Day #14 - 9/22/14 - Unit 1 Lesson 8 Part I

Good Morning 6th Graders,
       I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Today is a ‘D’ day so we will go to gym. Please get yourself ready for block 1. Mrs. Sargent & I are looking forward to a very productive week. We want you to work hard and persevere through challenging assignments.  Don’t worry, we will be there to help you.
                              Thank you,
                            Mrs. Sargent & Mr. T
P2P: Look at the picture and write about what it means to you.

Quick Write: (5 minutes)

What is a Hero?

Possible Sentence Starters

I believe a hero is...     

I think this because...

An example of a person who is a hero is....

For Lesson 8 - Part I

• I can practice reading closely.
• I can get the gist of an excerpt of the text “The Hero’s Journey.”
• I can gather important details and determine the main idea of an excerpt of the text “The Hero’s Journey.”
• I can identify characteristics of a strong paragraph.

What words seem most important in these targets?

Give me a thumbs up if you understand the targets or thumbs down if you don’t.

Directions for Independent work:

Read Act 1: Separation (5 minutes)
As you read, remember the first time we read something, we are reading to _____________________________.

Now that you are oriented to the text you will reread to annotate for the gist. 

Reread Act 1: Separation (10 minutes)

1. As you reread, circle words that are unfamiliar.
2. After each paragraph, write the gist in the margins.

Directions for Triad Group Work:

1. Compare what you wrote for your Gist statements of each paragraph. 
2. See how they compare.
3. Are they similar or different.
4. Make changes/revisions to your gist statements, if needed.

Archetype = a model which other things are copied or repeated, kind of like a pattern.
Stories have character archetypes.
Examples:
The Hero
The Sidekick
The Mentor
The Maiden
The Villain

They are different characters in each story, with different names, but in every story they are always present. 

Directions for Partner Work:

1. Look back at your annotated text of “The Hero’s Journey” to look for the most important details. 
2. The important details will be quotes from the text that are essential to the author’s message.
3. Today we will just fill in the first 2 sections, the Introduction & Separation.

 Things Close Readers Do:

• Gets the gist of what the text is mostly about
• Cites Evidence
• Uses context clues to figure out word meanings
• Makes inferences based on details
• Talk with others about the text
• Pay attention to vocabulary
• Use Prefixes to determine word meanings
• Scan the Text for Structure
• Annotate the Text

What is the Purpose of this paragraph?
What does the author want the reader to understand?

The author is trying to prove that Percy is on a “Hero’s Journey.”

Now you will have an opportunity to write with this same purpose, to show how Percy’s experiences in The Lightning Thief align with The Hero’s Journey.

Directions:

1. With your partner, reread the example paragraph. 
2. Highlight and annotate important words and phrases.
3. Write your own paragraph showing how Percy’s experiences in the Lightning Thief align with The Hero’s Journey.

Criteria for your paragraph:

• Introduce the paragraph by making a claim about how Percy’s experiences align with the hero’s journey.
• Use quotes from both texts as evidence to support the claim.
• Write a sentence making it clear how the evidence from the two texts is connected.
• Close the paragraph with a clear concluding statement

Exit Ticket:
How has your idea of “Hero” changed? (5 minutes)

Homework:
Finish the first 2 sections of the chart about Central Ideas & Important details. You only need to complete the Introduction & Separation sections.