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.
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Are you a RISK TAKER? Do you play it safe or get excited by being daring and not knowing what might happen? What is the riskiest thing you ever did? ( it could be physical, emotional, financial, etc)
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
Read intro page 216 and prepare to consider the following:
1. Into Thin Air is written in FIRST PERSON POV (so it has some BIAS).
2. It has CAUSE/ EFFECT text structure.
3. It has a significant amount of SITUATIONAL IRONY.
4. The author's STYLE of writing is FORMAL, using longer, more complex sentences.
5. The MOOD (how the words make you, the reader, FEEL) changes throughout the article.
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.
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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