TODAY'S LESSON AND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Review terms for Thursday's quiz
reminder about rubrics for teacher assistant
MAKE ENGLISH CLASS COZY AND WARM. BRING MUG AND HOT CHOCOLATE!
Homework assignment:
1) Using the ReadWriteThink template, make a careful "essay map" for Essay 5. Please email your essay map to me tonight. (If you are unsure whether the email went through, you can always print it out and bring it to class tomorrow.)
2) Read TOTC, Ch. 2, "The Mail", and do the usual mindful-reader tasks: one highlight on each page, one brief summary at the bottom of each page, and one 3-sentence reflection on every odd-numbered page. As usual, I will expect to see scholarly work in your books tomorrow.
Lesson topics and objectives:
TOPICS:
- Assonance
- Restating, describing, and interpreting as you read
Steps to reaching the objective(s):
- Period 1
- Connection to prior learning: Have you talked about making music with your writing in other classes?
- Definition and discussion about assonance.
- Look for some examples in TOTC
- Exit ticket: TRY IT!
- Period 2
- Connection: Did teachers read aloud and think aloud in earlier grades?
- Read aloud and think aloud from TOTC
- Exit ticket: Why is it helpful to hear a teacher think aloud as he reads?
