Session: Hurricane Katrina: A Timeline
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Session: Hurricane Katrina:
A TimelineConcept(s): Reading Comprehension and Analysis
Skills: Extracting Information from Text
Qs of the Day?• Do I know
what strategies to use when reading and how do I use them?
• What are the key events during the Hurricane Katrina crisis?
What you’ll be doing today…
Reviewing your reading experience thus far
Reviewing your strategies that have been successful
Reading the Timeline of Events of Hurricane Katrina
Creating your version of a timeline based on what you read
Preamble
Take 2 mins to describe what you’re reading experience in HS has been so far…
You can discuss length, topics, types of reading, your reaction, your success, your challenges…
Take 2 mins to talk to partner…Remember how you’re supposed to do
this process
What do you know how to do?Take 2 mins to make a list of all the strategies you have gathered to help you read whatever is put in front of you
Which ones have worked and why?
Take 3 mins to discuss this with partner…we will then bring this out
Do you know what your brain is doing while reading? How do you know when you understand a reading?
How does a timeline work?
You’ll be reading a basic timeline of the events as they unfolded during the hurricane.
You’ll be working with your partner for this process…
Steps:1. Read through the
timeline and begin to piece the events in your head
2. When you feel that you understand what’s happened…
3. Re-create YOUR version of the timeline on butcher paper based on what you read
Now To Read For Practice…
You are now going to take this to the real world…ON YOUR OWN…
You will now read a short story by Vldamir Nabokov- Father’s Butterflies
Your job is to play around with what you already know... Ultimately, it’s just YOU and this READING- How are you going to get through it?
For this task, your focus is the PROCESS
What is your brain doing? Are you aware of what your brain is doing?
Wrapping the session up…
Take 5 mins to reflect on what you have done today. Some guiding questions:
1. While reading, were you using any of the strategies you mentioned before? Did they work today?
2. How were you keeping track of your understanding?
3. Do you feel you have a good sense of what happened? If not, why not?