Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze informational text (magazine article) for text structure, narrative perspective and mood in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Write this down in notebooks:
1. Into Thin Air is written in FIRST PERSON POV (so it has some BIAS).
2. It has CAUSE/ EFFECT text structure. ( every time a decision is made, there are one or more effects of that decision.
3. It has a significant amount of SITUATIONAL IRONY (opposite happens of what you expect).
Direct / Guided
Read together pages -218-222 soft holt reader and complete sidebars along the way.
Independent
1. How does POV affect your interpretation of this article?
2. Explain one event that caused a specific effect.(maybe Harris helping Kraukauer with oxygen tank). What might have happened differently?
3. What was ironic about the weather that day?
4. Pick a sentence that we read that shows the author's style is Formal. Then rewrite it in a more informal style that is shorter and simpler to read / understand.
5. Identify a few sentences that make you feel anxious. Wha words make you feel that way?
View documentary. Write down 3 questions you have about Mt. Everest and climbing it.
Check for understanding
Review sidebars through page - 222
Closure
Discuss the Questions generated by students and plan to research the answers on Friday.
Exit Pass
These climbers risk everything for the chance to accomplish something very few people in the world ever have - standing on the "top of the world." What would inspire you risk everything?
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