Homeless Bird Ch. 3

People bathing in the Ganges River

Unit Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Today's Goal: Read Chapter Three. Continue working on looking for moments that relate to the topics we are investigating while we read.

The Plan:

1. Read
2. Important Concepts to Review for Homeless Bird
3. Homeless Bird Chapter 3
4. Context Clues Review

Many of you have not completed the "Context Clues" activity, and many of you missed some important directions, so we're going to go over some of it together because I would like it to be useful to you and something worthy of practice.

Reading Chapter THREE

You are expected to place at least two stickies for every chapter.
Do not put a sticky on the page unless you label it:
*Home/Family
*Perseverance
*Dreams, Hopes, and Plans
*Gender
*something else super important that you don't want to forget?

Driving Questions for Reading

• Home and Family
• How does Koly understand the definition of family?
  What role does Family play in Koly’s life?
• Perseverance
• In what ways are characters expected to overcome hardship? How do they achieve this?
• Dreams, Hopes, and Plans
• How do Koly's hopes, dreams, and plans change over the course of the novel? What does she wish for in the beginning, middle, and end?
• Gender
• How is Koly’s life affected by gender roles and expectations?

Reminders/Homework:

• Achieve Activities due tonight
• Finish Context Clues assignment in Google Classroom
• Revise and edit your personal narratives 
• Fill out "Re-Score Requests" for anything you would like to kindly request that I take time to look at again.
• Are you reading each night? You need to. (You have two weeks before two books are due, March 15)