Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Learning Focus:
I can...

• understand characterization
• recognize the relationship between choice and character

Opening:

1. Share your narrative about a significance choice with a partner.

2. Introduce "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes" - this is a Novel Excerpt.  What does that mean?

3. Share Reading of the text.

Work Period:

4. Work in small groups and complete the following:

Chunk 1: Feelings about Baseball:

• Mark the text by highlighting or underlining words in the first three paragraphs that indicate how the narrator feels about playing baseball.
• Summarize the narrator's feelings about baseball in the "My Notes" section on page 11.

Chunk 2: Choices and Predictions

• Write in the "My Notes" section the CHOICE made by each of the three characters in the scene
• Coach
• Ronnie Callendar
• Cindy

Chunk 3: Feelings about Choice

• Mark the WORDS that show how the narrator feels
• Circle the choices she makes during the rest of the season.
• Write a REACTION to the narrator's choices in the "My Notes" section

Closing:

5. Discussion:

• What do we know about the narrator after this close reading?
• What is the decision from each character's perspective?
• Who controls the choices made?
• How do people make choices internally, as well as externally?

Homework: Annotated Bibliography