03/22/10 - 03/29/10

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/Reading-Strategies

Poetry
Theme  Evaluate
CRTs; COEs
Author purpose; compare/contrast

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3/22 Poetry (338+; 76 LOLWB)  Mother To Son
3/23 Reader Purpose; Author Purpose; Intro Speech to the Young
3/23 Speech to the Young
3/24 Write own Advice poem
3/25 TEST COE (collection of evidence)
3/26 TEST
3/29 Charge of the Light Brigrade

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LC03 Inference   
LA07 Cause & Effect
LA06 Compare / Contrast   
LT08 Author’s Purpose


2.3.2 Analyze and evaluate informational materials for relevance in meeting a specific purpose.
·      Examine information from a variety of sources, select appropriate information based on purpose, and defend selection citing evidence from text.

Poetry: How do we talk about it? How does poetry help us understand all text? How does poetry help us become better readers and writers?

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RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=overview_p1_u2&u=2

Langston Hughes
Mother to Son
Advice about facing life's challenges

Gwendolyn Brooks
Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress-Toward
A celebration of triumph over adversity

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
A moving tribute to brave soldiers

Charles Kuralt
Mr. Misenheimer's Garden
The discovery of a special place and a special man

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EALR 2: The student understands the meaning of what is read
2.1.5 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies for informational and technical materials, complex narratives, and expositions: predict and infer. W  infer
Component 2.3  Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text. 2.3.1 Analyze informational/expository text and literary/narrative text for similarities and differences and cause and effect relationships. W
·      Compare and contrast information from multiple sources to gain a broader understanding of a topic (e.g., compare and contrast a variety of ecosystems using text-based evidence).
·      Compare and contrast how characters react to the same event using text-based evidence.

Component 2.4  Think critically and analyze author’s use of language, style, purpose, and perspective in literary and informational text.
2.4.2 Analyze author’s purpose and evaluate an author’s style of writing to influence different audiences.

2.4.6 Analyze treatment of concepts within, among, and beyond multiple texts. W

·      Compare and contrast treatments of similar concepts and themes within multiple texts

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