Thursday, February 20, 2014

Learning Objectives:

I can…

• Identify characterizations of a character in a novel
• Express how a character changes through a novel
• Correctly write a topic sentence
• Make a prediction about a novel using textual evidence.

Article of the Week due tomorrow...do you have it?

Reading Log #24 due on Monday

CW/HW Check: Monologue and Letter (in the grade book)

New Seats...

Opening:

1. Share your monologue by one of the kids in Tent D.

2. Share your letter to Mr. Sir or Mr. Pendanski.

3. You will submit your Class Notebook next Tuesday prior to the Benchmark Testing

Work Period:

4. Use the novel Holes, your notes on Stanley, and your bookmark to fill in the table on pg. 231. 

• You may work with your group on this.  Consider a jigsaw if you trust one another to get the work done well.

5. Write a topic sentence about Stanley’s character up to Ch. 10 put it in #2 on pg. 232.  Try using parallel structure in your topic sentence.

6. Share your topic sentences with a partner.  Share with the entire classroom on a sentence strip.

7. Read the Literary Term box and write your own definition for Textual Evidence under the box.

8. Discuss the definition as a class.

What's the difference between the following:

• quotations?
• summaries?
• paraphrases?

Closing:

9. Do the quickwrite #3 on pg. 232. Predict how Stanley will change while he is at camp.

a.     Remember M.E.A.L.

b.     Use textual evidence.

Homework: Read Ch. 17-18. (pages 77-82!) and complete your Article of the Week questions.