Monday - Jan 4 - Period 6 - POV , Irony and inferencing

Objective: By the end of class students will analyze POV, situational irony and practice inferencing skills in order to improve reading comprehension.


DO NOW
Look on PAGE 375 in HOLT TEXT. Just from the title, the subtitle and the photo, what can yo INFER  the story is going to be about? It is also written in JOURNAL entries - therefore what POV is it?

Direct Instruction

vocabulary review prior to reading

 Guided

Read together - Notes from a bottle - pages 375 - 377.

Independent

Answer the critical thinking questions at the end of the story (page 379 - questions #2-8) in preparation for constructed response analyses tomorrow regarding this short story. Questions tomorrow will include point of view, inferencing and irony all related to Notes in a Bottle.

Check for Understanding / 

Review independently with students 

Exit Pass

How might you have reacted in a similar situation?

HW - complete point of view handout - be sure to cross out all dialogue before determining POV.