Mr. Verlin Overbrook High School September 22, 2015

Do Now: Brainstorming  Write today’s objective in your notebooks.

Objectives:  The students will be able to analyze an informational text.  The students will be able to draft a plan for a 3- paragraph essay.

Focus Lesson: …Plain Style  Direct Instruction: Text Analysis  The Central Question: how well did the Indians get along with the Europeans?  Text Analysis: listing the headings in an informational text in an outline form  Section elimination: cross out all of the sections which don’t directly pertain to the central question.  Targeted Reading: remaining  Guided Practice: Targeted Reading  Start reading the first of the remaining sections.  In your notebooks, write: I. Forming New Relations  As you read, write down specific details you “see” in standard outline form beneath.

Focus Lesson: …Plain Style  Guided Practice (con’t.)  After you finished reading the section, on your planning sheet, write the following in the spaces provided on the planning sheet:  Thesis statement: your answer to the central question  Topic Sentence #1: form a sentence from the first heaing in your notes  Specific Support: list the details you wrote immediately beneath.  Read the next section as time permits and repeat the process until all of the spaces on the planning sheet are completed (except the conclusion).