CW/HW on 8/27 and 8/29

OBJECTIVE
• Students will record notes and begin to practice Disciplinary Learning Structures in order to prepare for habits of thinking and learning that will comprise the nucleus of the English 9 curriculum.


CLASS WORK
Copy these notes in the Reference Section of your notebook.

• Disciplinary literacy (DL) is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates academically rigorous content with discipline-appropriate habits of thinking.
• In DL, students become literate in a specific discipline by learning the big ideas and habits of thinking of that discipline simultaneously.

Level 1 OF DL Video Game (Continue with these notes)
Getting the Gist/Part 1—WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?
• Read the assigned chunk of text and think about what is happening in the section. Think action! Think PLOT!
• List your plot summary in bullet/number form in your RWNB
• Share observations w/trio or partner
• Whole class charts plot observations


Practice DL Structure: Do not copy. We completed these activities in class
Practice “Getting the Gist” Part I

Turn to the“House on Mango Street/page 703
Read the first column of this excerpt aloud with your teacher.
• Ask yourself the question, “What is happening here?”
• Think, re-read, and then list what HAPPENS in this reading chunk.
• Share/discuss observations w/partner.
• Share observations aloud w/whole group.
• Teacher or student charts responses.

(Continue copying these notes on the page you started in the REFERENCE section of your notebook
DL VIDEO—LEVEL II
GETTING THE GIST Part 2
What do we know about the characters?
1. What does the text TELL us? (expressed)
2. What can we INFER about the character? (Implied)
To develop an inference, think about….
What the character says
What the character does
What the character does not say
What the character does not do
What other people say about the character

RETURN TO PAGE 703 AND READ THE SECOND COLUMN
Make a two column chart beneath the notes you just recorded
Head the columns as follows:
What do I know about the people and setting presented here?
How do I know it? (Use information from the text to support your inferences in this column. If the book states the information, simply write “expressed.”

Procedure:
Students complete chart
Share with partner
Teacher charts whole group responses.



HOMEWORK
ASSIGNED ON 8/27 TO B-day students and 8/30 to A-day students

A-day/Due on 8/31
B-day/Due on 9/1


• Read the excerpt, “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark” on page 706
• Complete the Getting the Gist Exercises we practiced today:
• Part 1: What is happening here? (Plot)
• Part 2: Who are the characters and what do we know about them? How do we know it?