ELD 3
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Journal Topic
Write about one of easiest decisions you have made
in your life.
Write a least one paragraph.
You will have 10 minutes.
We will share afterwards
Focus Lesson
Reading Comprehension- Test Taking Strategies
Lesson 1
1. Test Taking Strategy #1 Read the questions
carefully circling the key words. Make sure you
know what the question is asking!!!!
Test Taking Strategy #2 Begin with the title, read
the passage throughly at least two times. Make a
mental picture of what is being read.
Focus Lessons Cont.
Test Taking Strategy #3 Read the first question and
return to the passage and identify the answer or
clues that support the possible answer.
Test Taking Strategy #4 Return to the question and
eliminate the wrong answer.
Test Taking Strategy #5 Buble the correct answer.
Test Taking Strategy #6 Repeat steps three through
five for the remainder of the questions.
Now lets try them
Objective
Students will review their academic vocabulary.
Students will learn what a folk tale is and will be
able to recognize the characteristics.
Standards: 3.1 Analyze characteristics of subgenres
(e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used
in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays,
and other basic genres.
Vocabulary
Confident
Shock
Convince
Tragedy
Doubt
Worthless
Foolish
Nerves
Folk Tale
A folk tale is a simple story that has been shared
and told to many people over the years. Folk tales
usually reflect the culture they came from.
Nasruddin Hodja is a popular character in Middle
Eastern tales. Sometimes he is a fool, but sometimes
he is wise. He is known by different names
throughout the Middle East.
Characteristics of a Folk Tale
1. Folk Tales begin with “Once upon a time”, “Long, long
ago”, etc.
2. Three characters, 3 tasks, and 3 events appear in Folk Tales.
3. Folk Tales have good and bad characters.
4. Everyday people and/or animals are the characters in Folk
Tales.
5. The good characters in Folk Tales have a problem to solve.
6. Phrases are repeated in Folk Tales. For example: “Mirror,
mirror, on the wall…”.
7.Folk Tales have happy endings
One in a Million a Middle
Eastern Folk Tale
1. What kind of character is easy to convince
or trick? (think back to The Open Window)
2 . What kind of character do you think Hodja
might be?
3. Do the people here use cars? Do they buy
and sell things as we do?
What kind of character was Hodja? How could you
tell?
Analyze
One in a Million
1. Explain Why does Hodja spend so much money
to buy the donkey?
2. Vocabulary How does the donkey’s new owner
convince people that the animal is valuable?
3. Analyze Literature: Folk Tale- Provide two details
you learned about Middle Eastern culture from this
folk tale.
Homework for the week.
Grammar- Fragments
Fragments- an incomplete sentence
Summary
In your own words tell me what is a folk tale and
what are the characteristics of it?
Remember each sentence starts with a capital and
ends with a punctuation mark. (., ?, !) I do not want
to see any fragments.
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