Monday, March 30, 2015

Warm Up: 
Rocky Top Survey-4th Period
20 Minutes of independent reading (This is week #33)
Mini-Lesson Topic:
Reading Information: Standard #4 (Craft and Structure)
Close Reading: The Great Fire
Question(s) to guide learning:
How do the words that an author uses help to convey the meaning and tone of a passage? 

Work Time: 

Close reading of the excerpt from The Great Fire
1) Think-Pair-Share the first sentence from the text, "Chicago in 1871 was a city ready to burn." (Murphy)
2) Read the text excerpt: The Great Fire
3) Look for examples of figurative langugae
4) Quick Write
How students will know they are successful:

I can determine the literal and figurative meaning of words based on context clues. 
I can analyze the impact of word choice on the tone and meaning of the passage. 

Debrief: 
Quick Write: Look at the first sentence of the excerpt The Great Fire. What was Murphy's purpose for writing the first sentence? How did his word choice affect meaning, visualization, and comprehension of the passage?
Homework:
Independent reading (At least 30 minutes) EVERY day! Yes, even on the weekends!
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Notes:

The Chicago Fire of 1871, also called the Great Chicago Fire, burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, and destroyed thousands of buildings, killed an estimated 300 people and caused an estimated $200 million in damages. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans or even a meteor might have been responsible for the event that left an area of about four miles long and almost a mile wide of the Windy City, including its business district, in ruins. Following the blaze, reconstruction efforts began quickly and spurred great economic development and population growth.

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