1. ELA MS. SONI 2-29-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the author’s choice for choosing different techniques in order to create specific effects as evidenced from the literary techniques graphic organizer. * Topic: Analyzing Author’s Choice Lines 135-144 * EQ: How can we explain the different techniques the author utilizes in order to create specific effects in the story? * DO NOW/ Quickwrite: * How has Sergei changed over the course of the text?

2. ELA MS. SONI 2-29-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the author’s choice for choosing different techniques in order to create specific effects as evidenced from the literary techniques graphic organizer. * Mini lesson: * 1) I will explain to students that authors choose different techniques in order to create specific effects. For example, they may want to create mystery, tension, or even surprise. * 2) Sergei is an impulsive person because he uses his first two wishes without even thinking. However, his first two wishes were to help someone else. Just as when he hits Yoni, he has acted on impulse to protect something (the goldfish) or someone (his family) he cared about. His wishes were selfless, but hitting Yoni is selfish because he does not want to lose the magic goldfish.

3. ELA MS. SONI 2-29-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the author’s choice for choosing different techniques in order to create specific effects as evidenced from the literary techniques graphic organizer. * Guided Practice: * 1) I will ask the students what technique does the author use in order to tell us about Sergei’s wishes? * -Flashback * 2) What effect does this have? * -It increases the tension (mental or emotional strain) while providing information about Sergei.

4. ELA MS. SONI 2-29-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the author’s choice for choosing different techniques in order to create specific effects as evidenced from the literary techniques graphic organizer. * Independent work: * 1)You all will work in pairs and will choose quotes which reflect specific techniques that the author us using such as mystery, flashback, tension, flash- forward or any other ones and will then wrote the effect that the technique has.

5. ELA MS. SONI 2-29-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the author’s choice for choosing different techniques in order to create specific effects as evidenced from the literary techniques graphic organizer. * Summary: Answer EQ question. * Assessment: Analysis of Author’s Choice in lines 135-144 based on the graphic organizer.

6. ELA MS. SONI 3-02-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have as evidenced from the textual evidence in their graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Lines 159-166 * EQ: How can we evaluate the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have? * DO NOW/ Quickwrite: * What kind of relationship does Sergei have with the goldfish?

7. ELA MS. SONI 3-02-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have as evidenced from the textual evidence in their graphic organizers. * Mini lesson: * 1) Sergei is an impulsive person because he uses his first two wishes without even thinking. However, his first two wishes were to help someone else. Just as when he hits Yoni, he has acted on impulse to protect something (the goldfish) or someone (his family) he cared about. His wishes were selfless, but hitting Yoni is selfish because he does not want to lose the magic goldfish. * 3) Authors can reveal information about characters by describing the observation that other characters make about them.

8. ELA MS. SONI 3-02-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have as evidenced from the textual evidence in their graphic organizers. * GUIDED PRACTICE: * What kind of relationship does Sergei and the goldfish have? What does this say about Sergei?

9. ELA MS. SONI 3-02-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have as evidenced from the textual evidence in their graphic organizers. * GUIDED PRACTICE answer: * -They know each other well, which means that they have been together for a long time. Sergei knows the fish is excited at the prospect of being set free because it swishes its tail back and forth (lines 159-161). The fish knows that Sergei has a good heart and is not a murderer. The fish is so sure that Sergei will do the right thing and use his last wish to save Yoni that he holds his head steady even when Sergei is trying to come up with another plan in order to clean up the mess (lines 164-166). * -The passage shows that Sergei is willing to try anything in order to not be alone.

10. ELA MS. SONI 3-02-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have as evidenced from the textual evidence in their graphic organizers. * Independent work: * 1) You will work in pairs in order to truly understand the end of the story through a sequence of events graphic organizer. * 2) You will reread lines 167-175 and lines 176- 188. You will discuss what is happening in the first space of the graphic organizer and will also discuss what is happening in the second passage and will fill in that space as well. * 3) You must work together in order to infer and describe what is taking place between these two events. * 4) Remember an inference is combining what you have just read with what you already know.

11. ELA MS. SONI 3-02-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the type of relationship that Sergei and the goldfish have as evidenced from the textual evidence in their graphic organizers. * Summary: Answer EQ question. * - What do lines 176-181 show about the central idea (message/moral of the story/general saying or statement) the story?

12. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * * EQ: How can we analyze the complex character of Sergei Goralick by finding clues about his traits, considering his motivations, and finding the reasons behind his actions? * DO NOW/ Quickwrite: * What kind of traits makes a character complex?

13. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * * DO NOW Answer: * 1) Characters who are complex have different personality traits such as Sergei being violent and also selfless. * 2) Complex characters grow throughout a story.

14. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * -A good fictional character is complex, just like a real person and the author develops his/her unique personality throughout the course of the story.

15. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * -Additionally you can understand a character based on the motivations behind his/her actions. A character may have two conflicting motivations for the same action. For example, Yoni makes the video first thinking about commercial gain, but at the same time, he hopes to create a serious documentary.

16. ELA MS. SONI 3-04-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * * EQ: How can we continue to analyze Sergei’s character motivations? * DO NOW/ Quickwrite: * How would you define character motivations?

17. ELA MS. SONI 3-04-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * * EQ: How can we continue to analyze Sergei’s character motivations? * Quickwrite: Character motivations are the reasons behind a character’s actions and what prompts them to actually do something!

18. ELA MS. SONI 3-04-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. -Internal Conflict: The mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses. * Example: Sergei struggles with his feelings of not wanting to be alone versus using his last wish on Yoni. * External Conflict: The struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot. * EX: Sergei’s Conflict with Yoni

19. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations * Guided Practice: * -We are going to work together as a class in order to create a concept map which reflects Sergei’s character traits and motivations – basically any words or phrases which represent Sergei. * EXAMPLE (EJEMPLO): * Selfless Sergei

20. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations Independent work: 1) Students will fill out a graphic organizer regarding things that Sergei says, acts like, thinks, and how he interacts with other characters in one column, while in the other column, the students will answer questions regarding Sergei’s motivations as a character.

21. ELA MS. SONI 3-03-16 * Objective: SWBAT analyze the numerous character traits which allow a character to be complex as evidenced from their character analysis graphic organizers. * Topic: Analyzing Character Motivations Summary: Answer EQ question. Assessment: Analysis of Sergei Goralick as a Character.