Lesson 14
Today’s Agenda
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1. Sentence Type Review
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2. finish Activity 4.8
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Discuss Author’s Note
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Discuss Genre Conventions
3. ITW: Read chapters 1-3
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Characterization
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Understand the purpose and conventions of a genre
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Analyze how a writer uses characterization to develop a real person
Sentence Types
Write each sentence in your notes. Mark the subjects, verbs, conjunctions,
AAAWWUUBBIST words, dependent clauses, and independent clauses.
Let’s Practice
 After
the rain, we decided to go
fishing and took our canoe to the lake.
Let’s Practice
 We
were able to catch enough fish for
dinner, and then we went to bed in our
makeshift tents.
Let’s Practice
 Those
clouds promise rain, so we
hurried up and left before we got
caught in a flash flood.
Let’s Practice
 We
decided to return before dark since
we had only gone a mile from camp.
Discuss Author’s Note
Author’s Note
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Paragraphs 1-2: Mark key information
about Christopher McCandless.
Paragraph 3: Circle verbs.
Paragraph 4: Underline Krakauer’s
statement of purpose and subject of text.
Paragraphs 5-7: Mark words that reveal
Krakauer’s attitude toward McCandless.
Paragraph 8: Identify contrasting ideas.
Exit Slip – Discussion Points
 1.
Paragraphs 1-3: What kind of person do
you think Christopher McCandless was? Use
specific details to support your answer.
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Paragraph 4: Why did Krakauer write Into
the Wild?
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Paragraphs 5-8: How does the general
public feel about Krakauer?
Into the Wild chapters 1-3
Read and annotate chapters; complete study guide questions.
Into the Wild: Chapter 1
 Into
the Wild begins in medias res (in
the middle of things).
 Why
might Krakauer begin the book in
the middle of things rather than at the
beginning chronologically?
HW: Read and annotate chapters 1-3
(pp. 3-23)
Write the page number where the answer can be found next to the study
guide questions. Write the question number next to the answer in the
book. Mark character development, symbolism, foreshadowing, ideas
that seem important, dates.
DUE LESSON 15 (EXPECT A QUIZ)