"The Bird Who Broke Through the Window" and Personal Moments - 17 December and 18 December 2019

Today's Goal:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

The Plan:

1. Read
2. Read and annotate "The Bird Who Broke Through the Window" together
3. ELA Journal Questions (Here's Ms. Black's to Copy/Paste)
4. This I Believe Personal Brainstorm (On Google Classroom)

Reminders/Homework:

• READ!
• Make sure all ELA Journal Entries are completed thoughtfully.
• This I Believe Personal Brainstorm should be completed by the time you come back from Winter Break in January. Talk to your people, get ideas from family, and fill it in as thoughtfully as you can.
• Finish your Book Review if it is not already completed
• Typing.com Intermediate #9-12
• Due Friday, 19 December 4pm
• No Red Ink "Capitalization and Conjunctions"
• Due Friday, 10 January, 4pm

"The Bird Who Broke Through the Window"

We will read and annotate this together. I will give it to you on paper!

Purpose for Reading: What does Dylan believe and how did he come to believe it?

We will annotate in this way:

• Write our purpose for reading at the top
• number each paragraph
• Circle and define words we need definitions for
• highlight/underline key ideas in each passage and make note of why it's important

When we are done, there are three questions to copy and paste into your ELA journal!

You can copy and paste from Ms. Black's to include the date, but here are the questions:

1. Today we did some annotation. What does annotation mean? What kinds of things did we annotate together and why?
2. What does Dylan believe and what events in his life helped him to form this belief?
3. What is the significance of the title? Explain what it means and why it matters.

This I Believe Personal Brainstorm

This document on Google Classroom asks you to think about important moments in your life, just like Dylan thought about and shared an important moment in his life and what it taught him.

You have today and all of winter break to work on this document. The reason you have such a long time is because I know the questions are not easy, and I want you to have time to talk to your family and friends and really take time to reflect upon the answers. Sometimes a loved one can help remind us of things that we learned or challenges we faced that we might have forgotten about. 

It has a few parts. Please take some time to read through it today and begin working on the parts you can.