Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Learning Objectives:

• Learn and apply the skill of summarizing to text being read
• Write and present a summary to a small group

UIL Updates (Practices)

Opening:

1. Review your summary.  

• CN: 4/20: Theme in UP! 

Below your summary, write an paragraph explaining how the literary element you focused on (setting, plot or character) played a role in your understanding of a theme in the film.

• Travel
• Promises
• Memories
• What we value
• ?

Include:

• A topic sentence that introduces a theme in Up!
• Include supporting details and commentary about the film.
• Make a connection between a literary element and the theme - use the literary term in your paragraph.
• Use transitions and proper verb tenses and pronoun agreement.

Share a few aloud.

Work Period:

2. Class Notebook: 4/20: Theme

• Create a thinking map that helps you define the concept: theme

3. Now Consider Walk Two Moons...

• What are some themes emerging in the novel?

4/20: Themes in Walk Two Moons
4. Jigsaw:

• Your group will be assigned a chapter (26-29)
• Review the chapter and take notes on Setting, Plot and/or Character in your Chapter.
• Present your findings in a Graphic Organizer
• Take notes as others present.

Writing Prompt:

Write a summary of your literary element and how you think the author, Sharon Creech, may be using that literary element in developing a theme in Walk Two Moons.  

Closing:

Read Chapters 30-32 tonight (Two new entries)

4/21: Internal and External Forces

• Draw a picture of Carl Fredrickson's Head

• Add in details that explore his internal and external forces.
• Whenever there is an internal or external force at play, there is usually a conflict in the film.

What conflicts occur because of his internal and external forces?

Now draw a smiley face with long, straight hair (Salamanca) and one with curly hair (Phoebe).

• Add details that explore each girl's internal and external conflicts. (Add at least one force inside and outside of each face.)