1. Do Now: SOAPSTONE  Reread your notes on SOAPSTONE.  Read the first 10 lines of “Bernard F. Fisher…Medal of Honor” and extract examples of imagery.

2. Examples of Imagery

4. Visual

5. Agenda  DO NOW- SOAPSTONE Review  Common Core Standards and Objective  Word of the Day Reminder  Lecture: Writing the Precis  Independent Practice  Homework  Exit Ticket

6. Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.1- Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2-Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.6-Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.8-Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

7. Objective  SWBAT evaluate a text at 75% mastery by using SOAPSTONE, imagery and figurative language to construct a written Precis(an objective summary) of 4 sentences by the end of the period.

8. SOAPSTONE  Speaker: Steve Chawkins, journalist & writer  Occasion: Fisher (MH) recipient dies 87/obituary  A: Members of Airforce, LA Times Readers, family, friends and fellow vets.  Purpose: Informs us of his heroic life, to celebrate his legacy, gives us insight into who he was  Subject: spectacular rescue, courage on the battle field, bravest act of war  Tone: Thoughtful, passionate, and reverence  Organization: Chronological  Narration: 1 st & 3 rd  Evidence: Big Rescue/ “land in heavy fire”

9. Chunking for # 2 of Precis  Chunk 1: Details Fisher’s rescue landing site  Chunk 2: Describes bits of Fisher’s personal life  Chunk 3: Chronicles his life from beginning to end.  Chunk 4: Illustrate in great detail of the N. Vietnamese rescue.  Chunk 5: Shares about his post war life

10. The Precis  The precis defined  4 Sentences in length  Can serve as an obj. summary or an introduction  S1 is most important.

12. Sample

16. Sentence 2  Simply chunk the text into four sections

25. Levels of Work  Easy: Please complete three of the four sentences of a precis using another Medal of Honor article in your notebook.  Medium: Complete an entire precis from another Medal of Honor article in your notebook.  Difficult (Honors) Complete one precis from a Medal of Honors article and one precis from your reading thus far in TRBC.

26. Exit Ticket  Evaluate how Henry from TRBC compares to the heroes discussed in other articles of the Medal of Honor.