Thursday,+October+6,+2011

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** Learning Objectives (copy into journal): **

 * 1) Comprehend a challenging text and underline details
 * 2) Write paragraph summaries
 * 3) Use varied sentence structure
 * ==== __MATERIALS__: ====
 * ====Planner ====
 * ====My English text ====
 * ====Journal ====
 * ====Pen/pencil ==== ||

** IMPORTANT WEEKLY DATES (copy into Planner): ** Journal Check - Friday 10/07
__**AGENDA:**__
 * 1. "My English" by Julia Alvarez - LB 114-120**
 * __Read the text__
 * //1st Read - Comprehension//
 * Students read aloud paragraphs 4-8:
 * After each paragraph:
 * 1) Ask comprehension question (related to main idea of paragraph)
 * 2) Students underline evidence in text
 * 3) Using one of the summary sentence types, each A-B pair writes one summary sentence
 * 4) Share summary sentence with adjacent pair, then each writes the other's summary sentence down
 * 5) Share outs with whole class
 * Repeat for paragraph chunks 9-15 and 16-21
 * __Set Reading Purpose__
 * Cornell notes on "Author's Purpose"
 * Copy graphic organizer (21) into journal