October 11, 2010 “Eat Fresh Buy Local” Voice Day 2

1. October 11, 2010“Eat Fresh Buy Local” Voice Day 2 • What is the author’s point of view toward the subject? (How does he feel about it?) • How would you characterize the author’s voice? • How do you know the author knows the subject and is confident? • “bounty of produce,” “strove to ensure,” “protects the land,” “helps struggling economies”

2. Student Goals • Read “The Leap.” • Identify possible examples of foreshadowing. • Identify clues that signal the author is using flashback. • Make inferences. • Identify and explain literal and figurative meaning.

3. After reading: • Complete questions 1, 2, 3, 5 on p. 19 in Brown Book. • Use complete sentences. • Try to make your answers succinct. Hmmm? What does that mean?

4. Group Work • Each group with be given 1 question. • Answer the question using textual support. • Each group member records the answer in the brown book on p. 21. • Record the group’s final answer on large paper. • The question number and group names should be on the sheet. • Hang your answer up. • You will have only five minutes to complete the assignment.

5. 11 p. 39 Analyze: Re-read the second paragraph of the story, in which the narrator describes sewing in her room. What is really happening here? “ . . . as I sit sewing in the room of the rebuilt house in which I slept as a child, I hear the crackle, catch a whiff of smoke from the stove downstairs, and suddenly the room goes dark, the stitches burn beneath my fingers, and I am sewing with a needle of hot silver, a thread of fire. “

6. 12 p. 44 Evaluate: Do you think the story of the mother’s rescue is credible? Explain. “She ascended. She vanished. Then she could be seen among the leafless branches of late November as she made her way up and, along her stomach, inched the length of a bough that curved above the branch that brushed the roof. ”

7. 13 p. 40 Explain: Locate places in which the story flashes back and forward. Plot the main events in chronological order on a time line. You have to find the others alone! • . . . on that day in June.

8. Gallery Walk • As you go around visiting the other group’s answers, you will: • Read the question from the book. • Read their answer. • Evaluate the answer. • Have they answered the question? • Is the answer complete? • Is there appropriate textual evidence? • Record the answer you decide is best.

9. Homework • Week 7, Countdown for Testing, due Tues., Oct. 19. • Study for “The Leap” quiz on Wed. Exit Ticket: What is the author’s purpose with “The Leap?” What is the reader supposed to take away from it?