1. Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/3/14 Content Objective: Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her perspective. (RL.6.6a) Learning Objective: -Find the gist of the opening excerpt from Yep’s autobiography The Lost Garden. -Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture. -Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture. -Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture in Dragonwings Focus Question: -“What does it mean to fit into another culture?” Class Work: -Read the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist -Mark the text for main ideas, important details, figurative language -Write the “gist” of this excerpt in your journal -Identify unfamiliar words and phrases -Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions -Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective -Work collaboratively to complete pages 11-13 in materials packet Homework: Respond to the following question in your journal: -“What does it mean to fit into another culture?”

2. Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/4/14 Content Objective: Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her perspective. (RL.6.6a) Learning Objective: -Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture. -Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture. -Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture in Dragonwings Class Work: -Review the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist -Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions -Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective -Work collaboratively to complete pages 11-13 in materials packet Vocabulary: -Opium, opium den Homework: Review chapter 4. Create a chart to answer the following questions: “What is Moon Shadow’s point of view of the opium dens? How do you know?” Use evidence flags to identify three text details from the rest of this chapter to support your answer.

3. Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/5/14 Content Objective: Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her perspective. (RL.6.6a) Learning Objective: -Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture. -Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture. -Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into another culture in Dragonwings Class Work: -Review the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist (p. 49-50 or 66- 67) beginning with “The first time we went out…” and ending at “Father saw how I clutched the seat…” -Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions -Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective -Work collaboratively to complete pgs. 11-12 and p. 17 in materials packet Homework: Reading: “The Crime in the Neighborhood” Excerpt from The Lost Garden (Lesson 7); Mark the text for main ideas and important details - Write the gist of this passage.

4. Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/6/14 Content Objective: Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her perspective. (RL.6.6a) Learning Objective: - I can find the gist of the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt. -I can identify details in the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police. -I can infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police. Class Work: -Read the excerpt “Ccrime in the Neighborhood” -Identify unfamiliar words and phrases -Find the gist -Identify Cultural Details through questions from the text -Work collaboratively to complete page 10-11(Lesson 7) in materials packet Vocabulary -Proclamations, dirigible, grieves, resenting, confrontation, desperate, moronic, scuttled, fox Homework: Vocabulary

5. Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/6/14 Content Objective: Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her perspective. (RL.6.6a) Learning Objective: - I can find the gist of the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt. -I can identify details in the Crime in the Neighborhood excerpt that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police. - I can infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police. Class Work: -Review: “The Crime in the Neighborhood” Excerpt from The Lost Garden -Identify Cultural Details through questions from the text -Work collaboratively to complete page 11 (Lesson 7) in materials packet Focus Question: * “What was Moon Shadow’s point of view of Black Dog after he stole the collection money?” Vocabulary -Proclamations, dirigible, grieves, resenting, confrontation, desperate, moronic, scuttled, fox Homework: Read Chapter 5 up to page 108, stopping after “… all the others in the room could feel it too.” Answer the focus question in your journal Use evidence flags to identify three text details from this section of Chapter 5 to support your answer.

6. Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/7/14 Content Objective: Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or her perspective. (RL.6.6a) Determine the meaning of literal, connotative, and figurative language (metaphors and similes) in literary text. (RL.6.4) Learning Objective: Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on the police in Dragonwings. Explain what connotative language is and identify the meaning of connotative language. Class Work: -Connotation and Denotation (ppt. and C.N.) -Guided and independent practice -Exit Ticket Vocabulary -Proclamations, dirigible, grieves, resenting, confrontation, desperate, moronic, scuttled, fox Homework: Read Chapter 6