Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• How do I write a reflective paragraph about the setting of a personal incident.
• How can I revise my writing by including compound sentences?

Warm-Up:
New Partners and Places
Turn in your Packet
Tonight: Read 18-19 - No Questions. 
(Two New Entries: Setting, Plot, Conflict, Character)

1. What is the plot?  What are the subplots?  How do you know?

2. Remember what Inferencing is: Drawing on evidence to come to a conclusion.  Determine something based on evidence.  Jump to a conclusion based on a set of facts.

With your partner, pick a passage to reread.  Create an enlarged DEJ entry on the paper I give to you.

• Inference #1: Page 35 "When my mother left..." to the bottom of the page  "...but it felt true."

• Inference #2: Page 61 "'Where's your mother?'" to "Was that why she left?" on page 62.

• Inference #3: The bottom of page 80 "'So what has your father told you about me?'" to the bottom of 83 "I sounded just like Phoebe."

• Inference #4: Page 95: "'Your father was over there yesterday.'" to middle of 97 "...I wished I could take it back." and the last paragraph on 99.

Work Period:3. Get online to SBD 2.7  
A Tree of One's Own: Setting

4. Reread the excerpt from Chapter 16 aloud and help me fill out the graphic organizer online.

• "Outside the hospital I heard a warbling..." to "...The tree did not sing."

5. Consider a setting in your own life.  

CN: 4/5: Setting

• Recreate the chart you see for #2 online.
• Fill in the details in the graphic organizer.

• Create a sketch of the setting you are thinking of, or of Salamanca's Singing Tree (See #3 for more instructions.)

6. Under your Graphic Organizer - create two visuals that help you explore the following terms:

• A. Setting
• B. Commentary

7. Check for Understanding on both terms.

8. How does Salamanca's tree (external) affect her internal feelings?  

Closing:

9. Writing Prompt: How does the setting you chose affect your internal feelings when you think of it?  Write a paragraph about your setting.

• See the Expository Writing Prompt