Before Lesson 6, Experimenting with Sequence and Framing Details to Show Opposing Views, students read pgs. 43-52 with a goal in mind - find words from the context that were difficult or that you needed to look up. We then looked at these words in context and discussed ideas as to how to use the context clues. As for the lesson, we added more to our T-charts as to why Phineas was lucky or unlucky. Our skill drill consisted of us taking two of the "lucky" details, and rewriting them in a sequence that leaves the impression that Gage was UNlucky. Our prompt was to, "Write about a moment in Gage's life after he leaves Boston to show that he was lucky or unlucky. Choose your words and sequence your background information to convey a lucky or unlucky tone." Sharing and responding was especially important today, since this is much of the backbone of writing in response to non-fiction. Students were reminded to look at the Summative Grading Rubric online once again. (It will be used on Feb. 27th.)
If we finished early, students continued with their grammar practice.
Homework:
* Read for 20 minutes.
