Check Your Progress Record Comprehension and Vocabulary score Did you meet your Goal? If “yes” give yourself 5 points! Record Vocabulary Vault score Record Adventures in Writing score Add and record Team Cooperation score Read and Response, give yourself 1 point for every day I signed. (up to 5 points) File all old papers

New Job Check the board for this weeks job Fill out your new team score sheet Team Name Start Date: 2-23-09 Unit Title: The Ch’i-Lin Purse Strategy Target: Genre Structure

Compare and Contrast 10 Ways to Help Save Wildlife Why Some Animals are Considered Bad or Scary

The midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Team Cooperation Goal Complete tasks

Title: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Reading Goal: Setting Team Cooperation Goal: Complete tasks Genre: Poem Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

aloft: up The kite flew aloft in the bright, blue sky.

muffled: quiet When my sister got scared her screams were muffled because she was covering her mouth.

phantom: not real The phantom ghost was enough to scare the trick-or-treaters and cause them to run away.

perch: post The sailor stayed on his perch looking for signs of land.

Bulk : large body The bulk of the giant cast a large shadow onto the crowd.

fate :future The soccer player knew that the fate of his career depended on his performance in the game.

Review Vocabulary with Partner Can you say it? Can you define it? Can you say it in a sentence?

Building Background Setting- Where and when the story takes place. How does the setting affect the characters? Model clarifying puddles

Listen for how the setting affects the characters. Building Background Listen for how the setting affects the characters.

Partner Share How does the park setting affect Vaughn and Chanelle?

p. 59-60 What examples of setting do we see in The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories?

The midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow About the author p. 249 Preview P. 234

Team Talk Let’s preview the questions on page 89 of your treasure hunt.

Partner Read 15 minutes Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you pages 236 Partner Read p. A:236 Stanza 1&2-B: Stanza 3 Restate page B: Stanza 1&2 and A:Stanza 3 Read Silently: Page 236 Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary words

Team Discussion-15minutes Discuss answers to team talk questions Write answers to question 1 and 2

Team Talk How can you tell this story is a folktale? (write) {GS-DC} Describe Hsiang-Ling.{CH} What did the purse symbolize? {LT} Living a long life Finding true love Having male offspring A mother’s love Make a prediction, with evidence, about what will happen with the purse. (write) {PR}

Class Discussion What words did your group clarify?

Writing Adventures- 15 min How might this story be different in modern times? Give two examples in your response.

Scoring Guide You answer the question 25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details 25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it 20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences 20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation 10 points

Vocabulary Practice-10 min Divide your words with partner. Choose a word from your list to use in a meaningful sentence.

Fluency – 5 min Page 192 (paragraphs 4 and 5) Page 193 (paragraph 1)

Fluency Rubric 100 points Expressiveness Smoothness Rate and correctness 90 points Smoothness 80 points Rate and correctness 70 points Correctness