1. English 11R
Ms. Livingston

2. Grade Level 11H Time Required: 43 Unit: 1 Standards to be addressed: Standards associated with CCELAR

3. Today’s Goal: To learn how to do a close reading of a text.
Welcome to English! 9/22/2015
Today’s Goal: To learn how to do a close reading of a text.
Complete anything you need to on yesterday’s activity sheet (reflection, self-assessments)
Take an activity sheet and write today’s goal at the top.
Homework:
-Send in your extra credit video by 9/22
-Finish both stories by Thursday
-Quiz and sentences due on Friday

4. Benchmark: Close Reading

5. Takeaways from the video

6. Your Purpose for reading
What is the author’s message? (what is the author saying?)
What writing strategies show that message? (what is the author doing? )

7. Close Reading – Annotation
What an author says
Annotations should help you…
Visualize
Clarify
Respond
Summarize
Connect
Question
What an author does
Annotations should point out…
Elements of Language
Figurative Langauge
Literary Elements
Literary Techniques
Sound Devices
Overall Voice and Style Analysis

8. Close Reading Symbols
* = important ! = surprising ? = confusing

9. Clean Up Check in with your Activity Sheet
Put your Activity Sheet in Pending/Work in Progress
Put your folder in the turn-in bin

10. Lesson Components Formative Assessment
Student pre-assessment (do now) and post-assessment (reflection)
Discussion responses
Classwork
Adaptations
Teacher models activity
Product is scaffold with modeling throughout the process
Partner-work and pair-shares
Extensions
Students write level 3 questions and answer them; create a second acrostic
Technology (for the UNIT)
Ipads and LATIC systems
Projection of PPT on Interactive Whiteboard
Class website
Turnitin.com
Remind.com
Materials
Activity Lists
Paper
PPT