Thursday, November 6, 2008

OBJECTIVE
Students will analyze details that provide information about the setting and mood in order to demonstrate their ability to make inferences about specific character traits, culture, time, historical period and location.

Finish Reading "A Mother In Mannville" pg. 60 & complete the "Visualizing" worksheet
  1. What kind of place is this? does the author show, not tell?
  2. What kind of animals are in the story?
  3. How are people dressed and what might this tell you
  4. How about the historical period?
  5. What are some songs you might hear?
  6. What kind of transportation is there?
  7. Food?
Independent Writing (10 minutes)
Describe where you were, how you felt, what you heard and what you saw when you discovered Barack Obama was the new president of the United States.

What was the mood around you before and after you discovered that Obama won?

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