Thursday, September 19, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• To describe the essential skills and knowledge required in a future Assessment
• To examine characterization

HW Check: 81-83 and Class Notebook (5-6 descriptors of the EA)

Opening:

1. Guide me through the remainder of the EA

• What key verbs were in each step of the writing process?
• What ideas were there?

2. Create a thinking map of the EA in your Student Notebook underneath your HW from last night.

• Use the following verbs to guide your thinking:
• Create
• Identify
• Use
• Create
• Create
• Structure
• Use 
• Use

3. Summarize the EA in your Class Notebook under your thinking map.

4. Complete the "Before Reading" questions on page 44.

5. Discuss in your small groups.

6. Background information:

• Set in twelfth-century Korea
• In a rural village, Crane-man, named for one shriveled leg, takes in Tree-ear, a ten-year old orphan.  Tree-ear is named after a type of mushroom.
• Both are poor, but Crane-man teaches Tree-ear that "stealing and begging...made a man no better than a dog."

Work Period:

7. Chunk the Text as instructed.

8. Shared reading of Paragraphs 1-4: Predict what Tree-ear will tell Crane-man

9. What elements of folk literature are in this text so far?

10. Read chunk 2 and draw a visualization of the scene.  Include the jiggeh and Tree-ear's reactions to what he saw.

11. Shared reading through the end.

• Mark the text:
• Questions
• Characterization Notes:
• Action
• Dialogue
• Resolution

Closing:

12. After a review of the tale, complete the "After Reading" section on page 49.  Leave the Quickwrite for Friday.