Thursday, March 23, 2017

Thursday 3-23-17

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Week #29
Unit 6: Analyzing & Comparing Form & Structure

Bell
Ringer:
10 Minute Quick Write: Write about what's happening in your historical fiction novel so far.
W.7.10Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Warm-Up
Lesson:
* Re-read the text Santorio Santorio and the Thermometer.

* Answer the TBQs using “Stand Up-Hand Up-Pair Up”.
RL7.2- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text.
Focus Lesson:
Reading like a writer: How does a writer of historical fiction develop the setting of their story in order to convey the historical time period?
.RL.7.3Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Class Work:
Read historical fiction novel.
Homework:
30 minutes of independent reading.

OMG Fact:
In Italy it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.