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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\nJohn Stetson was innovative and determined to succeed.  Through his perseverance, problem solving, and creativity, he invented the most used and the most useful hat to the people of the West; the Boss of the Plains.\nSynopsis\n“Boss of the Plains” is a biography that tells the story of John Batterson Stetson, who worked with his father as a hatter, until he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decides goes to explore the American West.  Through his time with the people of the West, he invents a better hat for them to wear than the ones they were wearing.  The hat achieved instant popularity and was named the “Boss of the Plains” to become the first real cowboy hat.\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.\n(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 Under Consideration\nText-Dependent Questions\nAnswer\nPg. 220\nand 221\nWhat types of hats did settlers and travelers wear?  Why was a hat important protection for settlers and travelers in the American West?\nKnit caps, wool derbies, straw sombreros, old sea captain’s caps, army hats, calico sunbonnets, homburgs, slouch hats, silk high hats.  The hats used in the lands they came from.\nA hat was important protection from burning sunshine, drenching rain, whipping wind, swirling snow\nP. 222\nWhen does the story take place?\n1840’s\nP. 223\nWhat do we know about the main character, John Batterson Stetson?\nTwelve years old\nWorked with his father in the family’s hat maker shop in Orange, New Jersey\nHas eleven brothers and sisters\nDaydreamed of going to the West\nAt this point in the story, we do not know he later becomes sick with tuberculosis\nP. 223\nform\nThe Stetsons made hats the same way hatters had done it for years:  by pressing felt, made from wet fur and wool, over a wooden form to shape it.\nWhat does the word form mean?\nForm can be used as a verb - to make or produce. In the picture, the men are forming hats on frames.\nForm is also a noun as in something that gives the shape, as in this sentence\nWhat does the shape of the wooden form look like in the picture?  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