Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Objectives: Students will continue to use active reading strategies to annotate an informational text.  Students will also analyze the use of metaphors, tone, mood, theme, setting, conflict, and character development in an informational text.

SWBAT:  Write a detailed summary highlighting key points from the first two pages of Zora Neale Hurston's essay "“How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”

Do Now:

Take a 3X5 card.

Write a 3-5 sentence summary of the first page (what you read for homework) of Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels To Be Colored Me."
START LIKE THIS:

The first part of Zora Neale Hurston's essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” takes place in _____________________, an exclusively ___________________.    On the first page, the little girl...

Class Activities:

1.  Review of figurative language - metaphors
2.  Guided practice - analyze the metaphor in the 3rd paragraph of Hurston's essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me."
3.  Group work - analyze another metaphor from this essay and to answer guided reading questions.