Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Thursday, November 14 - Essential Information, main idea and style

Objective: By the end of class, students will  analyze informational text in order to synthesize across different sources.

DO NOW

Define - 1. inadvertently 2. Essential 3. Non essential 4. Synthesize

Direct Instruction

view reconstruction of iceman mummy face

Read the third article pages 331-333 about the Iceman - annotate as you read. Complete all side bars.

Independent

Complete the following tasks for each article to be collected :

1. Summarize the article in 3-5 sentences

2. List any vocabulary words you do not know from this article

3. What is the MAIN IDEA of this article? We know the TOPIC is the ICEMAN mummy found in the Alps in 1991 - but was is this article telling you most about him?

4.In paragraph form,  analyze the author's style of writing this article.  Are the sentences long or  short? Is the vocabulary difficult? Are there many descriptive words creating imagery? Are word choices and combinations simple or complex? What is the tone? (Is it matter of fact, or forceful, or surprised, or amazed?/ - how do you know).

Exit PAss

list the main ideas from each of the three articles

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