Friday, April 29, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• How can SOAPSTone be an effective analysis tool for reading an non-fiction text?
• How does an author us his or her persuasive skills in writing?
• Can a reader's mind be changed based on an essay?

Your SpringBoard book is needed.  

Opening:
1. Would anyone like to read a poem aloud for the class today?  

2.  Share your Class Notebook Entry:
4/28: Just the facts, M'am

• "Write a paragraph summary of key facts you discovered in this article."

Work Period:

3. 10 minutes: With your seat partner, review SOAPSTone on page 146.  Join with the others in your Pod and work through the elements of SOAPSTone.

• Respond to the Question
• Provide Textual Evidence to support your response.

4. What is the author's POSITION on the topic?

5. Were you persuaded?  Write response to the author's position.

Class Notebook: 4/29: Eco-Response

• Write a reflective paragraph in response to this author's position.  What are you motivated to do in response to this article?  What beliefs have changed for you?  Are you "called to action"?  Why?

6. In the margins of the article, IDENTIFY evidence of the following:

• analogy
• quotation by an authority (a person in a position of knowledge or power)
• cause and effect

Which were most effective?  Why?

Closing:

7. What associations do you have with the word: America?

8. Turn to page 135 and make a prediction based on the title.  How do the connotations of certain words influence your feelings about the word?

9. Read and Mark the Text:

• ? = Question the Text 
• ! = Show interest in a passage
• * = Comment on the Text