Objective:

Dragonwings: Ch. 2: 1/21-22

Learning Targets: Focus Question:

- Determine the meaning of literal and figurative language (metaphors and similes) in literary text. (RL.6.4) - Analyze how an author’s word choice affects tone and meaning in a literary text. (RL.6.4) - Analyze how a particular sentence, stanza, scene, or chapter fits in and contributes to the development of a literary text. (RL.6.5) - Analyze how an author develops a narrator or speaker’s point of view. (RL.6.6) - Find the gist of pages 23–25 of Dragonwings.

- Determine the meaning of figurative language.

- Analyze how the words affect tone and meaning.

- Explain how a chapter fits into a theme.

- Analyze how Laurence Yep develops Moon Shadow’s point of view of where the Tang people live. “What does Moon Shadow think about his father?”

Class Work:

Reread Pages 23–25 of Dragonwings for Gist Analyze Point of View, Figurative Language, and Tone: Pages 23–25 Determining Author’s Techniques: Point of View, Tone and Meaning, and Figurative Language

Dragonwings: Ch. 2: 1/21-22

Vocabulary: Homework:

souvenir, safeguards, guardians, inhabitants (23), amiably, tunic, flitting, vendors (24), flanks, zinc (25).

Read Chapter 3 of Dragonwings. Answer the focus question. Use evidence flags to identify three text details from the chapter to support your answer. Code each flag as a thought, word, or action to show the technique that Laurence Yep was using to convey Moon Shadow’s point of view.