Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Grade 6:
> Make introductions
> Answer some essential questions
> Share answers to those essential questions
> Discuss the future
Grade 10:
> Make introductions
> Answer some essential questions
> Share answers to those essential questions
> Discuss the future
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Grade 6:
> Debrief Day I
> Preview the days ahead
> Read the fictional narrative "Oscar and the Big Fish"
> Answer questions about the narrative
> Begin completing a Reader's Companion for "Oscar and the Big Fish"
Grade 10:
> Debrief Day I
> Preview the days ahead
> Read the personal narrative "Prescilla with Wings"
> Answer questions about the narrative
> Begin writing your own personal narrative
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Grade 6:
> Review the story "Oscar and the Big Fish"
> Complete a Readers Companion for "Oscar and the Big Fish"
Grade 10:
> Continue writing your own personal narrative
Friday, August 16, 2013
Grade 6:
> Read "The Giving Tree"
> Begin completing a Reader's Companion for "The Giving Tree"
Grade 10:
> Continue writing your own personal narrative, inspired by Oscar Jimenez's "Prescilla with Wings"
For ideas on how to write a set-up that is replete with sensory details and which foreshadows -- albeit ambiguously -- what is to come later, read the first few paragraphs of Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter."