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Monday, October 29, 2007

Wednesday 10.25 - Monday 10.29

Text #3: "Victor" by James Howe

Reading/Critical Thinking Objectives:
  • Identify basic elements of the plot (beginning, middle, end)
  • Identify setting.
  • Introduce foreshadowing through characterization and setting.
  • Read for details/answer comprehension questions; teacher model re-reading techniques for context clues.
  • Make inferences based on common knowledge as well as on repetive details in the text.
  • Introduce lexical textual analysis as a basic building block of understanding imagery.
  • Point View: class discussion. Who is telling the story? How would the story change if someone else would tell the story? Is it a first person narrative or an omniscient author?

Writing Objectives/Collaborative Learning:

  • Class creates a sun characterization chart of main character. Students use this opportunity to collaborate with each other and the teacher and learn how organize information graphically.
  • Creative writing: students re-write the story from another character's point of view. They have to conform to the same basic plot and setting and create at least one dialogue.

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