Monday,+August+26

Today's Learning Goals:
Students will determine the author's purpose and cite specific evidence from the text used to develop this purpose. RL.10.1, RL.10.2

Bell Work: Weekly Rhetorical Strategy (Model and Definition)
Copy the model sentence and the definitions on your index card.

Connotation- feelings, images, and meanings associated with a word
(Turn in HW journal entry from Excerpt 3!)

Discussion and Modeling: The "So What?"
What do I mean by "So what?" Student Sample Charts

Small Group Practice
Charts
 * Question- (Focus on author's purpose)
 * It Says...
 * I Say...
 * And So... (Should get to the "so what")

Gallery Walk and Discuss

Homework
Start journaling from your independent reading novel! Have a journal entry ready to show me tomorrow!