Objectives: Today I will
Homework:
Agenda:
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- use context clues to infer the meaning of vocabulary words
- and gather context for the play
Homework:
- Read & prepare for your Book Talk (see the sign-up calendar in the classroom if you forgot which date you're presenting on!)
- Kindness Challenge due December 20
- Vocabulary Choice Responses due December 16
Agenda:
- Open your A Christmas Carol packet to the Post Activity Self-Reflection page. Answer each question in at least 3 complete sentences.
- Vocabulary Choice Board
- While reading A Christmas Carol, we may come across unfamiliar words.
- By practicing using these words, we will better understand the play when we read it!
- Read the sentences on the Choice Board. (The vocabulary word is bolded.)
- Then look at the Vocabulary Words Match-up.
- Use context clues from the sentences to try to match vocabulary words to the correct definitions.
- Over the course of the unit, you will need to answer 12 of the Vocabulary Choice Board questions.
- Answer the questions in complete sentences on the response pages.
- While reading A Christmas Carol, we may come across unfamiliar words.
- Background Context Jigsaw
- Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in London in 1843.
- Many things have changed since then!
- We are going to read sections of the text, “Dickens’ London” to better understand the context in which Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
- Use these nonfiction reading strategies as you read your section of the text:
- What surprised you as you read?
- What did the author of the text already assume you knew?
- What challenged, changed, or confirmed your thinking?
- What surprised you as you read?
- Then, find four important facts to summarize your section of the reading. Write these on your Reading Guide.
- Form a group with people who read different sections than you!
- There should be a 1, 2, and 3 in your group, otherwise you won’t have all the information.
- There should be a 1, 2, and 3 in your group, otherwise you won’t have all the information.
- In order, share your four-fact summary of the section.
- Write down the information you learn about the other sections on the Reading Guide.
- Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in London in 1843.
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