Transcript Dragonwings: Ch. 4: 1/27/14

Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/3/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or
her perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Learning
Objective:
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Find the gist of the opening excerpt from Yep’s autobiography The Lost
Garden.
Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to
fit into another culture.
Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like
to fit into another culture.
Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into
another culture in Dragonwings
Focus
Question:
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“What does it mean to fit into another culture?”
Class Work:
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Read the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist
Mark the text for main ideas, important details, figurative language
Write the “gist” of this excerpt in your journal
Identify unfamiliar words and phrases
Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions
Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective
Work collaboratively to complete pages 11-13 in materials packet
Homework:
Respond to the following question in your journal:
- “What does it mean to fit into another culture?”
Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/4/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or
her perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Learning
Objective:
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Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to
fit into another culture.
Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like
to fit into another culture.
Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into
another culture in Dragonwings
Class Work:
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Review the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist
Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions
Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective
Work collaboratively to complete pages 11-13 in materials packet
Vocabulary:
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Opium, opium den
Homework:
Review chapter 4. Create a chart to answer the following questions:
“What is Moon Shadow’s point of view of the opium dens? How do you
know?” Use evidence flags to identify three text details from the rest of this
chapter to support your answer.
Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/5/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or
her perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Learning
Objective:
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Class Work:
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Homework:
Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to
fit into another culture.
Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like
to fit into another culture.
Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into
another culture in Dragonwings
Review the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist (p. 49-50 or 6667) beginning with “The first time we went out…” and ending at “Father
saw how I clutched the seat…”
Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions
Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective
Work collaboratively to complete pgs. 11-12 and p. 17 in materials packet
Reading: “The Crime in the Neighborhood” Excerpt from The Lost Garden
(Lesson 7); Mark the text for main ideas and important details
- Write the gist of this passage.
Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/6/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or
her perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Learning
Objective:
- I can find the gist of the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt.
- I can identify details in the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt that
affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police.
- I can infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective
on the police.
Class Work:
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Read the excerpt “Ccrime in the Neighborhood”
Identify unfamiliar words and phrases
Find the gist
Identify Cultural Details through questions from the text
Work collaboratively to complete page 10-11(Lesson 7) in materials packet
Vocabulary
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Proclamations, dirigible, grieves, resenting, confrontation, desperate,
moronic, scuttled, fox
Homework:
Vocabulary
Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/6/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her
perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Learning
Objective:
- I can find the gist of the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt.
- I can identify details in the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt that affected
Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police.
- I can infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police.
Class Work:
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Focus
Question:
* “What was Moon Shadow’s point of view of Black Dog after he stole the
collection money?”
Vocabulary
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Homework:
Read Chapter 5 up to page 108, stopping after “… all the others in the room could
feel it too.”
Answer the focus question in your journal
Use evidence flags to identify three text details from this section of Chapter 5 to
support your answer.
Review: “The Crime in the Neighborhood” Excerpt from The Lost Garden
Identify Cultural Details through questions from the text
Work collaboratively to complete page 11 (Lesson 7) in materials packet
Proclamations, dirigible, grieves, resenting, confrontation, desperate, moronic,
scuttled, fox
Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/7/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her
perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Determine the meaning of literal, connotative, and figurative language
(metaphors and similes) in literary text. (RL.6.4)
Learning
Objective:
Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police in
Dragonwings.
Explain what connotative language is and identify the meaning of
connotative language.
Class Work:
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Connotation and Denotation (ppt. and C.N.)
Guided and independent practice
Exit Ticket
Vocabulary
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Proclamations, dirigible, grieves, resenting, confrontation, desperate, moronic,
scuttled, fox
Homework:
Read Chapter 6