January 10, 2018

Objective: I can determine a theme and analyze it in detail over the development of the course of Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird to explain how it is shaped by the text itself (RL2).
Agenda:

• Entry Task:  Get out your Huck or TKAM reading contract and book.  Review your lens questions.
  • 25 min. Sustained Silent Reading of Huck or TKAM
  • Review Children's Book expectations
  • Review Getting to Theme
    • Follow along to Henry "Box" Brown's Freedom Box while drawing the pictures in your mind with a partner or small group of three.
  • Practice Getting to Theme for Freedom Box
    • 1.  What were the Big Ideas that appeared in the story?  Write them in crayon on your pictures
    • 2. Having read the whole book, which of your pictures, point to which Big Ideas?  Draw arrows to show.
      
    • 3.  What is the central conflict of the story?  Which of the Big Ideas does it best connect to?  Circle this one.
      
    • 4.  Ask yourself what Henry learned about that Big Idea and write it on the front with you pictures.
    • 5. Now, flip that idea, so it could be applied to anyone--write this theme statement on the back (use the template if you need help).
      
• Exit Task:  How much reading do you need to still do for the week?  Tomorrow we will be writing and Friday we will be doing independent reading.