Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Learning Objectives:
I can...

• identify choices made daily
• review a draft of a response about a significant choice
• interpret a poem about choice
• develop vocabulary through diffusing
• understand that choices have consequences

Opening:
1. Share your list of choices and your draft with a partner while I come around with a stamp.

2. Put your draft to the side until later in the class, when you will add a reflection.

Work Period:
3. Predict based on the Poem's Title: "The Road Not Taken"

4. Shared reading: Circle or highlight unfamiliar words

5. What do you gather about the meaning of the poem from the rhymes?

6. In your journal, write down four words and their definitions.

• rhyme scheme: a consistent pattern of rhyme throughout a poem
• diction: word choice
• denotation: the dictionary definition of a word
• connotation: the suggested or implied meanings or emotions associated with words

7. Make a list of five words you feel are most difficult to understand.

• what is each word's connotations, or "suggested or implied meanings or emotions associated" with it?
• what is a good synonym you can use to substitute it with?

8. Diffuse the text by substituting in familiar words for those that are unfamiliar.


Closing:
9. Discuss the poem's meaning

10. Revisit your "choice" draft from last night.

• add a reflection paragraph to the end, describing what you feel are the lasting consequences of the choice you described.