Friday, March 4 - Inferencing and Notes from a Bottle

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

DO NOW

First five questions on Inferencing Handout.

Direct Instruction

Review all 18 questions / answers from Notes from a Bottle.

Guided / Independent

Notes from a Bottle Multiple Choice - 12 questions - 5 points each

CRQ - 20 points - 5 points each for restating, explaining, quoting, concluding. This is a shorter CRQ because you only have to refer to one story and only provide one example. 

Analyze the author's use of an allusion (you may just refer to one of the two) in "Notes from a Bottle" and explain what the reader should infer from it. Be specific.

RESTATE
EXPLAIN
QUOTE
CONCLUDE

When you are done, you may finish your INFERENCE handout that I return to you. If not completed in class, you may do for homework in addition to the ALLUSION handout.

Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work

Closure

Review to date and preview next week

Exit Pass