Personal Narrative Peer Edit, Nonfiction Gallery walk Day 36 Personal Narrative Peer Edit, Nonfiction Gallery walk

Objectives Understand and identify the use of adjectives and adverbs in sentences. Understand and evaluate primary/secondary sources in nonfiction. HOMEWORK: Nonfiction test on Friday LORD OF THE FLIES for Monday

Agenda Warm up Personal Narrative Peer edit Nonfiction Gallery walk Gallery walk correction Nonfiction Test review sheet Closure

Warm Up – Adverb Exercise Take out a piece of paper. We are going to do an adverb activity. It is the same as the adjective activity. List all of the adverbs that you think of to fit the word on the following screen.

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Personal Narrative – Peer Edit

Peer Edit Go to turnitin.com Click on the assignment labeled “Peermark” Edit your classmate’s paper. You must answer the questions about the paper in complete sentences. Offer constructive criticism. You can leave comments in the paper if something is unclear or if you really liked a sentence.

Peer Edit- This must be completed in class. Give all of the feedback that you can so they will be able to improve their paper. You would want the same, right?

Nonfiction practice and Review

Tips for reading Nonfiction

Begin with the title Make predictions Consider meanings

Read for the author’s main idea It might be stated thesis…..intro…….conclusion It might be implied

Identify supporting details Facts Statistics Quotes Anecdotes (story) Opinions Descriptions Examples

Distinguish between important and unimportant details

Observe the visual features of the text Charts Maps Headings Photos

Observe the organizational features of the text Compare/contrast Order of importance (least  most) Cause- effect Chronological Problem/solution Definition

Observe the structural features of the text Parallelism Anti thesis Syntax

Determine the Author’s purpose and style

Purpose- To entertain To inform To influence Style Formal or informal Elevated or simple Figurative or literal To express

Tone- the feeling of the author Diction- word choice Point-of-view- primary vs. secondary Bias- strong opinion Appeals- how author attracts the reader Logos- appeals to the reader’s reason/mind logic Pathos- appeals to the reader’s emotion/heart passion Ethos- appeals to the reader’s morals/soul ethics (right vs. wrong)

Draw conclusions/ make inferences

Seabiscuit – Page 128 Read “Seabiscuit” in your textbook. Fill out the worksheet as you read. Turn in the worksheet when you finish.

Research after the reading Read Laura Hillenbrand’s essay, “A Sudden Illness – How My Life Changed,” which appeared in The New Yorker, July 7, 2003. Find answers to the following questions and write them in a new doc: How did Hillenbrand’s struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome eventually lead her to write Seabiscuit: An American Legend? How did Hillenbrand first learn about Red Pollard? Why did his background appeal to her? Why did Hillenbrand feel a connection with Pollard and Seabiscuit?

Book Jacket Project Based on the information you have gleaned, work in your pairs and create a book jacket for a nonfiction book about Hillenbrand’s life and her struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Closure Write: 3 Strategies for studying for our test. 2 nonfiction vocabulary words and their definitions. 1 thing you learned today.