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Today’s Quick-Write: W hat animal would best represent your personality? List 3 reasons. (What type of animal/bird best describes you?). North Senior Academy. Urban Literacy. Diverse Urban Scholars. Targets: I can determine the Gist of a text. I can find the Significant
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Today’s Quick-Write:What animal would best representyour personality? List 3 reasons.(What type of animal/bird best describes you?)
North Senior Academy Urban Literacy Diverse Urban Scholars
Targets:I can determine the Gist of a text I can find the Significant Moments of a text
Today's Agenda: • Analyze commercial text • Share Out a few Quick-Writes • New Author • Analyze video for Gist/Significant Moments • Period 4 - Pretest
Analyze Commercial Text • Metaphor • How is metaphor used to create a persuasive or powerful text?
“So often in these past two years I have had to watch my dream transformed into a nightmare . . . I have felt my dream falter as I have traveled through the rat-infested slums of our big city ghettos and watched our jobless and hopeless poor sweltering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.” On a trip to Chicago in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked:
Richard Wright Native Son
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Dutchman
Amiri Baraka • Born Leroi Jones (1934) • African American author & political activist • founder of the"Black Arts Movement“ – 1960s • Dutchman1964
T-Chart Text Analysis: Reading, Viewing, Listening in order to . . . • find the gist of the text • find the significant moments • interpret the author’s ideas • analyze the author’s methods
Text Title (plus scene number or section)Gist Statement: • SigMo(quote/event) • Reason Meaning (surface & “between the lines”): Methods:
Formal Letter Writing Pre-TestCompose a formal letter to Principal Branchrespectfully expressing your mainhopes, dreams or desires for North Senior Academy.