Week #25
Unit 5: Comparing Authors’ Choices
Bell
Ringer:
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* 10 minutes of independent reading
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Warm-Up
Lesson:
| Boy Scouts are feeling new heat to let girls join their troops
* Read the text and take notes in your LA notebook
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Focus Lesson:
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Readers determine which evidence is emphasized by examining patterns of word choice, including repetition and charged language, as well as the order and pacing of information.
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RI.7.9 Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
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Class Work:
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* Re-watch the video
Terrible Things
* Re-read the text
* Complete the graphic organizer
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Homework:
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Complete the Graphic Organizer for Terrible Things and Children of the Holocoust. (Due Friday!)
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OMG Fact:
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Cleopatra made her lipstick from crushed beetles, which gave it a red pigment, and ants which she used for the base.
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