Thursday - November 19 - POV, Irony, Allusion

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze POV, irony and allusions in short fiction (journal entry format) in order to improve reading comprehension.

DO NOW

Keystone practice - POV

Direct Instruction

Read James Stevenson bio - Holt Text - page 378. Take notes.

Read the introduction to "Notes from a Bottle" - page 374.

Guided

Write down in your notebooks some thoughts and predictions about what happens in the story by considering the title and subtitle and the photo below.

Title:     NOTES FROM A BOTTLE 
Subtitle:   (A bottle containing the following notes was discovered on a mountainside on Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic)

message in a bottle

Consider Stevenson's biography when deciding the following:
1. Do you think POV will have a big impact on this story? Why or why not?
2. Stevenson wrote a lot of satires. So what type of figurative device might you find in this story?


Independent

Practice Figurative Language terms.

Review of the Keystone terms this week.

Check for Understanding

Individual and group student checks during independent work.

Closure

Review

Exit Pass

What are some types of figurative language?