1. Today’s Quick-Write: What animal would best represent your personality? List 3 reasons. (What type of animal/bird best describes you?)

2. North Senior Academy Diverse Urban Scholars Urban Literacy

3. Targets: I can determine the Gist of a text I can find the Significant Moments of a text

4. 1.Analyze commercial text 2.Share Out a few Quick-Writes 3.New Author 4.Analyze video for Gist/Significant Moments 5.Period 4 - Pretest Today's Agenda:

5. Metaphor How is metaphor used to create a persuasive or powerful text? Analyze Commercial Text

6. On a trip to Chicago in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked: “So often in these past two years I have had to watch my dream transformed into a nightmare... I have felt my dream falter as I have traveled through the rat- infested slums of our big city ghettos and watched our jobless and hopeless poor sweltering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.”

7. Richard Wright Native Son

8. New Author...

9. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Dutchman

10. Amiri Baraka Born Leroi Jones (1934) African American author & political activist founder of the "Black Arts Movement“ – 1960s Dutchman 1964

11. find the gist of the text find the significant moments interpret the author’s ideas analyze the author’s methods T-Chart Text Analysis: Reading, Viewing, Listening in order to...

12. Text Title (plus scene number or section) Gist Statement: SigMo (quote/event) Reason Meaning (surface & “between the lines”): Methods:

14. Formal Letter Writing Pre-Test Compose a formal letter to Principal Branch respectfully expressing your main hopes, dreams or desires for North Senior Academy.