Thursday, February 18, 2016

Thursday, Feb 18 - Into Thin Air

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze informational text in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Write this down in notebooks:

1. Into Thin Air is written in FIRST PERSON POV (so it has some BIAS).
2. It has CAUSE/ EFFECT text structure. ( every time a decision is made, there are one or more effects of that decision.
3. It has a significant amount of SITUATIONAL IRONY (opposite happens of what you expect). 

Direct Instruction

sandy pittman

everst rescue

Read introduction from the textbook on page - 

Read Into thin Air - soft holt READER = PAGES 58-

Guided / Independent

1. How does Point Of View affect your interpretation of this article?
2. Explain in detail three events that caused a specific effect. What might have happened differently?
3. What was ironic about the weather that day?
4. Identify a few sentences that make you feel anxious. What words make you feel that way? (these words establish the MOOD which changes throughout the article).

5. Explain the rescue mission plan and the decision to leave Namba and Beck Weathers and then evaluate it Do you think it was a sensible plan? What might you have done?).





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