1. Do Now 9/15/14 Please take out the HW (binder p. 9) and be ready for the next direction

2. Learning Targets 1.Determine the central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas. 2.By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

3. Agenda 1.Do Now 2.Group review section work 3.Gist per section (2, 3, & 4) 4.Vocabulary Notes 5.Quick write 3 – Read aloud – Writing piece in notebooks 6.Test results and reflection paragraph

4. Academic Vocabulary objective - just the facts; no bias, no opinion perspective - point of view; how someone sees something subjective – when events are described through a perspective, or point of view. Ha is telling us her experience, not “just the facts” tone - the specific attitude of a text that the author wants to say about the subject

5. Academic Vocabulary central idea – important idea; big picture idea; more often in informational text. plot – events that make up a story; typically used when describing a piece of fiction