1. Dragonwings: Ch. 3: 1/23/14 Objective: Learning Targets: Class Work:
Determine the meaning of literal and figurative language (metaphors and similes) in literary text. (RL.6.4)
Analyze how an author’s word choice affects tone and meaning in a literary text. (RL.6.4)
Analyze how a particular sentence, stanza, scene, or chapter fits in and contributes to the development of a literary text. (RL.6.5)
Analyze how an author develops a narrator or speaker’s point of view. (RL.6.6)
Learning Targets:
- Find the gist of pages 41–43 and 60–61 of Dragonwings.
- Determine the meaning of figurative language.
- Analyze how the words affect tone and meaning.
- Explain how a chapter fits into a theme.
- Analyze how Laurence Yep develops Moon Shadow’s point of view of his father.
Class Work:
Reread pages and and complete gist for those pages
Analyze point of view for these pages
Vocabulary:
tamed (41), crystal set, filaments (42), reassuring, superior, devices (43), newfound (60)
Homework:
Vocabulary
Lesson 4

2. Dragonwings: Ch. 3: 1/27-28 Objective: Learning Targets:
Determine the meaning of literal, connotative, and figurative
language (metaphors and similes) in literary text. (RL.6.4)
- Analyze how an author’s word choice affects tone and meaning in a literary text. (RL.6.4)
- Analyze how a particular sentence, stanza, scene, or chapter fits in and contributes to the development of a literary text. (RL.6.5)
- Analyze how an author develops a narrator or speaker’s point of view. (RL.6.6)
Learning Targets:
- Analyze how the words affect tone and meaning.
- Explain how a chapter fits into a theme.
Analyze how Laurence Yep develops Moon Shadow’s point of view of
his father.
Focus Question:
“What does Moon Shadow think about the demons?”
Class Work:
Work in groups to identity figurative language and it’s effect
Work in groups to identify the tone and how the author creates it
Homework:
- Answer the focus question. Use evidence flags to identify three text details from the chapter to support your answer. Code each flag as a thought, word, or action to show the technique that Laurence Yep used to convey Moon Shadow’s point of view of the demons.
- Read chapter 4 (up to page 70)
Lesson 4

3. Homework: Create a chart in your journal Focus Question: “What does Moon Shadow think about the demons?”
Claim
Evidence
Technique

4. Evidence (cite the evidence)
Classwork: 1/27/14 Focus Question: “What is Moon Shadow’s point of view of his father?”
Claim
Evidence (cite the evidence)
Word Choice (tone)
Moon Shadow feels connected to his father.
He knows his father is proud to show off his strange machines to him.
He’s not sure he trusts his father yet.