Focus: How do beginnings set the stage?
Objective: Students will explain how specific details in a story set a tone and influence expectations.
1. Independent reading.
2. Reading log (Analyze what you read using one of the three selection options.)
3. Writers Notebook #30
4. As a class, we read through page 12 of Speak, stopping frequently to discuss our inferences about the setting, characters, and conflicts.
5. We each drew a word from the "destiny word" basket and brainstormed about the word using the first page of this sheet.
Homework: No homework.
Objective: Students will explain how specific details in a story set a tone and influence expectations.
1. Independent reading.
2. Reading log (Analyze what you read using one of the three selection options.)
3. Writers Notebook #30
4. As a class, we read through page 12 of Speak, stopping frequently to discuss our inferences about the setting, characters, and conflicts.
5. We each drew a word from the "destiny word" basket and brainstormed about the word using the first page of this sheet.
Homework: No homework.