Saturday, September 15, 2012

"Hearts & Hands" - Essay Structure - Homonyms and vocab

Bell Ringers:
Bell Ringer
9/17
Circle the context clues in the sentence.  Select the correct answer
1. He had financial issues, so he decided to make his own money.  He was sent off to Leavenworth for seven years for COUNTERFEITING.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages
9/18
2.Out of the WARRENS in the wall, tiny little robot mice darted.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages

9/19.
3. Still farther over, their images burned on the wood in one TITANIC instant.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages

9/20
4. The the leave of tremulous palm trees swayed in the cold wind.
A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages

9/21
5. In the kitchen, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a PSYCHOPATHIC rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which, eaten by the fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!

A. Having great power B. With danger mental disorder C. Making illegal imitations D.Trembling; quivering  E. Maze like passages




Monday, 9/17 AND Tuesday, 9/18

Goals:
A. Students will review strategies for constructing meaning
B. Students will discuss inferences, conclusions, comprehension/ text relationships, comparing and contrasting ideas and recognizing the writer's purpose.\
C. Essentially, students will realize that they are like detectives when they are reading, and these tools will help them find the essential clues needed for analysis and comprehension.

*Pre-reading introduction to author on page 262-263
1. Students will read "Hearts and Hands" on page 264  of their text.
2. Students will be introduced to IRONY and SURPRISE endings3. Students will make predictions about the story
4. Students will discuss literary terms:  Plot elements, irony, tone, mood, foreshadowing
5. Students will discuss and analyze the outcome of the story
6. Students will Answer questions on page 265
7. students WILL CONTINUE TO DISCUSS AND APPLY LITERARY TERMS TO READING AS THEY MAKE PREDICTIONS AND INFERENCES THROUGHOUT THE TEXT
8. Students will stop mid-story and make predictions about the characters.  (LINK for story prediction chart)
They will use a three column chart:
PREDICTION     REASON     ACTUAL OUTCOME
9. STUDENTS WILL CONTINUE TO READ AND DISCUSS THE STORY AND THEN FILL IN actual outcome SECTION OF THEIR CHART.
10. Students will complete a plot structure worksheet

Closure:
use EACH DAILY bell ringer TERM IN A COMPLETE SENTENCE.  CIRCLE YOUR CONTEXT CLUES

Standards:
R11.B.1: Understand components within and between texts.
Understand fiction appropriate to grade level.
R11.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level.
-Analyze inferences and draw conclusions based on text
-Analyze the effectiveness of figurative language

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