6th Grade Language Arts: September 30-October 1 - Esperanza Rising and Citing Evidence

Today's Goal:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Today's Agenda:

Entrance Question in the Chat: What is a skill you don’t have yet but wish you did? Why?
Announcements/Screencast Overview
Esperanza Rising Chapter - Las Almendras (7)
Writing Task: Cite the Evidence
Esperanza Rising Chapter - Las Ciruelas (8)

End of Class Checklist (Did I finish these things?):

Daily Exit Form
CLICK HERE for the WHOLE BOOK of Esperanza Rising. Having the whole book will be helpful, I promise.
Writing Task: Cite the Evidence
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    - O, B, and A Keys

Screencast Overview:

Las Almendras (7)

Discussion Questions:

How has Esperanza's life changed?
How has Esperanza changed? Has she changed at all?
What is all this conversation about striking mean? Why might they strike? Why could striking be a bad thing for them?

Today's Writing Task: CITE THE EVIDENCE

Click Here to go to the Assignment.

Today your only goal is Citing the Evidence in the correct format.

I notice that we are still struggling with this, and we are going to become EXPERT CITERS.

C stands for "Cite the Evidence" and it's maybe the most important new skill we're going to practice together this year. It is ONE sentence that means you are going to copy a quote from the text and provide an in-text citation. An in-text citation is what you put at the end of a quote to prove where the quote came from.

Here is what it looks like. It has a VERY specific format!

Every C sentences has THREE PARTS:

Introductory Phrase
examples:
The author writes, "
Asimov states, "
Margie says, "
The writer explains that "
After _____, Esperanza thinks, "
The Quote
The quote has to be EXACTLY as written in the text
The quote has to have quotation marks around it
In-text Citation
You put the author's LAST name (capitalize it) and the page number in parentheses. JUST a number. Do not write the word "page" or "pg" or "#". Then you put the period at the VERY END of the sentence.

(Martin 34)
(Pilkey 97)
(Stiefvater 123)

Examples:

At the end of the chapter, Rowling writes, "All was well" (Rowling 759).

The author finishes the chapter by stating that "All was well" (Rowling 759).

Here is your PROMPT:

In "Las Almendras," Esperanza learns about why members of their community might want to strike and why it might be dangerous. Find a piece of evidence from the story that explains what she learns. You must write it in a complete sentence with an introductory phrase, the quote EXACTLY from the story, and the in-text citation.

You have two options:

You can write a WHOLE RACE PARAGRAPH (this is a great choice if you really want to show off and push yourself). Your "Cite the Evidence" sentence is going to be the best evidence sentence you've ever written in your life.
You can write ONE SENTENCE: Your one sentence is going to be the most perfect "Cite the Evidence" sentence you've ever written in your life.

Optional Sentence Frames:

I'm not giving you sentence frames for this. You have all of the examples above.

Las Ciruelas (8)

Discussion Questions:

Let's talk about mistakes. What happens in this chapter that is really challenging for Esperanza with the children? What doesn't go well? How does she face this challenge?
Dust Storms. What are they? Why are they dangerous?
Irene says "there are not many doctors who will come out here" (Ryan 155). Why do you think that is?