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2. Do Now! Read all the directions below. Answer the question on your sheet. Give a specific, important detail to support your thinking. Explain your thinking. You have 5 minutes to complete this. There is to be no talking.

3. Read it! Introduction to part 1 Page 3 Set a purpose for reading: What is Wes’s purpose in including this information in the introduction to part I?

4. diaphanous “I pulled back the thin diaphanous curtain that covered the window and spotted my friend Ayana outside with her mother” (TOWM 7) Miller supplied her stores with roles of the diaphanous tissue printed with animals on a whim she said. Using the sentences above and context clues, what do you think the word diaphanous means? Why?

5. diaphanous very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent delicately hazy adjective it will be used to describe a noun (person, place, thing, idea) curtain tissue cloud synonyms/related words: sheer, transparent, delicate, flimsy

6. Read it! Chapter 1: first section Page 5-6 Set a purpose for reading: What information are you looking for? What do you need to know in order to answer the questions?

7. Flubble Map Combination of a Flow Map and a Bubble map Flow Map shows a sequence of events. Bubble maps show the characteristics of something

8. Flubble Map Combination of a Flow Map and a Bubble map Event 1Event 2

9. Flubble Map: How to Start with the flow map part Event 1Event 2

10. Flubble Map: How to Next, add words or phrases that tell what you learned about Wes from that event. Event 1Event 2 A B CD

11. Flubble Map: How to Then add Event 1Event 2 A B CD a b cd

12. Circle Map A circle map is used to define or describe something. Wes’s Mom The topic goes in the center. Words describing the topic go in the larger circle. Outside the circle goes the evidence that supports the description. large Thomas Hands

13. Time to Write! Read all the directions below. Answer the questions on your sheet. Use as many words necessary to preserve the gist of each memory. If you have more than one memory for the question, create a bulleted list. You have 5 minutes to complete 4 questions well. There is to be no talking. If you have completed 4 of the questions before time is up, raise your hand.

14. Time to Write! Read all the directions below. 1.What are my earliest memories? How far back can I remember? 2.What are the most important things that have happened to me in my life so far? 3.What have I seen that I can’t forget? 4.What’s an incident that shows what my family and I are like? 5.What’s an incident that shows what my friends and I are like? 6.What’s something that happened to me at school that I’ll always remember? 7.What’s something that happened to me at home that I’ll always remember? 8.What is an incident that changed how I feel about something? 9.What is an incident that changed my life?

15. Time to write This novel is a memoir. It focuses on one idea, challenges, and looks at how that idea affected the path the character’s lives took. You too have faced challenges and have had events that have and will continue to shape your life.

16. Time to write Choose one of your memories from above and write your memories of it. You may need to plan before you begin. If you begin to write and then get stuck, create a list or flow map of the events surrounding the memory you chose. Your focus today as you write should be the structure of your narrative.