Wednesday, October 29

Objective: By the end of class, students will examine literary devices (POV and inferencing) in short fiction in order to improve literal and interpretive reading comprehension skills and make real world connections


DO NOW
Write down in notebooks:

Bias = prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.


Direct Instruction

Narrative = Story
Perspective = Viewpoint

How we view things as individuals is always opinionated and sometimes biased. Therefore, although first person POV may seem reliable because it is first hand, it is also only one person's view and it may not always be the whole truth.



Review PPT examples to determine POV. 

It's all how you look at it - this is interesting to determine reliability of 1st person

Perspective self - quiz - this is interesting to understand the reliability of 1st person

Guided

Write down vocabulary words from page 374 in notebooks

write a sentence for each vocab word using context clues

Independent

Complete questions on narrative perspective handout. Underline / annotate to prove how you determined perspective.

Closure. / check for understanding

Exit Pass

Rewrite the BIAS paragraph to be not biased.