Tuesday: Author's chair. Students will be able to read their poems to the class they wrote over last week(end). Students will then read and respond to the famous Robert Frost poem The Road Less Traveled.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536
Read and answer the following questions:
- Do you think the road the speaker took was really the less traveled one? Why?
- What do you think the chances are that the speaker will get to come back and try the other path?
- Do you think the speaker regrets his choice, or is happy about it? Why?
- What type of choices do you think this fork in the road represents for the speaker?
- What personal choices does this poem remind you of?
Wednesday:
Students will write their own definition for inference and share it aloud with the class. They will then create a vocabulary page ( definition, part of speech, sentence with context, picture) for the word inference.
Students will then go through the following videos and questions with the class:
Students will then be able to go back to their vocabulary page and original definition and write a paragraph (main idea, three examples, conclusion) about what an inference is.
Thursday:
Students will read the following short story--
They will need to complete the story for class on Friday.
Friday:
Students will work in small groups to complete a story study which includes a complete page with these elements:
- evidence of inference, including citing exact passages
- setting (time and place, be specific!)
- characters (in complete paragraphs with at least three examples)
- new vocabulary and definitions
- a book review, written in a five paragraph essay of whether or not the group would recommend this story and why.
