Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction and practice new vocabulary in order to improve reading comprehension skills necessary in real world scenerios.
DO NOW
Take your notebook and go to the WALL. Copy the definitions for literary terms in the back of book - leave yourself at least 10 pages for definitions. You will continue to add throughout semester.
Direct Instruction
Look at literary terms in soft holt reader page 3- review plot structure and its components.
Read introduction to The Love Letter by Jack Finney page 30 soft holt reader.
Guided
Read to page 36 0r 37 of Love Letter. Annotate as we read.
Independent
Continue to read to page 40 -41 and annotate as you read. Be sure to circle any words you do not know. Answer all sidebars.
Use a dictionary to define at least 5 words from Love Letter in your notebook.
On a separate piece of paper, answer the following:
1. Identify at least three moments of foreshadowing through page 40.
2. How does Jack Finney effectively use flashbacks to create suspense in the Love Letter?
3. Summerize story through page 40. Who / what/ when/ where
why.
Closure
Review sidebars and summarize story to date.
Exit Pass
Write a sentence using one of the vocabulary words that you looked up. Be sure to use context clues.
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