Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Learning Objective and Key Questions:

• What are the key skills and knowledge I need to focus on for this unit?

• How does our novel develop the theme "Light in the Darkness"?
• What is an allegory and how can an allegory develop a theme?

Please have your Double Entry Journal for the Literature Circle open during your group's discussion.  I'd like to stamp it.



Opening:
Review: What is our Embedded Assessment and what are the expectations for your presentation at the end of this unit of study?

1. Reread "Terrible Things" with your partner.

Fill in the graphic organizer (#4) in Activity 3.5.

2. What are the characteristics of fluent and dramatic reading?

3.  In your literature circle group, you will be assigned a chunk.  Complete #5-7.  Take 10 minutes to mark the text and rehearse.

• Pauses
• Emphasis
• Volume
• Tone

Let me know when you are ready and I'll pair you with another group.

4. Share your dramatic interpretation of your passage.


With your partner, respond to #8.

Closing:

5. Homework: 
Class Notebook: 3/22: Terrible Things Theme

• Write a paragraph explaining how the theme of Bunting's work is similar in theme to Wiesel's excerpt and Neimoller's poem.