ROOM 514's ELA PAGE
STORY BOARDS FOR "DRUMBEAT OF FREEDOM"
Prepare for High School and College
- Ethos/Credibility: Who are you, and what authority do you have on the topic? Cultural influence.
- Logos/Logic: How clear and consistent is your reasoning? How do your facts measure up against my facts?
- Pathos/Emotion: How vivid, memorable, and motivating is your message?
OUR CURRENT FOCUS
Performing plays goes way back to the civilization of ancient Greece. We are reading this and developing our understanding of characters (empathy) as we enact their roles.
X-MEN
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET
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THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET
COMMON CORE ELA STANDARDS FOR GRADE 6
READING FOR LITERATURE:
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct (separate) from personal opinions or judgements.
3. Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves towards the resolution.
Sequence of events.
First, we meet the boy who is scared and hungry.
Next, we
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Figurative Language:
simile: He is as quick as a cat. He’s quick like a cat.
metaphor: He’s cat quick. He’s a cat on the field.
idiom: The homework was a piece of cake.
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
How?
• commenting on or agreeing with them • providing additional examples • emphasizing through repetition
7. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
8. (Not applicable to literature)
9. Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct (separate) from personal opinions or judgements.
3. Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves towards the resolution.
Sequence of events.
First, we meet the boy who is scared and hungry.
Next, we
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Figurative Language:
simile: He is as quick as a cat. He’s quick like a cat.
metaphor: He’s cat quick. He’s a cat on the field.
idiom: The homework was a piece of cake.
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
How?
• commenting on or agreeing with them • providing additional examples • emphasizing through repetition
7. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
8. (Not applicable to literature)
9. Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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