Monday, November 11, 2013

Tuesday, November 12 - informational Text

Objective: By the end of class, students will determine essential and non-essential information from informational text and identify topic and main idea in order to ultimately synthesize information.

DO NOW

Read the objective for the day and try to rewrite it in your own words. List any vocabulary words with which you are unfamiliar.


Direct Instruction

Get soft holt readers. Together read introduction to the Iceman mummy - page - 324

main idea video

View iceman from alps

Guided

Read the first articles pages 325-327 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 first article

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

What are the biggest differences that you notice between the two articles? The first is from the internet - the second from a magazine)







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