Digital Agenda: Thursday, 2/13 and Friday, 2/14!

Do Now (10 mins):

First, write you homework in your Agenda.

1. Finish 5 step lesson on TeenBiz for "Climbing Kilimanjaro"

Write the answer on p. 13L of your Interactive Notebook

What do you already know about narrative writing?

Narrative writing is fiction/nonfiction.  A time I've read a narrative is when I read ______________.  I've written a narrative when I wrote __________________________.

Objectives:

Students will...

write a brief narrative in response to a prompt for the narrative assessment. determine the theme and explain how it is portrayed through details by citing text from ch. 1-6 with 75% accuracy. analyze the impact of specific word choice on the meaning and tone of the passage by annotating and defining new words in notebook Glossary.

Common Core Standards

Reading Literature, 6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Reading Literature, 6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Reading Literature, 6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone

Whole Class:

Narrative Cold Write (20 minutes)

Prompt: Describe how you pend your time after school on a typical day of your life.  Maybe you go home and do your homework or chores you've been assigned.  Maybe you hang out tiwth firends or play video games.  Explain to someone the things you usually do afer school and before going to sleep.  Be sure to include enough details so your reader can understand how you spend after school time.

Direct Station:

Reading Literature, 6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Reading Literature, 6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Reading Literature, 6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone

What is imagination? How can imagination help us in our day-to-day lives? 

Lesson 6:

Freak the Mighty, Ch. 6 Up until the end of chapter 6, how do Grim and Gram feel about Max?  How do you know?  Use information from the text to support your answer.

Independent:

Common Core Standards

Reading Informational Text, 6.2: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgements.

1. If you finish early, follow this link to teenbiz3000.com
2. Type your username and password
3. Open the article "Climbing Kilimanjaro".
4. Read & Listen to the Vocabulary
5. As you read each paragraph, STOP and fill in at least 1 sentence in the SETTING THE PURPOSE box.  This WILL be copy and pasted into your Thought Question, and will be graded.  
6. On the Thought Question, remember to click on "Include in Your Answer" so you can get a 3 or 4 score.
7. Next, do the Math Activities and check your grades on Pinnacle!

Exit Ticket:  

What are some ways that your annotations helped you today?  How can you improve your annotations to better help your reading comprehension?

Annotations helped me to  ___________________________________ today.  I can improve my annotations by ________________________________.  Next time I annotate, I will ____________________________.