9/28/09-10/5/09

Author and Reader Purpose

What is the text about? What is the purpose? Who is the audience? What is your purpose? Will this text help you? (3.1.1; 2.3.2)

Strategies: Predict; Reading Rate;

Involvement: highlight and question;

Visualize: sketch; Clarify: ideas/vocabulary;

Connect: self, class, world;

Question;

Evaluate

http://whatelse.pbworks.com/MOTT-Directions

http://whatelse.pbworks.com/Reading-Strategies

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Tues 9/29

MOTT Reading

read 15 minutes and respond 5 minutes

What did I learn? (in words and graphics)

How does this relate to me?

How does this help me understand the world?

Project Information

Applying Strategies

Dorothea Lange: Photogaphy in Action Reading -- Reading for Photo info

Junior Scholastic, p. 18+

Answer these questions with facts from the story.

1. How is photography related to reading and writing?

2. How did photography drive the life of Dorothea Lange?

3. Evaluate Dorothea Lange’s decision to become a photographer.

4. How would Dorothea Lange be an inspiration to someone else?

Wed 9/30 and Thurs 10/1: Writing Pilot

Friday 10/2

Memorial

Mon 10/5
MOTT Reading
read 15 minutes and respond 5 minutes
Project Information, Goals, Homework

Applying Strategies: Dorothea Lange: how to take cornell notes in preparation for MOTT paper



Tues 10/6
MOTT Reading
read 15 minutes and respond 5 minutes
Project Information and Homework


Applying Strategies:
Dorothea Lange: how to take cornell notes in preparation for MOTT paper

Summarize
3 most important events
-- then why important and how connected to whole article

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EALR 1: The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.4.3 Apply different reading rates to match text.

EALR 2: The student understands the meaning of what is read

2.1.7 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies for informational and technical materials, complex narratives, and expositions: determine importance and summarize text. W

Component 2.2 Understand and apply knowledge of text components to comprehend text.

2.2.2 Apply understanding of complex organizational features of printed text and electronic sources. W

Component 2.3 Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text.

Component 3.2 Read to perform a task.

EALR 4: The student sets goals and evaluates progress to improve reading.