1. COMM ARTS-DAY 4 Please take out a sheet of paper and a pencil/pen silently. Put the proper heading on your paper. Clear everything from your desk. Your quiz is to be done on a separate sheet of paper. You may begin the quiz or wait for directions.

2. Summative Assessment FCAS for Character Trait Quiz: Learning Goal: Students will be able to understand how to support their ideas with sufficient relevant details. Choose the BEST character trait1 Student’s explanation is relevant to the story AND support the selected character trait 2 Student uses relevant and sufficient detail from the text AND cited 2 Your Question: What is the BEST character trait to describe Theseus? a.Strong b.Courageous c.Risk-taker d.Hopeful

3.  Learning Goal: Analyze how heroes interact with or impact others and their surroundings in literature and real life.  Essential Question: Can heroes impact the way people react or act?

4. Reading Strategies  Questioning  Making Connections (thoughts)  Summarizing  Visualizing  Inferring  Predicting  I’m confused…fix up strategies

5. Birdfoot’s Grampa p. 33  During the first reading use at least three of your reading strategies.  During the second reading they should write down what is the main idea, what’s happening?  During the third reading who is the hero? How does the poet tell us? Students will then share their answers to both questions in small groups followed by the whole class.

6. Class Discussion  How does the speaker view the old man’s actions?  What are some different views of heroism suggested by this poem?  How is this different description then the texts we’ve read in the past?

7. Exit Ticket  How did Birdfoot’s Grampa impact the author?  Did it have any impact on you?

8. Homework  Enjoy your weekend!  Next week we will finish up our Type 3 and begin looking at more poetry.