Essential Questions:
1. Who am I as a reader, writer, student, and person?
2. What habits of mind does it take to succeed in school?
3. What have people said over time about the value of reading and writing?
4. What makes someone a good reader, writer, and overall good student?
A. Opening Assignment: Review of Literary Terms
Provide the definition and an example of the following words:
1. Allegory
2. Alliteration
3. Allusion
1st Period will begin here.
B. Finish completing the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
4th Period will finish here.
C. Read "Learning to Read" in chunks, asking questions about what we read as we go.
Chunk 1: Write a KNOWLEDGE question.
Chunk 2: Write a COMPREHENSION question.
Chunk 3: Write an APPLICATION question.
Chunk 4: Write an ANALYSIS question.
Chunk 5: Write a SYNTHESIS question.
Chunk 6: Write an EVALUATION question.
D. Review questions by having a peer answer them.
E. Fill in last column of the KWL Chart.
5th period and 7th period will begin here.
F. Read "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros.
G. Assign Personal Response Paper.H. Work on creating questions about "Eleven."
I. Closing: Journal Entry 6
Answer the essential questions.
1. Who am I as a reader, writer, student, and person?
2. What habits of mind does it take to succeed in school?
3. What have people said over time about the value of reading and writing?
4. What makes someone a good reader, writer, and overall good student?
A. Opening Assignment: Review of Literary Terms
Provide the definition and an example of the following words:
1. Allegory
2. Alliteration
3. Allusion
1st Period will begin here.
B. Finish completing the first 3 columns of the Malcolm X KWL Chart.
4th Period will finish here.
C. Read "Learning to Read" in chunks, asking questions about what we read as we go.
Chunk 1: Write a KNOWLEDGE question.
Chunk 2: Write a COMPREHENSION question.
Chunk 3: Write an APPLICATION question.
Chunk 4: Write an ANALYSIS question.
Chunk 5: Write a SYNTHESIS question.
Chunk 6: Write an EVALUATION question.
D. Review questions by having a peer answer them.
E. Fill in last column of the KWL Chart.
5th period and 7th period will begin here.
F. Read "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros.
G. Assign Personal Response Paper.H. Work on creating questions about "Eleven."
I. Closing: Journal Entry 6
Answer the essential questions.