Focus: What are stories about (besides the plot)?
Objective: Students will identify universal topics in literature.
1. Independent reading.
2. Reading log (Analyze what you read using one of the three selection options.)
3. In small groups, we completed our character analysis posters and presented them to the class.
4. As a class, we read pages 24-35 of Speak, stopping to discuss important plot points and how the specific plot points can represent more universal topics that apply to everyone.
5. Writers Notebook #32
Homework: No homework.
Objective: Students will identify universal topics in literature.
1. Independent reading.
2. Reading log (Analyze what you read using one of the three selection options.)
3. In small groups, we completed our character analysis posters and presented them to the class.
4. As a class, we read pages 24-35 of Speak, stopping to discuss important plot points and how the specific plot points can represent more universal topics that apply to everyone.
5. Writers Notebook #32
Homework: No homework.