Reading - Q1 Week 4 Day 2
Today we introduced the 4th signpost for Fiction: "Words of the Wiser". When a character (who is probably older and alot wiser) takes the main character aside and gives serious advice, stop and ask yourself:
We watched a scene from Harry Potter and students discussed how Dumbledore's words might have impacted Harry in the films/books.
Then, we looked at some excerpts from Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan. The novel is about a young girl named Charlotte who lives in the mid-1800s. She lives in an orphanage and loves horses. The overseer of the orphanage forbids her to work with them though, because she is a girl. Life there is hard and, at some point, she decides to run away.
Context for the first scene: Charlotte is telling a trusted adult friend that she must escape. The friend is Vern, who takes care of the horses. One of the horses is named Justice.
After reading the first scene, jot your thoughts about the anchor question.
Context for scene 2: Charlotte leaves the orphanage and her good friends, Vern and Hayward. She finds a nice older man who lets her live in his barn and begins to teach her to drive a six-horse stagecoach. Learning to drive a coach is hard work.
After reading the second scene, jot your thoughts about the anchor question.
Context for the last scene: Charlotte is now a good stagecoach driver, but today someone from her past wants to ride her coach and she is upset. Ebeneezer, the man who taught her to drive the coach, sees that she's upset and says something to her.
After reading, jot your thoughts about the anchor question.
After the signposts lesson, we discussed another Poem of the Week: "Oranges" by Gary Soto.
What is the life lesson, and how might it affect the character?
We watched a scene from Harry Potter and students discussed how Dumbledore's words might have impacted Harry in the films/books.
Then, we looked at some excerpts from Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan. The novel is about a young girl named Charlotte who lives in the mid-1800s. She lives in an orphanage and loves horses. The overseer of the orphanage forbids her to work with them though, because she is a girl. Life there is hard and, at some point, she decides to run away.
Context for the first scene: Charlotte is telling a trusted adult friend that she must escape. The friend is Vern, who takes care of the horses. One of the horses is named Justice.
After reading the first scene, jot your thoughts about the anchor question.
Context for scene 2: Charlotte leaves the orphanage and her good friends, Vern and Hayward. She finds a nice older man who lets her live in his barn and begins to teach her to drive a six-horse stagecoach. Learning to drive a coach is hard work.
After reading the second scene, jot your thoughts about the anchor question.
Context for the last scene: Charlotte is now a good stagecoach driver, but today someone from her past wants to ride her coach and she is upset. Ebeneezer, the man who taught her to drive the coach, sees that she's upset and says something to her.
After reading, jot your thoughts about the anchor question.
After the signposts lesson, we discussed another Poem of the Week: "Oranges" by Gary Soto.