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Lesson 14
Today’s Agenda
1. Sentence Type Review
2. finish Activity 4.8
Discuss Author’s Note
Discuss Genre Conventions
3. ITW: Read chapters 1-3
Characterization
Understand the purpose and conventions of a genre
Analyze how a writer uses characterization to develop a real person
Sentence TypesWrite each sentence in your notes. Mark the subjects, verbs, conjunctions, AAAWWUUBBIST words, dependent clauses, and independent clauses.
Let’s Practice
After the rain, we decided to go
fishing and took our canoe to the
lake.
Let’s Practice
We were able to catch enough fish
for dinner, and then we went to
bed in our makeshift tents.
Let’s Practice
Those clouds promise rain, so we
hurried up and left before we got
caught in a flash flood.
Let’s Practice
We decided to return before dark
since we had only gone a mile
from camp.
Discuss Author’s Note
Author’s Note
Paragraphs 1-2: Mark key information about Christopher McCandless.
Paragraph 3: Circle verbs. Paragraph 4: Underline Krakauer’s
statement of purpose and subject of text. Paragraphs 5-7: Mark words that reveal
Krakauer’s attitude toward McCandless. Paragraph 8: Identify contrasting
ideas.
Exit Slip – Discussion Points
1. Paragraphs 1-3: What kind of person do you think Christopher McCandless was? Use specific details to support your answer.
2. Paragraph 4: Why did Krakauer write Into the Wild?
3. Paragraphs 5-8: How does the general public feel about Krakauer?
Into the Wild chapters 1-3Read and annotate chapters; complete study guide questions.
Into the Wild: Chapter 1
Into the Wild begins in medias res (in the middle of things).
Why might Krakauer begin the book in the middle of things rather than at the beginning chronologically?
HW: Read and annotate chapters 1-3 (pp. 3-23)
Write the page number where the answer can be found next to the study guide questions. Write the question number next to the answer in the book. Mark character development, symbolism, foreshadowing, ideas that seem important, dates.
DUE LESSON 15 (EXPECT A QUIZ)