Week #34
Unit 6: Analyzing & Comparing Form & Structure
Bell
Ringer:
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10 Minutes of independent reading
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All library books are due back by May 10th!
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Warm-Up
Lesson:
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Ode to an Artichoke
* Re-read the poem
* Answer the TBQs
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RL.7.1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.7.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama..
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Focus Lesson:
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Reading to an audience
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RL7.2- Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text.
RL7.5- Analyze how a drama's or a poem's form or structure contributes to its meaning.
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Class Work:
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* Whole-class read aloud: Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (page 414)
* Compare/Contrast Organizer
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Homework:
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OMG Fact:
| Hair and fingernails don't grow after death, but the illusion of skin tightening as the body dehydrates makes it appear so. | |
