Woodstock Middle School 7 th Grade Mr Eric

Woodstock Middle School / 7 th Grade Mr. Eric Kelley

Aggie Agitator Yesterday, we read a story entitled Grounded. What is a lesson that you believe the writer of the story learned from her grandmother? Why do you believe this? Write at least three proper and complete sentences, and use at least three of these words. . DIALOGUE CONSEQUENCE PERSPECTIVE

Aggie Agitator Let’s We need. Share! a few volunteers to read their stories! . 5 minutes

Today’s • Do a Agenda quick review of Narrative Nonfiction from yesterday’s lesson. . • Discuss Learning Strategies and Summarizing, to help us understand the stories we will be reading. . • Discuss tonight’s homework assignment. Mr. Eric Kelley English / Language Arts.

Today’s Focus: Welcome Back, Aggies! STATE OF TENNESSEE ELA STANDARDS: 7. W. TTP. 3 Write narratives (fiction and nonfiction) to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. PERFORMANCE-BASED OBJECTIVES: SWBAT write an objective summary using the Somebody Wanted But So Then technique. SWBAT write an objective summary using the Who What When Where Why How technique. DAILY LEARNING TARGETS: TSW write an objective summary using the Somebody Wanted But So Then technique. TSW write an objective summary using the Who What When Where Why How Mr. Erictechnique. Kelley English / Language Arts.

Vocabulary (from yesterday) Narrativ Nonficti _______ = a e on genre of writing that tells a true story Mr. Eric Kelley English / Language Arts.

Vocabulary (from yesterday) Genre = another word _______ for style Mr. Eric Kelley English / Language Arts.

Let’s Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) What is a narrative nonfiction? tru nonfiction = e ______ stor narrative = ______ y

Let’s Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) In a narrative nonfiction, the writer tells a real-life stor ____. y

Let’s Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) If the story is about the author own life, it is also ____ called a memoir. ’s

Let’s Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) A good narrative nonfiction writer will keep you hanging _____. build. That means he will slowly

Let’s Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) In a narrative nonfiction, the ide ______ comes at the centr _____ a end. al The central idea is the main remembe thing that the author wants

Lets Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) Famous Narrative Nonfiction Books:

Lets Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) Narrative nonfiction gives a lot ofcreativ _____details characters e the ______. about

Lets Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) Narrative nonfiction tells the true story in chronological _______ order.

Lets Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) Chronological Order = the order in which it happene ______ d

Lets Review! (Activating Prior Knowledge) Narrative nonfiction follows this pattern: Clima x Rising Action Falling Action Expositio Resoluti

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: on tim e mo e! re We will be reading and writing a lot about this particular question: What can one generation learn from another? Mr. Eric Kelley English / Language Arts.

Lets Learn! (Concept/Skill Development) Today, we will learn about two things: 1. Learning Strategies (tips to help us learn) 2. Summarizing

Lets (Concept/Skill Development) Learn! To help you learn as we go forward: LEARNING STRATEGIES Listen

Lets Learn! (Concept/Skill LEARNING STRATEGIES Development) To help you learn as we go forward: Pretend you are in the actual classroom.

Lets Learn! LEARNING STRATEGIES (Concept/Skill Development) To help you learn as we go forward: Make your phone

Lets Learn! LEARNING STRATEGIES (Concept/Skill Development) To help you learn as we go forward: Take Notes.

Lets Learn! LEARNING STRATEGIES (Concept/Skill Development) To help you learn as we go forward: Read your notes a few times

Lets Learn! LEARNING STRATEGIES (Concept/Skill Development) To help you learn as we go forward: Ask questions if you don’t

Lets Learn! LEARNING STRATEGIES (Concept/Skill Development) To help you learn as we go forward: Share your thoughts and ideas (at

Lets Learn! LEARNING STRATEGIES (Concept/Skill Development) To help you learn as we go forward:

Lets Learn! SUMMARIZING (Concept/Skill Development) Summarizing = when we take a ______ whole____ of words, and then say same the ______ in just a few lot ______ words. thing

Lets Learn! SUMMARIZING (Concept/Skill Development) METHOD #1: Somebody Wanted But So Then

Lets Learn! SUMMARIZING (Concept/Skill Development) METHOD #1: Somebody Wanted But So Then the main ____________ his character motivation or WANTED = thegoal conflict ______________ how he tired to solve the (problem) BUT =conflict the resolution or SOMEBODY = _________________

Lets Learn! (Concept/Skill Development) METHOD #2: Six Basic Questions SUMMARIZING

Lets Learn! (Concept/Skill Development) METHOD #2: Six Basic Questions SUMMARIZING Who were the main characters? What did they do? When did it happen? Where did it happen? Why did it happen? How did it happen?

Lets Learn! (Concept/Skill Development) H T E M Then : 1 # OD y d o b e m So SUMMARIZING ME But So THO d e t n D# a W with both methods… 2: S ix B asic Que stio ns We take that information, and use it to form five to six sentences about the text. Then we have a summary!

Closure Let’s Wrap It Up! Today, we learned several learning strategies. . We also learned the meaning of summarizing, and two different techniques

Aggie Analyzer TRUE OR FALSE? . 1. A summary is when we take a few words, and then say the same thing with a lot more words. 2. One method for summarizing is called Somebody Wanted But So Then. 3. One method for summarizing is called The Eighteen Difficult Questions. 4. Summarizing can help us understand a text.

Things to Remember • Homework In TEAMS; Due Tomorrow Assignment • Test on Friday • Textbook is in Over Everything From Last Week Under “Files, ” same place as Power. Points Optional Information in Student Notebook, to help you understand