Monday, September 23, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• To review personal responses to poetry
• To examine a real-life hero in a nonprint text
• To discover how a character meets and triumphs over challenges.

Opening:

1. Share personal responses to "Moco-Limping" in your small groups (HW Stamp)

• Did the theme of "Moco-Limping" come through in your personal response?

2. Read the top of page 14 for context.

3. How is "reading" a film similar and different to reading a print text?

Work Period:

4. After each segment, discuss and take notes in your graphic organizer.

• Write in small print
• Check for understanding 

Closing:

5. No matter where we stop watching:

• Create a statement that directly states the nature of the challenge that Homer faces in October Sky.