Check Your Progress
1) Record Comprehension and Vocabulary score
2) Did you meet your Goal? If “yes” give
yourself 5 points!
3) Record Vocabulary Vault score
4) Record Adventures in Writing score
5) Add and record Team Cooperation score
6) Read and Response, give yourself 1 point for
every day I signed. (up to 5 points)
7) File all old papers
New Job
• Check the board for this weeks job
• Fill out your new team score sheet
Team Name
Start Date: 2-23-09
Unit Title: The Ch’i-Lin Purse
Strategy Target: Genre Structure
Compare and Contrast
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The midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Team Cooperation Goal
Complete tasks
Title: The Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere
Reading Goal: Setting
Team Cooperation Goal:
Complete tasks
Genre: Poem
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
aloft: up
The kite flew aloft in the bright, blue
sky.
muffled: quiet
When my sister got scared her screams were
muffled because she was covering her mouth.
phantom: not real
The phantom ghost was enough to scare
the trick-or-treaters and cause them to run
away.
perch: post
The sailor stayed on his perch
looking for signs of land.
Bulk : large body
The bulk of the giant cast a large
shadow onto the crowd.
fate :future
The soccer player knew that the fate of
his career depended on his performance
in the game.
Review Vocabulary with Partner
Can you say it?
Can you define it?
Can you say it in a sentence?
Building Background
Setting- Where and when the story takes
place.
How does the setting affect the characters?
Building Background
Listen for how the setting
affects the characters.
Partner Share
• How does the park setting affect Vaughn and
Chanelle?
p. 59-60
What examples of setting do we see in The CowTail Switch and Other West African Stories?
Preview
P. 234
The midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow About the author p. 249
Team Talk
Let’s preview the questions on
page 89 of your treasure hunt.
Partner Read 15 minutes
Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or
unfamiliar to you pages 236
Partner Read p. A:236 Stanza 1&2-B: Stanza 3
Restate page B: Stanza 1&2 and A:Stanza 3
Read Silently: Page 236
Discuss with team words you clarified
 Find vocabulary words
Team Discussion-15minutes
• Discuss answers to team talk questions
• Write answers to question 1 and 2
Team Talk
1. How can you tell this story is a folktale? (write) {GS-DC}
2. Describe Hsiang-Ling.{CH}
3. What did the purse symbolize? {LT}
a) Living a long life
b) Finding true love
c) Having male offspring
d) A mother’s love
4. Make a prediction, with evidence, about what will happen
with the purse. (write) {PR}
Class Discussion
• What words did your group clarify?
Writing Adventures- 15 min
How might this story be different in modern
times? Give two examples in your response.
Scoring Guide
You answer the question
Your answer explains or describes
with at least two details
Your answer makes sense and has
Part of the question in it
Your answer is written in complete,
correct sentences
Your writing has correct capitalization
and punctuation
25 points
25 points
20 points
20 points
10 points
Vocabulary Practice-10 min
• Divide your words with partner. Choose a
word from your list to use in a meaningful
sentence.
Fluency – 5 min
• Page 192 (paragraphs 4 and 5)
• Page 193 (paragraph 1)
Fluency Rubric
100 points
90 points
80 points
70 points
Expressiveness
Smoothness
Rate and correctness
Smoothness
Rate and correctness
Rate and correctness
Correctness