\nGertrude Ederle faces obstacles, both physical and social that she overcomes in order to prevail at her lifelong dream of being the first women to swim the English Channel.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and 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.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText-dependent Questions\nEvidence-based Answers\nThe text states that Gertrude Ederle’s place was in the water.  What can be concluded from this statement? Use the illustration on page 92 to support your answer.\nGertrude Ederle’s place was in the water which according to the statement in the text as well as the illustration, one can conclude that she enjoyed swimming.\nReread the first paragraph on page 93.  The text states that “It wasn’t until she was seven that she had her first adventure in the water.” What was her adventure and how did this adventure impact her life?  Find evidence from the text to support your answer.\nGertrude fell into a pond and nearly drowned while visiting her grandmother in Germany.  After this event Gertrude’s father was determined to teach her how to swim.  Soon she swam better than any of her siblings.\nReread page 94.  Gertrude became a member of the New York Women’s Swimming Association. This organization is for women only.  What could be concluded through evidence in the text about the rights of women in the early 1900’s?\n(Pg. 92) In 1906 women were kept out of many clubs and restaurants, some states women were not even allowed to vote and many people felt that a women’s place was in the home.\n(Pg. 94) She joined the association to take swimming lessons.\nIt was hard to keep her out of the water.  She loved to swim.\nGertrude began taking swimming lessons. How did Gertrude improve as a swimmer? (Pg. 94)\nAt fifteen she won her first race, a year later she attempted to be the first woman to swim seventeen miles from lower Manhattan to Sandy Hook, New Jersey.  She accomplished this task and even beat the men’s record.\nReread page 95. 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