Repair the Missing Timeline
A witness timeline is missing verbs and times. Students repair it using only the five core irregular past verbs (went, saw, took, left, found) and plain time language (yesterday, at, before, after, minutes later), and label each line exact, relative, or unknown. The exact time the folder went into the secure drop box stays unknown.
Grammar target
Five core irregular past verbs — went, saw, took, left, found; time language yesterday, at, before, after, minutes later; label a time as exact, relative, or unknown.
Objective
Students can repair a missing timeline with the five core irregular past verbs and correctly label each time reference as exact, relative, or unknown.
Where this lesson sits
Lesson 2 of 3 in the Reconstruct arc. Teach the lessons in order across 3 class periods.
- RC-01 · Put the Events in Order
- RC-02 · Repair the Missing Timeline (this lesson)
- RC-03 · Reconstruct the Case
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