Today you will
• Compare and contrast many genres of text for
commonplace assertions, factual claims, bias,
and author’s purpose.
• Summarize important events sequentially.
• Write supporting details for the main idea of
texts in the form of captions
Skim back over “Three Skeleton Key”
• Retell the 6 most important events from this
story plot in sequential order
• Choose to explain why 2 of them are so
important to the plot of the story
“Three Skeleton Key”
• What genre does this text represent?
• What language used by the author shows the
genre for this text?
Read the text, “Rat Stats” silently
• Look up at me when you are finished
• What genre does this text represent?
• What language used by the author shows the
genre for this text?
• What are the three most important factual
claims made by the author of this text?
• What can you conclude about the author’s
purpose for writing this text?
2nd reading
• Why does the author claim rats are “super
rodents with amazing powers”
• What vocabulary shows the author’s bias
towards rats?
biased language
author’s feeling it revealed
Write a detail that supports the main idea from the
article as a caption for ONE of the images below:
A.
B.
Write a detail that supports the main idea from the
article as a caption for ONE of the images below:
A.
B.
How did the maritime rats from “Three Skeleton
Key” get paid by the pied piper?
How is this text similar to and different from
“Like Black Smoke” and “Three Skeleton Key”
“Rat Stats”
“Three
Skeleton
Key”
“Like
Black
Smoke”