Thursday, December 10, 2015

Friday, December 11 - Into Thin Air

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze informational text in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Explain what Point Of View or Narrative Perspective means.  And then explain how does the POV affect your interpretation of the information? What do you know if it is first person compared to third? 

Direct Instruction

Read / analyze pages . BE SURE to ANNOTATE AS YOU READ. The sidebars will also help you find answers below so you should answer them and refer to them as you answer questions below.

1. MOOD words. Identify at least two different paragraphs that create either a hopeful or ominous, hopeless mood. List the words that give you this feeling.
2. POV - Where knowing someone else's thoughts or feelings might change the way we understand what happened. 
3. STYLE - Any change in the author's style of writing. Why might he do this?
4. IRONY - Any more examples of situational irony.
5. CAUSE /EFFECT  - Identify at least two more examples of cause / effect . What might have happened differently?

Guided / Independent

Write up or type up answer to the above questions. if you annotated well, it should be easy!

View Documentary and write down questions as you watch.

Check for Understanding

Review answers to above questions.

Closure

Review plot of the events of this tragic Mt Everest climb. Discuss possible CRQ questions.

Exit PAss


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