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2. Today you will need: Maniac Magee Handouts Characterization Homework
Tuesday October 4, 2016
Today you will need:
Maniac Magee Handouts
Characterization Homework
Bell Challenge
Pencil

3. Tuesday October 4, 2016 Today’s Agenda
Bell Challenge – What do you notice?
Maniac Magee Project
Reading Chapters 29-34
Characterization Homework
Objective Summary
Homework – Maniac Magee Project

4. Invitation to Compare & Contrast
Bell Challenge
Invitation to Compare & Contrast
 Compare and contrast the model sentence from yesterday with the imitation sentence below.
IMITATION SENTENCE
 My father was wrong! I DON”T need my parents to tell me what to do!
What do you notice?

5. Chapters
Maniac Magee

6. Criteria for Success
At the end of today’s lesson, we will demonstrate our understanding of the text, Maniac Magee, by writing an objective summary.

7. What is an objective summary?
Ponder It! Discuss It!

8. Writing Objective Summaries Review
Mini-Lesson

9. Objective Summary Key Vocabulary DETERMINE: Decide, figure out
CENTRAL IDEA: The chief point an author is making about a topic; the author’s primary message. Sometimes the central idea is stated, but sometimes it must be inferred.
ANALYZE: Study closely; break down into key parts
DEVELOPMENT: The building of an idea/ideas throughout a text.
RELATIONSHIP: A connection between two or more ideas, events, individuals, etc.
SUPPORTING IDEAS: Facts, statements, specifics, and examples that clarify, explain, and describe the central idea.

10. Objective Summary
To “determine a central idea” of a text means to figure out the author’s main point or message about a topic.
Examine the title and any blurbs included before the body of the text
Pay close attention to the opening and closing paragraphs
What is the topic?
Why has the author written about the topic (purpose—inform, entertain, persuade)?
What point or points has the author made about the topic?

11. Objective Summary
When you “analyze its [a central idea’s] development over the course of the text including its relationship to supporting ideas” you closely study how the author has built his or her main point/primary message. You find examples in the text that help the author emphasize his or her main point about a topic.
Look at the body paragraphs of the text.
What examples is the author using to make his or her point?
Think about the who, what, when, where, why, and how about the topic.

12. Objective Summary To “provide an objective summary,” you must…
Determine the central idea
Find important details that the author uses to develop the central idea and communicate them in your own words
Be clear, concise, and brief
Leave out minor details and your own personal opinion

13. Writing an objective summary
Step One--Topic Sentence
Name It:
Identify the title of the text and the author.
Use one of the following summary verbs: shows, describes, explains, discusses, explores, illustrates, teaches, etc.
Communicate the author’s central idea.
Step Two—Essential/Key Ideas
Find supporting details from the beginning, middle, and end of the text to show how the author develops the central idea.
USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
Step Three—Concluding Sentence
Wrap up the objective summary.

14. Objective Summary Model
Maniac Magee, written by Jerry Spinelli follows an orphaned boy named Jeffery Lionel Magee as he seeks out a home and confronts the racism of the 1980s/1990s in the fictional city of Two Mills, Pennsylvania. After Jeffery Magee's parents die in a car accident, he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle. However, their fraught marriage drives him to (literally) run away to the city of Two Mills, Pennsylvania. There, Jeffery meets Amanda Beale, a resident of the African-American section of Two Mills - East End - and an avid reader of books and encyclopedias. Jeffery soon earns her friendship through his interest in reading and begins to grow in notoriety due to his associations with black children and adults, confrontation of town bullies, and wowing of crowds in a series of sports games. Maniac moves around from house to house, living with the Beales, then with the zoo keeper Earl Grayson, and then with the McNabs. Maniac Magee faces negativity due to his race throughout the book, but he eventually finds a home through the friends who come to love him as family.

15. Maniac Magee Project Task
Write an objective summary of the text for chapters 1 through 32.
Remember your objective summary must have:
Topic Sentence
Essential/Key Ideas
Concluding Sentence

16. Elements of Plot
Mini-Review Lesson

17. Elements of Plot

18. Identifying the Elements of A Plot Diagram
Student Notes

19. Plot Diagram 3 4 2 1 5

20. Plot (definition)
Plot is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story. Every plot is made up of a series of incidents that are related to one another.

21. 1. Exposition
This usually occurs at the beginning of a short story. Here the characters are introduced. We also learn about the setting of the story. Most importantly, we are introduced to the main conflict (main problem).

22. 2. Rising Action
This part of the story begins to develop the conflict(s). A building of interest or suspense occurs.

23. 3. Climax
This is the turning point of the story. Usually the main character comes face to face with a conflict. The main character will change in some way.

24. 4. Falling Action
All loose ends of the plot are tied up. The conflict(s) and climax are taken care of.

25. 5. Resolution
The story comes to a reasonable ending.

26. Putting It All Together
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution
Beginning of Story
Middle of Story
End of Story

27. Maniac Magee Project Homework
Create a plot chart for the text “Maniac Magee”.
You may draw it, print one out, or use the internet to create one.
You must demonstrate how the plot of the text unfolds from chapters 1 through 32.
Websites:
Complete your objective summary!

28. Exit Ticket
If you’re asked to write an objective summary, which of the following should you avoid?
Explaining the resolution of the conflict.
Choosing only the most important details.
Stating the central conflict of the story.
Listing the Major events of the story.
When listing the events of the story, what should you keep in mind when choosing what to list?
Don’t pick events that explain the conflict.
Pick events related to the central theme.
Don’t pick events that spoil the ending.
Don’t pick minor, unimportant events.
When writing the events you’ll want to paraphrase them. Paraphrase means…
To reduce to five sentences or less
To list objectively
To change the wording into your own words