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Terrific T uesday!

Terrific T uesday!. Take the short quiz. Use the article from yesterday to help you determine the best summary. Welcome to 7 th grade MOSAICS Academy! September 18, 2012 . Book Talks. Let’s talk! What date did you choose? Let’s look again at what is required. Viewpoint.

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Terrific T uesday!

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  1. Terrific Tuesday! • Take the short quiz. Use the article from yesterday to help you determine the best summary. Welcome to 7th grade MOSAICS Academy! September 18, 2012

  2. Book Talks • Let’s talk! • What date did you choose? • Let’s look again at what is required.

  3. Viewpoint • What does it mean? • Do we have the power to envision alternate ways of viewing the author’s topic? • We must consider how the account of any historical event has been inluencedbyt the author who wrote it.

  4. What is it? • Imagine the author sitting in front of a blank computer screen. The author’s viewpoint is the very reason the author types anything at all on his/her computer! • It is the big WHY question about life that the author is trying to answer for you! • For example…

  5. Why did Aesop write the fable about the tortoise and the hare?

  6. He wanted you to know that success in life isn’t only what you’re good at. It’s also steadily working toward your goal without getting off track that helps you succeed!

  7. So how do we know what the author’s viewpoint is, anyway (and why should we care?)

  8. If we figure out the author’s views, we can understand what he/she wrote! • Of course!

  9. The Author’s Language. • The words the author uses give us clues about how the author feels about life’s issues! • For example, if the author was describing America using words like: honor, cherish, treasure, and proud…we can infer (infer means piece the clues together) that the author’s viewpoint about America is…

  10. A good place to live and a great nation to be a part of!

  11. If an author used the following words to describe the beach: cold, bitter wind, nauseating smell of fish, shrieking seagulls…we can infer (piece the clues together, remember?) that the author’s view about life at the beach is…

  12. An awful, cruddy way to spend vacation!

  13. The story’s illustrations • Use the pictures that are in your story as clues of the author’s views about life. For example, in a story about factories, if you saw pictures like these, what would you infer (put the pieces together, you know?) about the author’s views about factories?

  14. In Conclusion: • The author’s viewpoint tells us why the author bothered to write the story in the first place. • It is the author’s view about something or about life. • You can tell what the author’s viewpoint is by looking at the words he/she used. • You can use illustrations to figure out the author’s viewpoint.

  15. Write three things you know about Christopher Columbus.

  16. Christopher Columbus • What story would he tell of his voyage to the Americas?

  17. The Taino • What story would they tell of Columbus and his “discovery?” • What story would one of the sailors tell? • What viewpoint would Queen Isabella have?

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