Objective: By the end of class, students will make predictions, and inferences in short fiction in order to improve reading comprehension.
DO NOW
Use glossary in text book to define the following terms in your notebooks:
1. Dramatic Irony
2. Situational Irony
3. Direct Characterization
4. Indirect Characterization
Direct Instruction
C
an you predict what this story is going to be about by the title and background picture?
roald dahl in a minute
lamb to the slaughter
Guided
Read Lamb to the Slaughter together. Annotate for vocabulary and key information. information you want to highlight or underline includes:
1. Details about setting
2. Description of characters.
3. Any interesting events (plot).
4. Anything that is confusing or not clear.
Be sure to write in the margin WHY you underlined what you do. Otherwise, when you go back, you won't know what you are looking for. Use the annotation guide lines distributed last week to help you annotate.
Independent
Complete comprehensive questions
Begin the plot structure graphic organizer -
Check for understanding
Individual student checks during independent work.
Closure
Discuss how the setting affects the plot.
Exit Pass
How might things have been different if the setting was in a restaurant?
Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Walk around the room with your notebook and be sure to notice everything posted with an orange star. These are the things that should also be in your notebooks. Make sure they are. I will collect notebooks tomorrow for a notebook check.
Direct Instruction
Why is finding evidence important???
1. You must support your opinion with FACTS.
2. Your quotes should not be too long....and you should always have more of your own words than quote, however, without textual evidence, you have a very weak argument.
3. It is not plagerizing as long as it is in "quotation marks" and you explain it in your own words, using the quote to support what you claim.
Guided / Independent
Get a partner and take your copy of JANE'S BACK.
Get a set of FINDING EVIDENCE GEMS.
Cut the gems out.
Find evidence for each one in Jane' s Back.
Underline that evidence and glue the gem near it with an arrow to it.
Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Ensure that you have every definition on your literary terms sheet complete with an example from the text and turn in for final grade.
Direct Instruction
Read ACT 5 scenes 1 and 3 and 5 and 8
Guided / Independent
Review the text questions for Act 5.
Test tomorrow and Friday (both 1/2 days). Test will include identifying quotes (who said them and what do they mean and/or symbolize) and a constructed response. You will have a choice of 1/2 for the CRQ.
Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Matching terms and multiple choice for elements of FICTION
Direct Instruction
Review transitional words and phrases. Together write a summary for Jane's Back. For each sentence we will use a transitional word.
Guided
Handout and review together, the graphic organizer for a CRQ for Jane's Back. Keep the transitional words out for use in this piece of writing as well.
CRQ Question
Because Jane's Back is written in the Objective Point of View, explain how you used inferencing to determine who killed Marla. Use textual evidence to support your answer.
Independent
Complete the CRQ on own. Find the textual evidence and explain how it supports your idea and then add a concluding sentence.
Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze Drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Describe each apparition and what each tells Macbeth - 137-141. How does Macbeth feel after hearing the new prophecies for the future?
Direct Instruction
View film through Lady Macduff scene.
Independent
Answer text questions for Act 4 plus your choice - 3 of the In depth questions for the same Act.
Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction and POV in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Define the three following words and use each in a sentence:
1. Silhouette
2. Portly
3. Ravine
Direct Instruction
Apply the story, Jane's Back to a plot structure.
Guided
point of view / narrative perspective
Independent
From what Point of View or Narrative Perspective is JANE"S BACK told?
Using a NEO, first summarize the story of Jane's Back. That means, simply explain what happens in the story in your own words. Then, in a NEW paragraph:
Explain how the narrative perspective (third person objective) of Jane's Back allows the reader to infer what happens. What would the story be like if written from first person POV (jane's)???
Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze drama in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.
DO NOW
Add the following definitions to your literary terms sheet:
ASIDE
SYMBOLISM
VERBAL IRONY
FOIL
Direct Instruction / Guided
Read Act IV - scene 1 & 2
First witch
Second Witch
Third Witch
Macbeth
All three apparitions
Lennox
Lady Macduff
Ross
Son
Independent
View film through Act 4
Answer questions A-E - "Reviewing the text" - Act IV
