Tuesday, September 24, 2019

New Story Day! Welcome to Unit 2

Goal: Begin to read our new story, "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin

Agenda: 
Journal
Surveying the Text
Reading the Text
Answering Questions

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1. Journal: 
The journal prompt for today is a picture of Kate Chopin, our new author. Write about the image on the board.

2. Surveying the text 
  • I'm passing out our next reading (welcome to Unit 2!) 
  • This reading is complex and you have already collected some background info on the time period (nice!) 
  • Click HERE to see all of your beautiful whiteboard work from yesterday. What was happening during the 1890s? 
Hint: This story was first published in VOGUE Magazine (in 1894). 
Image result for vogue 1894 cover       
Vogue in 1894
Photographed by Tom Palumbo Vogue September 1960            Image result for vogue september 2019
Vogue 1960                                 Vogue 2019










3. Reading the Story 
  • We are going to listen to the story being read aloud. 
  • I will pause so we can answer the questions together. 

REMINDERS:
  • On Wednesday we have FAST Testing during 3rd period. Bring a pair of headphones if you have ones that connect to a Chromebook. 
  • Tomorrow is DISNEY DAY. Dress up for Spirit Week! :)