RL2
What is your learning target for RL2?
Determine the theme of the text and how its conceyed
What is the learning target for RL3?
I can compare and contrast two or more characters' reactions to big events by how they interact with each other.
What is the learning target for RL4?
Determine the meaning of words and phrases
What is the learning target for RL6?
Determine the POV (perspective) of the character in the story
What is the theme ?
Moral lesson the character learns in the story
What is the sequence of events in the story called?
The Plot
What should you use in the text to read between the lines to infer what words or phrases mean?
Context Clues
When you are identifying the character's POV- You are looking for their _______ on the topic/story
Perspective
How do we find the theme in a story?
You can look at an event that happens and also what the character overcomes, etc.
What is one thing we can look for to draw on specific details about character's in a story?
We look at how character's interact with each other.
For the duration of time that they were gone, they sat in a hotel room twenty miles away and watched the event unfold on the news .
What does duration mean?
amount of time
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Who is telling the story?
Pip/Christian
Johnny moved to Dallas ready try out for the track team because he was the fastest in his old city. However, when he raced the popular student James, he lost. Johnny went home and practiced for the first time. The next day the coach asked Johnny and James to race again. Johnny won.
What is the theme of this passage?
Practice makes perfect
Name at least three elements of a story?
Setting, Characters, Plot (events), problem, solution
Mr. Miller ran to the door and called to his wife, and they jumped in his car together and drove away from the hazardous conditions, not sure if they would ever be able to come back.
What does hazardous mean?
Dangerous
Miss Little tapped impatiently on the top of the piano, “One, two, three, one, two, three. . .” thinking to herself the whole time how impossible it was to teach these children, who absolutely refused to learn.
What is the narrators perspective?
Miss Little is frustrated because the kids do not want to learn
Winter was coming and the experienced group of hikers were ready for their journey. Kalena checked her bag before the hike to make sure she had all her items including extra clothes and socks. In the middle of their climb, there was an avalanche that trapped the hikers. Kalena was the only one with extra items which she shared.
What is the theme of this passage
Always be prepared
How do we analyze character change in the text?
We analyze what they say/do from beginning to the end of the text
As in school, then a scholarship to college is inevitable, so he is rigorous about his studies.
What does inevitable mean?
Bound to Happen
Curly stood, dead still, and stared at the squirrel. Except for the breeze that lifted first one, and then another, of his chestnut locks, he could have been a statue. I waited to see what he was going to do.
What is the narrator's perspective?
Curly is curious about the squirrel