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Lesson 40 Learning Focus, Part 2 A Scouting Party. Lesson Goals Understand concepts and ideas for second half of unit Predict, infer, and interpret based on close reading of print and nonprint materials Identify novel’s point of view Apply strategies for understanding new vocabulary.
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Lesson 40Learning Focus, Part 2A Scouting Party Lesson Goals Understand concepts and ideas for second half of unit Predict, infer, and interpret based on close reading of print and nonprint materials Identify novel’s point of view Apply strategies for understanding new vocabulary
Learning Focus, Page 361 • While we are reading a novel fully immersed in the life of Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, you will also go beyond the story to focus on how the author, Harper Lee, tells the story • Explore how setting, conflict, and characters develop themes within the text • Reading Strategies • Interpret quotations and passages as clues to the thematic meaning • Develop a thematic statements and write a literary analysis explaining the meaning of a passage and how it contributes to the novel as a whole
Vocabulary – TKAMB Packet • Flashback: an interruption in the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past • Where do we see examples of flashbacks?
Springboard page 3645.10 A Scouting Party • To introduce you to the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, we will watch the opening credits of the film version • While we view the film, take notes in the organizer on what you observe in the scene—images, lighting, sound?
Based on your observations… • What predictions can you make about the story? • Down at the bottom of the page… • From the sound and the images, what can you infer about the point of view from which this story is told?
TKAMB: Chapter 1, Read Aloud • As I read Chapter 1 aloud to you, Fill in the T-Chart on page 365 in Springboard • What are some facts about the narrator that you know for sure from the chapter? • What characters are mentioned in chapter 1? Write down their names.
Perspective • Consider your notes about the narrator. • What does this tell you about the person (narrator)? Gender? Age? Ideas/Philosophies?
Page 366-367 • The next chunk of chapter 1 is written out in Springboard • Working with a partner, read the text. • Highlight in one color images and details that describe what the children look like and what they are doing as you read. • In a second color, highlight words you do not know. Look up those words, and write in a summarized definition in the space above the word. • When finished, describe the children in your own words in the margins.
Homework • Finish reading Chapter 1