10/6/09 - 10/13/09

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 10/6

MOTT Reading
read 15 minutes and respond 5 minutes (6 Boxes)
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: how to take cornell notes in sections with gist statements in preparation for MOTT paper


Wed 10/7 interruption in internet Thurs 10/8
MOTT Reading
read 15 minutes and respond 5 minutes
Write a 20 word gist statement for what read today, and for the whole book so far
Project Information
Lange: Cornell Notes


Thursday 10/8
Lange: Cornell Notes/Gist Statements
Applying Strategies
Dorothea Lange: Photogaphy in Action Reading -- Reading for Photo info
Junior Scholastic, p. 18+

Friday 10/9
MOTT Reading
read 10 minutes

Lange: Cornell Notes/Gist Statements
Applying Strategies
Dorothea Lange: Photogaphy in Action Reading -- Reading for Photo info
Junior Scholastic, p. 18+
Continue questions for Lange article
Assignment

Gist Statements must contain the three main ideas
Write and share a summary of the story: 3 main events; why important; how connected to whole article


Answer these questions with facts from the story.
1. How is photography related to reading and writing? Review
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?

Theme: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
What is the overall theme (message/main idea/lesson) learned from the article with support from the text?


Mon 10/12 No School Tues 10/13 MOTT Reading
read 15 minutes and respond 5 minutes
NWEA Testing

If time:
Write and share a summary of the story: 3 main events; why important; how connected to whole article


Answer these questions with facts from the story.
1. How is photography related to reading and writing? Review
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?

Theme: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
What is the overall theme (message/main idea/lesson) learned from the article with support from the text?

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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.