Let’s Prepare! -------BYOT is allowed.  Highlighters

Hope, Despair, and Memory Lesson 2

Let’s Review!

Let’s Prepare!

Today’s Outcomes TSWBAT analyze a text to reveal how the author develops a central idea of a text. TSWBAT discuss how an author structures an argument to convey a main idea.

Let’s Prepare! -------BYOT is allowed.  Highlighters

Let’s Read!

Do any grievances seem smaller or larger then others? Explain. Turn and Talk Let’s Pause! 30 seconds Do any grievances seem smaller or larger then others? Explain.

Why do you think Jefferson chose to include these specific grievances? Turn and Talk Let’s Pause! 30 seconds Why do you think Jefferson chose to include these specific grievances?

Turn and Talk Let’s Pause! 30 seconds Why would Jefferson blame the kind of problems leading to the Declaration of Independence when Parliament, not the monarch, passed the acts and approved the taxes that led to the colonists calling for independence?

Let’s Practice! -------BYOT is allowed. Synonym Swap 7 minutes

Let’s Read! 3 minutes

Let’s Practice! Guiding Questions: What is the most important information in this section of the text? How can we boil that down to one paragraph?

Let’s Express Our Understanding! Turn and Talk 10 minutes

Let’s Express Our Understanding! Guiding Questions: According to Jefferson, what rights has the king violated? Which ones seem most severe? What is Jefferson’s central idea? How does his list of grievances relate to his central idea?

Independent Reading To grow a LOVE for reading. To improve READING FLUENCY and COMPREHENSION. To increase your VOLUME of reading. Independently read your new novel. You will be asked to complete a short writing prompt when Independent Reading time is complete.

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