Paragraph Structure, Contextual Vocabulary, and Socratic Seminar- 8/21

Opening:

-Students will complete the reading quiz for chapters 1-3

Work Session:

-Students will complete the exercises for paragraph structure from the COACH workbooks

-As a class we will discuss the correct answers
 -Students will discuss contextual vocabulary by discussing and taking brief notes (IN) on syntax, prior knowledge, and cultural knowledge to determine unfamiliar words and phrases
-The following example from the Author's Note in Into the Wild will be analyzed:

”When the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertained to illusions that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking. And that is what he found in abundance.”

Bold=figurative language, colloquialisms

Red= word geography (interdisciplinary) and context, word pattern

Green= Prior knowledge, socio-cultural knowledge (interdisciplinary)
-Colored sections of the paragraph will be highlighted and discussed in relation to the notes

-Students will engage in a structured Socratic Seminar, using questions taken from the Into the Wild reading log

-Students will transpose reading log questions into their interactive notebooks and answer them as the seminar progresses

-If time permits we will view a few more clips from the movie version of “Into the Wild”

Summarizer:

-Students will complete the 3-2-1 Countdown

Daily Homework:

-Students should read chapters 4-6 from Into the Wild