1. U4-R8 RL.6.4: Word Meanings: Figurative, Connotative, & Technical for Dragonwings
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

2. Do Now…
The man flung a look back along the way he had come. The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow…North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hair—line that curved and twisted from around the spruce—covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce—covered island….
In the paragraph, what connotation does the word flung add to the first sentence?
caution
haste
terror
anger
Read the paragraph. Think about the figurative, connotative, & technical meanings of the underlined phrase.
Continue to think about how context clues are important throughout class, gathering new ideas & details.
Prepare to discuss & defend ideas and questions in Closing Starbucks with TBE and logical reasoning.

3. ML: Close Readers analyze word meanings (figurative, connotative, & technical) to determine better comprehension.
L.6.4; RI.6.1; RL.6.4
DOK.4, DOK.3

4. Does the personification apply to a thing or animal?
MODEL…Watch how I analyze and use various strategies to analyze figurative meanings so that I can better understand the whole of a text.
At the man’s heels trotted a dog, a big native husky… The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for traveling. Its instinct told a truer tale than was told to the man by the man’s judgment… The dog had learned fire, and it wanted fire…
Read this example of personification from the text.
Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man’s judgment.
What does it mean that the dog’s instinct “told it a truer tale”?
The dog did not believe that the man could build a fire
The dog’s sharper hearing could tell where the ice was thin.
The dog had a better sense of the danger they were in.
The dog remembered another time when the man got wet.
Does the personification apply to a thing or animal?
Are there are other sentences that help me think clearer about the figure of speech?
How does this personification function in the sentence/text?
What feeling is associated with the personification?

5. Quick Assessment…RI.6.4 (MYA, NYST & U4-R7)
Read the following excerpt from Dragonwings. What does Moon Shadow’s figurative explanation of how the gliders fly refer to?
After Father got the first letter, he began to make larger glider models. They were mock-ups of the actual aero-plane, with wingspans of up to five feet. There were extra strings that led to the various rudders. The idea was to let Father see for himself how the aeroplane flew. Short of going to the Wrights and letting them teach us on their actual flying machine, it was the only way of learning how to fly.
Robin was all excited by the mock-up gliders my father built. “How does it fly?” she demanded of the latest model.
“Like dream,” I said. “You ought see it ride winds. Like cloud.”
a. how it moves
b. How it sounds
c. How it looks
d. How it feels

6. Independent Work…skill RI.6.4 (MYA, NYST & U4-R7)
Group 1- Meeting Area…
Read and annotate the passage.
Using I.T.T.A. answer the short response question.
Use clues to determine word meanings.
Answer the Multiple-Choice Questions.
Meet with Book-Partner…Read Dragonwings chapter 9 “The Dragon Wakes”
Question: “Why is Moon Shadow’s first thought a dragon is causing the earth to shake? Find examples of descriptive language to support your response.
Key Voc.: to undulate, ominously, querulous, tottering
Group 2- Independently…
Read and annotate the passage using context clues to determine word meanings.
Write a clear QW using I.T.T.A. to answer the short response.
Question: “Why is Moon Shadow’s first thought a dragon causing the earth to shake? Find the example of descriptive language to support your response.