Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Learning Objectives:
I can...

• examine narrative openings
• identify a sequence of events
• identify vivid verbs and sensory language

Hand in:

• Reader's Notebook (-20%) with Reading Log #13
• Where are all the shelled pecans?

Share Grades...

Opening:
1. Pair and Share your Quickwrite from last night.

• Show of hands…
• Positive?
• Negative?
• Older siblings?
• Younger Siblings?
• Cousins or relatives?

Work Period:
2. Shared Reading of "Kira-Kira"
Look for:

• Sequencing
• Sensory Language
• Vivid Verbs
• Details
• An opening that sets the time, place, and point of view.

3. After reading, scan the first three paragraphs and highlight the narrator's attitude toward her sister.

• Write an adjective in the "My Notes" section that describes the relationship between the two sisters.
• How do these opening paragraphs establish the time, place, and point of view?

4. Read paragraph four again.  What sentence states the SIGNIFICANCE of the incident?  That is, why is this incident important?

5. Sequencing…# the events in the incident (The Middle)

Closing:

5. Shell those Pecans! and Independent Reading Tonight