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ELD 3. 9/28. Journal Topic. Write about one of easiest decisions you have made in your life. Write a least one paragraph. You will have 10 minutes. We will share afterwards. Focus Lesson. Reading Comprehension- Test Taking Strategies Lesson 1
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ELD 3 9/28
Journal Topic • Write about one of easiest decisions you have made in your life. • Write a least one paragraph. • You will have 10 minutes. • We will share afterwards
Focus Lesson • Reading Comprehension- Test Taking Strategies • Lesson 1 • 1. Test Taking Strategy #1 Read the questions carefully circling the key words. Make sure you know what the question is asking!!!! • Test Taking Strategy #2 Begin with the title, read the passage throughly at least two times. Make a mental picture of what is being read.
Focus Lessons Cont. • Test Taking Strategy #3 Read the first question and return to the passage and identify the answer or clues that support the possible answer. • Test Taking Strategy #4 Return to the question and eliminate the wrong answer. • Test Taking Strategy #5 Buble the correct answer. • Test Taking Strategy #6 Repeat steps three through five for the remainder of the questions.
Objective • Students will review their academic vocabulary. • Students will learn what a folk tale is and will be able to recognize the characteristics. • Standards: 3.1 Analyze characteristics of subgenres (e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres.
Vocabulary • Confident Shock • Convince Tragedy • Doubt Worthless • Foolish • Nerves
Folk Tale • A folk tale is a simple story that has been shared and told to many people over the years. Folk tales usually reflect the culture they came from. • NasruddinHodja is a popular character in Middle Eastern tales. Sometimes he is a fool, but sometimes he is wise. He is known by different names throughout the Middle East.
Characteristics of a Folk Tale • 1. Folk Tales begin with “Once upon a time”, “Long, long ago”, etc. • 2. Three characters, 3 tasks, and 3 events appear in Folk Tales. • 3. Folk Tales have good and bad characters. • 4. Everyday people and/or animals are the characters in Folk Tales. • 5. The good characters in Folk Tales have a problem to solve. • 6. Phrases are repeated in Folk Tales. For example: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall…”. • 7.Folk Tales have happy endings
One in a Million a Middle Eastern Folk Tale • 1. What kind of character is easy to convince or trick? (think back to The Open Window) • 2 . What kind of character do you think Hodja might be? • 3. Do the people here use cars? Do they buy and sell things as we do? • What kind of character was Hodja? How could you tell?
AnalyzeOne in a Million • 1. Explain Why does Hodja spend so much money to buy the donkey? • 2. Vocabulary How does the donkey’s new owner convince people that the animal is valuable? 3. Analyze Literature: Folk Tale- Provide two details you learned about Middle Eastern culture from this folk tale.
Homework for the week. • Grammar- Fragments • Fragments- an incomplete sentence
Summary • In your own words tell me what is a folk tale and what are the characteristics of it? • Remember each sentence starts with a capital and ends with a punctuation mark. (., ?, !) I do not want to see any fragments.