Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, Langston Hughes, Thank You Maam

Objective: Students will show comprehension of short story and characters make connections with the author. Students will practice identifying adjectives.

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Adjective handout. Cirlce the adjectives. Remember they are descriptive words that often answer the question "what kind?" or "how many?". They describe nouns - people, places or things.

1. Listen and view a retelling of the story. As you listen, write down anything new that you realize that maybe you didn't realize yesterday.

2. Make a Venn Diagram comparing how the story was told today as compared to yesterday.

3.List all of the character traits you know so far about Roger and Mrs. Jones. Can you identify how you know some of these thing about each character? For example, we know Roger is polite because he calls her 'Maam".

4. In your soft holt readers, complete questions at end of Thank you Maam.

5. Think ahead in time. Roger would be 24-25 years old. What do you think has become of Roger? What kind of influence do you think Mrs. Jones has had on his life?

Imagine Roger writes a letter to Mrs. Jones 10 years from now. Why is he writing and what does he say? pretend you are Roger writing the letter. So your paper starts with

Dear Mrs. Jones.......... and it ends with........ Sincerely, Roger




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