More fun with mentor texts

Golden lines / Golden Gate

Goals: Further practice emulating mentor texts

Read 10 minutes:
Have you started book #2 yet?

Review from Friday:
Open your EJ.
Look at the sentences you wrote Friday.
Link to SOCRATIVE.COM

Absent? 
Sorry, we are working again with mentor sentences in class. It's not something you can do on your own. Ask me for an advisory pass when you get back and I'll help you catch up.

Reminders:
Keep reading.
Check your English Journal for anything you might be missing or need to finish.

Memoirs and Mentor Texts

Goals: Finish connecting to memoirs and learn about mentor texts.

Read:
Books are awesome.

Reading Progress: 
Tell me about your book today. 

Finish sharing memoirs:

• Share out the remaining memoirs in your group. 
• Be sure to add your closest similar experience to your chart. 

Learning about mentor texts:

• Keep your English Journal open. 
• Add a new entry for today at the top.
• Go answer this question. 

Are you absent?
That's too bad. You're missing a good lesson today and this one is not something you can do from home. Ask Mrs. Roberts about it when you get back.

Reminders: 
Keep reading. If you haven't finished book #1 yet you really need to read.
Check your English Journal. There are probably things you need to finish.

Sharing out memoirs

Goal: Explain the memoir you read yesterday to a new group and make connections to personal experience.

Read:
Books out, let's go.

Memoir Groups: 

• Talk to your group about the memoir you read yesterday.
• Make sure everyone in your group can explain it.
• Is it a memoir? Why or why not?
• What is it really about?

English Journal: 

• Open your English Journal. (It's already in your Google Drive.)
• Make sure it has an entry about the memoir you read yesterday. (At the top.)

New Groups: 

• I'll be moving you to a new group.
• Add a new entry at the TOP of your EJ with the date. (Stay below the top line)
• Make a table in your EJ.  Insert/Table/(5 down and 3 across.) It should look like the one below.
• As you hear about each memoir, make a note about the author's experience.
• Then note the closest similar experience you have had. Try to relate to a time when you had the same feeling even if the situation was different. 

Reminders:
Keep reading. You should be finishing your first book this week!

Reading an discussing a memoir with your group

Goal: Reading a memoir with a small group

Agenda: 
Read
Read a memoir
Discuss the memoir with your group

Group Reading: 

1. Click on the number for your group to get the memoir you will be reading:

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Questions: 

• Paste the questions below in to your English Journal (Google Doc) and answer them as you discuss these questions with your group. Talk about the question before you write your answers. 
• Be prepared to explain more about your reading to another group who has not read this memoir.

1. What does the writer experience in this text?
2. What is the writer trying to say about this experience?
3. What techniques does the writer use to make the story real?
4. What obstacles did the writer encounter  in this memoir?
5. What does the writer gain/learn from these challenges?

Reminders/Homework:
Be prepared to talk about the memoir you read today. You should probably read it again.
Read your independent reading book.

Memoir Elements and Meat

Goals: Noticing the elements of memoir and reading another short one

Read, because we always read.

Open your English Journal: Copy and paste the two questions below into your EJ. Including the chart. Answer the questions and complete the chart with examples (text evidence/quotations) from the text. 

1. Which Elements of Memoir did you notice in "Us and Them"? Provide examples from the text. Use this chart for organization:  

Element of Memoir	Example
Voice is in the first person
Author is the main character
Author shares thoughts, feelings, reflection
Vivid details and descriptions
Authentic dialogue

2. Choose a "golden line" (your favorite line from the story). Describe what you like about it.

Read Another Short Memoir: 

• Return to goformative.com
• Sign in with your district google account
• Read "Steak" and answer the questions as you go. 
• (Apologies to my vegetarian friends.)