Reading 3IECP

Fall 2013Nikki Mattson

Agenda

• VP 1 quiz• RE 1 vocabulary, reading and

summarizing

VP 1 Quiz

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Pg. 11 - …and a few friends in a boat commenced their journey from Edo on May 16, 1689.

Pg. 11 – He has an open, friendly manner and a contagious intensity of spirit.

Pg. 11 – Early in the evening I hire a boat, which slowly navigates the Sumidagawa River almost to Tokyo Bay…

Pg. 12 – Many people arrive at Matsushima on ferries.

The ferries sail past Niwo Island, whose shape resembles a submarine…

Pg. 12 - …some are piled double on each other, or even triple, and some are divided at one end and overlapping at the

other.

Pg. 12 – Some bear others on their backs; some seem to embrace them, as if caressing their offspring…

Pg. 12 – Basically, about 800 years ago a woman tried to flee from a powerful official with her small child

along the cliffs.

Pg. 13 – Cormorants are birds that can be trained to dive and catch fish, which the fisherman retrieve by reaching into the

cormorant’s throats.

Pre-reading• What will you read about?

– A writer and photographer from National Geographic who followed the path that Matsuo Basho traveled in 1689.

• Who was Matsuo Basho?– A Japanese poet who walked for five months trough the villages and mountains of

Japan. During and after his journey, Basho produced his great work entitled Narrow Road to a Far Province.

– Today, thousands of people visit the village where Basho was born, the shrine where he is buried, and the path that he travelled through Japan.

• Questions to think about while you are reading…• 1) Where do Norman and Yamashita (the writer and photographer) travel to?

• 2) What are some similarities and between what the National Geographic travelers experience and what Basho would have experienced over 300 years before their journey?

• Read 1 paragraph silently. Stop.• Orally summarize the paragraph with your

partner.• Repeat these steps until you have finished

the text

Reading and Oral Summarizing

HW

• Complete Vocabulary Power chapter 2 (pgs. 12-19)

• Complete Reading Explorer pgs. 14-15 in your book