Monday, December 2, 2013

Learning Objectives:
I can...

• interact with the text by questioning and annotating it
• participate in a Socratic Seminar
• read aloud and use annotation strategies

Hand in:

• Reader's Notebook with Reading Log #13 and Reading Log E.C.

Hand out:

• Reading Log #12
• Reading Log #14
• Article of the Week 1
• Article of the Week 2

Opening:

1. Hand back Article of the Week #1 Graded.

• Comments on Scoring and your evidence for learning and understanding

2. Discuss Article of the Week #2 "India Launches First Mission to Mars"

• How do you know it is Informational?
• Fiction has Story Elements (characters, setting, problem/solution, plot)
• Nonfiction has a variety of organizational structures
• Cause and Effect
• Sequence
• Problem/Solution
• Description
• Compare and Contrast
• Proposition and Support 

• How do Signal Words Help?
• What is the topic?
• What do you predict will be the organizational structure?

Work Period:
3. Identify the key questions you have about The Giver so far (through Chapter 17)

• Use your post-its to review your questions and comments

4. In your small groups, have a 15 minute text-based discussion

• What questions do you have about the novel thus far?
• What passages made you pause and think?
• What confused you about the text?
• Think about:
• How is Jonas changing?
• What choices has Jonas made?
• What steps in the hero's journey are present and WHERE?

Closing:

5. Read aloud: Chapter 18 with 3 Large Post-Its and Four Small

Large Post-Its

• One Question for the text
• One Personal Response to the text
• One Interpretation of the text

Small Post-Its

• Note at least four words that are italicized.  Decide why they are italicized and include that information on the small sticky notes.