1. Thursday, October 13, 2016 Get your materials out & have a seat!
Today, you will need:
Pencil
Book/Novel
Bell Challenge Handout
Get your materials out & have a seat!
I will tell you when to put your backpacks away.

2. RAFT acronym
Role of the Writer - Who are you as the writer? Are you Sir John A. Macdonald? A warrior? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? The endangered snail darter?
Audience - To whom are you writing? Is your audience the Canadian people? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper? A local bank?
Format - What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified ad? A speech? A poem?
Topic - What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is it to persuade a goddess to spare your life? To plead for a re-test? To call for stricter regulations on logging?

3. Thursday, October 13, 2016 Today’s Agenda
Bell Challenge
Independent Reading
“I was homeless.” & “I lived in a truck” Lesson Introduction
Video
Statistics on Homelessness in America
Mini-Lesson on Informational Nonfiction
“I was Homeless” Activity
Exit Ticket
Argumentative Writing

4. 15 minutes
Independent Reading

5. What do you notice? Bell Challenge
Invitation to Imitate Review the model sentence and the imitation sentence. Use your *READER’S EYES and *WRITER’S EYES to write your imitation sentence. READER’S EYE – Study the patterns and conventions the writer of the model sentence uses. WRITER’S EYE – Write about the world you know.
What do you notice?

6. Video & Written Discussion
“I Lived in A Truck”
Video & Written Discussion

7. “I Lived in a truck” discussion
Rows 1 & 6 – Describe Arielle. What does her attitude about her experience reveal about her personality?
Rows 2 & 4 – What challenges did Arielle and her family face while living in the truck? How did they overcome these challenges?
Row 3 & 5 – Consider the style of the video. How does hearing from Arielle directly affect your understanding of the story? How would the video be different if the narrator spoke the whole time?

8. Reflection Writing Prompt
Revisit your response to the question, what does it mean/look like to be homeless. Think about Arielle’s experience being homelessness and discuss the similarities and differences between your expectations/generalizations of homelessness and the experiences of Arielle and the her family.
Cite evidence from the video and your writing to support your response.

9. Discussion: Partner Share
Discuss the following questions:
How did you envision homelessness and homeless people?
What were some of the characteristics of homelessness that you identified in your writing?
How was Arielle’s experiences with homelessness similar and different from what you envisioned?

10. Homelessness in America What does this say about America
Homelessness in America What does this say about America? What can we predict about the causes of homelessness in America based on this information?

11. Homelessness in America What does this say about America
Homelessness in America What does this say about America? What can we predict about the causes of homelessness in America based on this information?

12. Homelessness in America What does this say about America
Homelessness in America What does this say about America? What can we predict about the causes of homelessness in America based on this information?

13. Elements of Non-Fiction

14. NONFICTION
Nonfiction is writing about real people, places, and events.
Mainly written to convey factual information.
Information may be shaped by the author’s own purpose and attitudes.

15. Two Categories of Nonfiction
Informative- factual information to inform
examples: magazines, pamphlets, encyclopedias, textbooks
Literary- actual places and true events
examples: biographies and autobiographies

16. Informational Non-Fiction
Mini-Lesson

17. Titles Show the main idea of the text
Gives a preview of what the reader is about to read
Helps the reader make connections

18. Title

19. Table of Contents
Lists the major parts of the book and the page numbers
It outlines the main topics of the book
Helps the reader locate information

20. What would you learn about in Chapter 3?
SOILS

21. Subheadings Divide the text into sections
Tell the main idea of each section
Bolded or different colors to focus attention
Help readers locate information

22. Photos/Pictures Captions Help give information in a visual way
Help the reader better understand an idea
Work together with the text to teach information
Captions
Text that tells about a picture or photograph
Helps the reader better understand information
that may not be in the text.

23. What is a question you can ask yourself? Where is the subheading?
What would you write as the caption for the watermelon picture?

24. Diagrams Shows or explains something
Has labels, text and captions to help the reader better understand the diagram
Help the reader better understand how something is made, steps, or the information in the text

25. What does this diagram
Explain?
Photosynthesis

26. Text: Bold, Color, Italics
The style or color of a word sends a message about how to read the text
Important key words are bolded or in color, or both
Italics help words in captions, pictures, titles, and text stand out
Pay close attention to bold text, colored text, or italicized text

27. What is the bolded word?
Why is it bolded?

28. Index
Is an alphabetical listing of key names, terms, events, places, and topics with page numbers.
Helps readers find the information they are looking for.
Usually found at the end of the book.

29. information on magnets, what page would this information be on?
ABC
Order
If you were looking for
information on magnets,
what page would this information be on?
E 10

30. Glossary An alphabetical list of key terms and their definition
Sometimes will tell you how to pronounce the word
Helps the reader better understand key words
Usually found at the end of the book.

31. What’s the definition of reflection?B C
order
What’s the definition of reflection?

32. Elements of Nonfiction Activity
Analyze the text “I Was Homeless”
Number each paragraph.
Look through each page and identify the elements of nonfiction.
On the back of the article, write a brief reflection on how the elements of nonfiction help you to understand the text.

33. Exit Ticket
Argumentative Response Students who are homeless face more challenges than students who are not. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your reasoning and cite evidence from the video, text, and reliable internet sources.