1. Personal Narrative Peer Edit, Nonfiction Gallery walk
Day 36
Personal Narrative Peer Edit, Nonfiction Gallery walk

2. Objectives
Understand and identify the use of adjectives and adverbs in sentences.
Understand and evaluate primary/secondary sources in nonfiction.
HOMEWORK:
Nonfiction test on Friday
LORD OF THE FLIES for Monday

3. Agenda Warm up Personal Narrative Peer edit Nonfiction Gallery walk
Gallery walk correction
Nonfiction Test review sheet
Closure

4. Warm Up – Adverb Exercise
Take out a piece of paper. We are going to do an adverb activity. It is the same as the adjective activity. List all of the adverbs that you think of to fit the word on the following screen.

5. To Swim

6. Personal Narrative – Peer Edit

7. Peer Edit Go to turnitin.com
Click on the assignment labeled “Peermark”
Edit your classmate’s paper.
You must answer the questions about the paper in complete sentences.
Offer constructive criticism.
You can leave comments in the paper if something is unclear or if you really liked a sentence.

8. Peer Edit- This must be completed in class.
Give all of the feedback that you can so they will be able to improve their paper.
You would want the same, right?

9. Nonfiction practice and Review

10. Tips for reading Nonfiction

11. Begin with the title
Make predictions
Consider meanings

12. Read for the author’s main idea
It might be stated thesis…..intro…….conclusion
It might be implied

13. Identify supporting details
Facts
Statistics
Quotes
Anecdotes (story)
Opinions
Descriptions
Examples

14. Distinguish between important and unimportant details

15. Observe the visual features of the text
Charts
Maps
Headings
Photos

16. Observe the organizational features of the text
Compare/contrast
Order of importance (least  most)
Cause- effect
Chronological
Problem/solution
Definition

17. Observe the structural features of the text
Parallelism
Anti thesis
Syntax

18. Determine the Author’s purpose and style

19. Purpose-
To entertain
To inform
To influence
Style
Formal or informal
Elevated or simple
Figurative or literal
To express

20. Tone- the feeling of the author Diction- word choice
Point-of-view- primary vs. secondary
Bias- strong opinion
Appeals- how author attracts the reader
Logos- appeals to the reader’s reason/mind logic
Pathos- appeals to the reader’s emotion/heart passion
Ethos- appeals to the reader’s morals/soul ethics
(right vs. wrong)

21. Draw conclusions/ make inferences

22. Seabiscuit – Page 128
Read “Seabiscuit” in your textbook. Fill out the worksheet as you read.
Turn in the worksheet when you finish.

23. Research after the reading
Read Laura Hillenbrand’s essay, “A Sudden Illness – How My Life Changed,” which appeared in The New Yorker, July 7,
Find answers to the following questions and write them in a new doc:
How did Hillenbrand’s struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome eventually lead her to write Seabiscuit: An American Legend?
How did Hillenbrand first learn about Red Pollard?
Why did his background appeal to her?
Why did Hillenbrand feel a connection with Pollard and Seabiscuit?

24. Book Jacket Project
Based on the information you have gleaned, work in your pairs and create a book jacket for a nonfiction book about Hillenbrand’s life and her struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome.

25. Closure Write: 3 Strategies for studying for our test.
2 nonfiction vocabulary words and their definitions.
1 thing you learned today.