Do Now: SOAPSTONE Reread your notes on SOAPSTONE. Read the first 10 lines of “Bernard F. Fisher…Medal of Honor” and extract examples of imagery.
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Agenda DO NOW- SOAPSTONE Review Common Core Standards and Objective Word of the Day Reminder Lecture: Writing the Precis Independent Practice Homework Exit Ticket
Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.1- Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2-Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.6-Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.8-Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Objective SWBAT evaluate a text at 75% mastery by using SOAPSTONE, imagery and figurative language to construct a written Precis(an objective summary) of 4 sentences by the end of the period.
SOAPSTONE Speaker: Steve Chawkins, journalist & writer Occasion: Fisher (MH) recipient dies 87/obituary A: Members of Airforce, LA Times Readers, family, friends and fellow vets. Purpose: Informs us of his heroic life, to celebrate his legacy, gives us insight into who he was Subject: spectacular rescue, courage on the battle field, bravest act of war Tone: Thoughtful, passionate, and reverence Organization: Chronological Narration: 1 st & 3 rd Evidence: Big Rescue/ “land in heavy fire”
Chunking for # 2 of Precis Chunk 1: Details Fisher’s rescue landing site Chunk 2: Describes bits of Fisher’s personal life Chunk 3: Chronicles his life from beginning to end. Chunk 4: Illustrate in great detail of the N. Vietnamese rescue. Chunk 5: Shares about his post war life
The Precis The precis defined 4 Sentences in length Can serve as an obj. summary or an introduction S1 is most important.
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Sentence 2 Simply chunk the text into four sections
Levels of Work Easy: Please complete three of the four sentences of a precis using another Medal of Honor article in your notebook. Medium: Complete an entire precis from another Medal of Honor article in your notebook. Difficult (Honors) Complete one precis from a Medal of Honors article and one precis from your reading thus far in TRBC.
Exit Ticket Evaluate how Henry from TRBC compares to the heroes discussed in other articles of the Medal of Honor.