Objective: By the end of class, student will be assessed on their ability to identify TOPIC and MAIN IDEA as well as summarize, analyze and evaluate in order to improve reading comprehension and writing skills.
DO NOW
Take out the passage from yesterday about African Heritage in Chicago. We reviewed and answered together almost all of the questions below. Do your best.
Direct Instruction
Use a NEO to to answer the following questions.
1. What is the TOPIC of the passage?
2. What is the GENRE of the PASSAGE?
3. Summarize the passage.
4. What is the MAIN IDEA of the passage?
5. List five examples from the passage that support the main idea.
6. Analyze the two cultural strengths of the main character. (be sure to put in proper format - restate, explain, quote, conclude).
7. Explain his motivation for establishing a Nigerian support group.
8. Analyze the importance of maintaining culture while integrating into American society. (Be sure to format like # 6).
9. Explain the method that Fidelis Umeh plans to use in his support group to ensure everlasting culture while blending with American society and then evaluate it. ( remember what evaluate means).
Guided / Independent
When complete, you may get google chrome book and begin to research the history of Elizabethan England and the Roman Empire in 44b.c in order to prepare to read excerpts of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Here are some links to video clips (use headphones).
roman empire clips
elizabethan england
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