1. Choices and Consequences
Lesson 3.4

2. Learning Targets (p.172) Today in class, I will…
Understand how textual details contribute to a novel’s mood and atmosphere.
Analyze textual evidence about choices and consequences and record commentary in a double-entry journal.

3. Essential Questions
Use the Think-Pair-Share strategy to answer the essential questions.
How is the setting important in this novel?
How does the setting help create the mood?

4. Word Wall Vocab.
Under vocabulary tab in your binder place your word wall handout, and write the following definition.
Setting: the time and place in which the story occurs.
Atmosphere: the feeling created by a literary work or passage.
Mood: how you feel when reading based on a literary work or passage.

5. Double-Entry Journal Responses could include the following:
Questions about things you don’t understand
Opinions about characters or plot events
Connections you make to real life or other texts
Predictions about how characters will react
Inferences about why characters are saying or doing things.

6. Reading Part 1 Read pages 7-28 in the novel, Tangerine.
Complete the your double-entry journal based on what your read in this section.

7. Neighborhood Map (p.172)
The setting is very important in this novel because it sets the atmosphere and the reader’s mood. Draw a map of Paul’s new neighborhood based on pages You may add to the map as the novel continues.

8. Group Discussion/Notes
What is one choice a character made in this section of the novel?
What consequences were involved in the choice that character made?