Announcements and Reminders:
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Targets for Today:
I can compare and contrast a fictional account of an event or time period with a nonfiction account of the same event or era.
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Prepare to go to computer lab 224.
Fill out the top part of your rubric for the book assessment Bring a book to read should you finish early, bring your rubric and notes.
2. Type up your book assessment. Share it with me, and print it to staple to the FRONT of your rubric.
Make sure you have all of the parts on your printed response.
Edit and revise as needed. Share your Google Doc with the teacher, and print your assessment,
staple it to the top of the rubric, and hand it in.
Be as specific as you can.
Examples:
[Student explains in one or two sentences what
makes the book fictional. (Usually at
least some of the characters are fictional.)]
Al Capone Does My Shirts is fictional because of the main characters. There is no way to tell the things that the person said, so to get an interesting historical fiction book you would most likely use some fictional characters, such as Moose and his sister Natalie and their parents who all move to live on Alcatraz Island.
[Student compares and/or
contrasts the experience of reading fictional and nonfictional accounts of this
same topic.]
Reading fictional and Nonfictional readings on the topic of Alcatraz: Nonfiction readings about Alcatraz were mostly just history and facts, whereas my fictional readings on the topic of Alcatraz showed life through the aspect of those living in the time of when Alcatraz was functional. In the fictional book with Moose and his family and the warden's daughter Piper and the other kids we saw what life would have been like for families on Alcatraz.
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Comparing and Contrasting the
experience of reading fictional and nonfictional accounts of this same topic.
I
enjoy reading nonfiction, but a good fictional story pulls me in and pulls me
along. For instance, as I read the first
section of Code Name Verity, I felt
as if I was with the narrator. It was a
hard place to be since she was being tortured to give up information about the
British war efforts. On the other hand,
when I read part of an online biography of a real British female spy who was
captured by the Nazis, I cringed as I read about the forms of torture they used
on her, but the objective encyclopedia-like listing did not touch me in the way
the fictional version did. I was with
that fictional character for weeks, gradually getting to know her, her story,
her ongoing sufferings and frustrations, agonies and anger. The second section continues the story from
the perspective of another narrator, a female pilot, and the two stories
intertwine. The details and the scenes the fictional author created will stick
in my memory much longer than the concise text of the nonfiction article.
3. Read your choice of books.
If You Were Absent:
Prepare your February Book Project on your own time, and hand it in as soon as possible.
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Vocabulary:
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