Master Teacher lessons
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Kick it up a notch with the right ingredients for fiction!
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Using the signpost model, kids locate moments of contrast in characters, using their Middle East/Asia novels.
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In order to truly understand the difference between the two modes of writing that I'm teaching right now, students needed to compare/contrast.
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"A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Students dive into some very complex text to analyze it using the close reading strategies.
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Using some silent discourse, students will name when writers use narrative effectively and identify what makes it effective.
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Poetry analysis lesson differentiated by ability using Wordsworth’s “Daffodils.”
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Reading a story about a young girl who learns the true meaning of freedom sets the stage for this exploration of text structure.
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Can students do it on their own?
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What are the defining characteristics that make this novel historical fiction?
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Students become word experts and master the skill of using resources to define unknown words.
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In our first day in our new "worktext," we look at the learning focus, and begin our journey to narrative texts.
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Support your claim!
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Students will use a plot diagram and create a new story using an online story starter generator.
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"The tools of conquest lie within us" Students finish our study of conflict using the teleplay "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."
