Essential Question: What makes someone a good
reader and writer?
1. Opening Assignment: Create a storyboard of your book. To do this, on paper or on a document, create boxes that will correspond to your book pages. You must have a total of 6 boxes (minimum). Make a rough sketch of what will be on each page (words and pictures).
2. Finish annotating "Maya Angelou on Writing."
3. Complete Root Words handout.
4. Begin KWL Chart for Malcolm X. Find out more about the subject of "Learning to Read." Link to Malcolm X Website
5. Read "Learning to Read." While reading ask questions as you read. You need to ask at least 10 questions about what you read as you read. Label each of your questions according to Bloom's Taxonomy.
6. Share your questions with a partner. You will answer your partner's question, he/she will answer your questions.
7. Finish KWL Chart.
8. Begin reading "Eleven." Ask questions of the story as you read. You must have 6 questions, each question must come from each of the 6 levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Therefore, you need one questions addressing, Knowledge, one question addressing Comprehension, and so on and so forth.
9. Closure: In your journal respond personally to the story. What did you think about the story line? Did you like the characters? Why or why not? What did the story make you think of? Don't analyze the story; simply respond to the story.
reader and writer?
1. Opening Assignment: Create a storyboard of your book. To do this, on paper or on a document, create boxes that will correspond to your book pages. You must have a total of 6 boxes (minimum). Make a rough sketch of what will be on each page (words and pictures).
2. Finish annotating "Maya Angelou on Writing."
3. Complete Root Words handout.
4. Begin KWL Chart for Malcolm X. Find out more about the subject of "Learning to Read." Link to Malcolm X Website
5. Read "Learning to Read." While reading ask questions as you read. You need to ask at least 10 questions about what you read as you read. Label each of your questions according to Bloom's Taxonomy.
6. Share your questions with a partner. You will answer your partner's question, he/she will answer your questions.
7. Finish KWL Chart.
8. Begin reading "Eleven." Ask questions of the story as you read. You must have 6 questions, each question must come from each of the 6 levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Therefore, you need one questions addressing, Knowledge, one question addressing Comprehension, and so on and so forth.
9. Closure: In your journal respond personally to the story. What did you think about the story line? Did you like the characters? Why or why not? What did the story make you think of? Don't analyze the story; simply respond to the story.