Activate Prior Knowledge (5 minutes)
Post the following on the board for students to respond to as they walk into the classroom: When you think of a superfan, what words come to mind? Invite volunteers to share their ideas. Sample answers: obsessed, love, enthusiastic, screaming, emotional
Preview Text Features (15 minutes)
Guide students to locate the articles. Then preview the text features by asking the following questions:
- Read the title for the whole feature (both articles together). Read the subtitles (the text around the title). Look at the images of fans in the past and fans today. How are the pictured Beatles fans similar to the pictured BTS fans? How are they different? Both groups of fans are showing a lot of enthusiasm and excitement on their faces. Both groups appear to be screaming. The main difference is that today’s fans have phones in their hands while fans from the past did not have phones, only signs.
- Read the first article’s title and subtitle. What do you think it means to be lasting legends? A legend is someone extremely famous. Calling the Beatles lasting legends means that they have continued to be extremely famous over time.
- Read the second article’s title and subtitle. What, if anything, do you know about K-pop? Answers will vary. If students don’t know anything about K-pop, tell them they’ll find out what it is when they read the article.
Preview Vocabulary (10 minutes)
- Point out the vocabulary box. Read the terms (chaos, desperate, armored, stream, devoted) aloud and discuss their definitions.
- Play the Vocabulary Slideshow.
Make a Plan for Reading
Before students start to read, walk them through a reading plan:
- Set a purpose for reading by telling students that the articles provide information about how fans have shown their devotion to bands in the past and how they do it today.
- Tell students that after they read, they’ll complete a compare-and-contrast activity using information from the texts.