October 8, 2010 “Eat Fresh Buy Local” Organization Day 1 What is the first paragraph about? What is the second paragraph about? What does the author do in the third paragraph? Based on what the author did in the first three paragraphs, what should the author do next?

Student Goals Evaluate “The Leap.” Analyze specific events in the text for literal and figurative meaning. Evaluate events in the text for credibility. Organize plot events in chronological order. Evaluate the author’s use of foreshadowing and flashback in the story.

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.

11 Analyze: Re-read the second paragraph of the story, in which the narrator describes sewing in her room. What is really happening here? p. 39 “ . . . 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. “

12 Evaluate: Do you think the story of the mother’s rescue is credible? Explain. p. 44 “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. ”

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

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.

Get out a sheet of lined paper. You will be answering #14 on p. 45. You may use your text and your brown book. You may not talk!

Homework Week 6, Countdown for Testing, due Mon., Oct. 11. Exit Ticket: I think this story is well-constructed, balanced even! Tell me why I would think that using evidence from the text.