Monday, November 4, 2013

Learning Focus:
I can…

• compare details about a fictional society to those of a real society
• use compare/contrast organizational structure in writing

A. Change Seats

B. Turn in Independent Reading #10

Opening:
1. In your journal, write down three questions that nag at you about Chapters 1-3 in The Giver.

2. Share and respond to one another's questions in your small groups.

3. Discuss lingering questions as a large group.


Work Period:
4. Review the details you collected on page 68 - what are the key parallel differences between the Community and our society?

• How Families are Created
• How Birthdays are Celebrated

5. Review page 69 - describe in your group the two ways you can organize a compare/contrast paragraph.

• subject-by-subject
• feature-by-feature

6. Group Created Paragraph

• What's our topic sentence?

Closing:
7. By Thursday, read through Chapter 5 and complete page 70.