Thursday,+January+23

Today's Objectives
RI.10.2 Determine a central idea of a text; provide an objective summary. RI.10.4 Analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone. RI.10.6 Determine an author's purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that purpose.

Finish Presentations!
Finish presenting research projects.

The Language of Freedom

 * Read and annotate the excerpt from Mandela's autobiography, //Long Walk to Freedom//.
 * As you annotate, underline EVERY instance of the words "free" or "freedom."
 * Highlight a sentence with "free" or "freedom" in it that you find the most impactful. Make it a sentence that you think really stands out.
 * In a circle, each student reads his/her highlighted sentence. What words and ideas did we hear again and again? Why?

Writing
Look at a sample chunk from last time. Look at the highlighting on your chunk. What could you do to improve your analytical writing? On a half sheet of paper, write a chunk. Focus on DIDLS and how his writing choices work to achieve purpose.