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Homework

for Week of

May 17th -May 21st

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

 

-Read

 

 

 

 

 


 

An Investigation on the Art of Short Stories

Guiding Questions:

  • Is there a secret to reading?
  • What makes one story more memorable than another?
  • What does it mean to be a “critical” reader?

 

Over-Arching Learning Targets:

  • I can use various strategies to help unlock the meaning of unfamiliar words. This means I will need to use context clues, the structure or parts of the unfamiliar word, my background knowledge and then confirm the word’s meaning using a dictionary.
  • I can name the seven key reading strategies and the purpose they serve when reading a work of literature or a challenging text. This means I will need to be able to name the seven reading strategies, give examples of when they are appropriate to use and explain in brief what they can reveal to me as a reader.
  • I can articulate what reading strategy I used and how it helped me while reading an assigned piece of text or literary work. This means I need to use the reading strategies and pay attention to how using them helped me with reading the piece of text.
  • I can demonstrate my knowledge of literary elements when reading a short story. This means I will need to know how to diagram the plot of a story, describe the traits of characters, infer the author’s purpose or intended theme, and identify the conflict of the story.
  • I can list a literary device the author used in piece of writing and consider the affect it had on the overall narration of the story. This means I will need to be able to point out where the author used such devices as foreshadowing, flashbacks, figurative language and/or dialogue in a piece of work.
  • I can use excerpts from a given story to support my inferences, predictions, or answers about various literary elements in the story. This means I will need to find a relevant passage in the story that backs my thoughts or interpretations and then describe the connection between the excerpt and my thinking. This also means I will need to know how to cite excerpts from a published text.
  • I can write a response to a piece of writing that highlights literary elements and my own personal response to the piece of writing.