1. Literature: Monday, January 7, 2019
Handouts: * Reading Chart for January 7 – * Point of View (Discovery Ed handout)
Homework: * Read your AR book and meet your AR goal: The AR deadline this quarter is this Thursday, Jan * Point of View (time provided in class)
Assignments Due: [Hand in make-up work for absences] * Independent Reading Chart for Dec. 17 – * If you have not met your AR goal, charts for: Dec. 24 – Dec. 31 – Jan. 6

2. Today’s Goal: Read and analyze a memoir depicting life in China during the Cultural Revolution (The Landlord’s Daughter, PDF).
Outcomes:
Define “point of view” related to a context other than “first, second, or third person.”
Explain why knowing the author’s “point of view” is important in informational writing.
Define what a memoir is and explain why it belongs to the genre of “informational reading.”
Describe what the Cultural Revolution was and explain how it impacted Chinese citizens.
Evaluate the author’s dilemma and decide how you would respond to her conflict.

3. Starter #1:
In informational writing, what is meant by the term “point of view”?
Sometimes when we speak of viewpoint, we are referring to first, second, or third person writing—whether the author is a character in the story or writing as an outside observer. But in informational writing, there is another meaning for “point of view” (or viewpoint). Can you guess what we mean by that term in informational writing?
Today’s Discovery Ed video explains what we mean by this kind of “point of view” and shows why it’s so important in evaluating informational articles.
[View Discovery Ed “Point of View” video]

4. Starter #2:
I’m going to show you a word that may be new to all of you. But if you look at the word closely, it may remind you of another word that is familiar to you. Raise your hand if you can name the word you know that’s closely related to this new term:
“Memoir”
“Memoir” (pronounced “mem-war”) may remind you of what other word that you do know?
It sounds like the word “memory,” and for good reason—a “memoir” is a person’s recollection of something that happened in their past. The author writes a story based on what he or she remembers, and the story stories may go back to one’s childhood.
Today we are going to read a memoir written by a woman who is close to my age, but she is writing from the viewpoint of someone your age. In other words, she is looking back to a true account from when she was 12 years old.
On your Chromebook, please call up “The Landlord’s Granddaughter.”