This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing.

Galileo refines the telescope, becomes one of the pioneers of astronomy, and he discovers that the Earth is not a still body around which the sun revolves. This novel idea is unsettling to the Church at the time and because Galileo is punished by the Church, he had to withdraw this idea and never speak of it publicly.  (McGraw-Hill Open Court, 2002)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.