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Cycle 1, Day 3. Reading strategies foundation unit. Reading goal: As we read, we will make predictions about events in a narrative poem. Today’s Big Question: Is it easier to predict events in a story about heroic deeds or to predict events in real life? Team Cooperation Skill:
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Cycle 1, Day 3 Reading strategies foundation unit
Reading goal: • As we read, we will make predictions about events in a narrative poem. • Today’s Big Question: • Is it easier to predict events in a story about heroic deeds or to predict events in real life? • Team Cooperation Skill: • Explain your ideas and tell why
British vs. Rebels • How did the rebels’ style of fighting differ from the method the British troops used? • Why did the rebels call British soldiers redcoats or lobsterbacks?
Predicting: Think-Pair-Share • When you pick up a magazine, how do you decide if you want to read it? • What are some purposes of reading? • How might your purpose for reading affect how you read?
Check out your Reading Goal • T-P-S: • While you are reading a story, what kinds of predictions might you make? • How might predicting help you improve your understanding of what you read?
Listening • Active listening position. • “The Ride of Jennie M’Neil” stanza 1 • T-P-S: do you predict that this narrative poem might be similar to “The Ride of Paul Revere”? What evidence do you have? • “The Ride of Jennie M’Neil” stanza 2 • From reading this, what do we know about the main character? • What do you predict will happen in this poem?
Partner read: stanzas 3-6 Team talk questions • What causes Jennie M’Neal to ride out on a stormy night? • How does the poet use the last lines of each stanza? Give examples. • Describe Jennie’s relationship with the colonel. • Make a prediction about what will happen next in the poem. What clues lead you to make this prediction? (write)
Big Question - # heads • Did anyone predict that Jennie would be unsuccessful in her ride to ward the colonel? • Why would this prediction be possible but less likely? • Is it easier to predict events in story poems about heroic deeds or to predict events in real life? • Why
Vocabulary Review • Vocabulary Review • Valorous • Resolute • Steed • Aghast • Homework: read 20 minutes EVERY NIGHT!