This document provides an agenda and lesson plans for a workshop on natural disasters. It includes the following: - An agenda for Monday including turning in homework passes, watching announcements and a news program, reviewing expectations, and participating in seminar activities. - Agendas for subsequent days of the week focused on points of view, editorials, vocabulary, and reading assignments. - Details on lessons covering analyzing points of view, interpreting figures of speech, reading response journals, analyzing editorial cartoons, and creating their own cartoons. - The learning targets and schedules for the rest of the workshop week.

1. WORKSHOP 3 WEEK 6
Nature’s Fury

2. LESSON 1

3. Monday
• Please turn in your paws passes.
Today we will:
Listen to Announcements
Watch CNN Student News
Review Expectations

4. Seminar (D Block)
• Break down writing prompt with FAME
• Create Thesis Statement and Outline
• ERQ Practice
• Finish Outline from last time.

5. Smartboard
Faith
May
Caitlyn
Annie
Inbox/Outbox
Teacher Desk
Samant
haL
Ethan
Tru
Breanna
W
Adam
Marissa
Samant
haM
Makenz
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Ashley
R
Bill
Shieann
Bianca
Dixie
Nathan
Matt
Alexis
Makayla
Levi
Juliana

6. Today is February 23, 2015
Bell Work: Copy and correct the sentence below.
this may be the 1st day of school she said
but you have homework tonight my name
in case your interested is mrs keck
Learning Targets
• I can analyze how an author develops and
contrasts the points of view of different characters
or narrators in a text.
• Homework: Reading Response Journals Due
Wednesday (A&B) and Thursday (C & D),

7. 26. Keck (to make gagging sounds)
“This may be the first day of school,” she said, “but you have
homework tonight. My name, in case you’re interested, is Mrs.
Keck.
this may be the 1st day of school she said but you have
homework tonight my name in case your interested is mrs
keck

8. Today’s Agenda
• Point of View Mini-Lesson
• Point of View Stations: Read a paragraph and determine
the author’s point of view.
• Finish Reading “The Big Wave” read pg. 216-217 with
group and then answer Read and Synthesize Questions
• Vocabulary Review

9. Point of View
 The perspective from which a piece of text is
written.
1. First Person: Told from the view point of one of the
characters (I, We, Me)
2. Second Person: The narrator addresses YOU, the
reader (You, Your) Usually how to or a manual.
3. Third Person: the narrator is not part of the story.
(He, She, They, Character’s Names)

10. Third Person POV
 Limited: Narrator focuses on the thoughts and
feelings of only one character.
 Omniscient: All-knowing! The narrator can tell the
thoughts and feelings of all characters.
 Objective: Narrator only reports facts and events as a
neutral observer.

11. LESSON 2

12. Tuesday
• Please turn in your paws passes.
Today we will:
Listen to Announcements
Watch CNN Student News
7 Habits

13. Wednesday
• Please turn in your paws passes.
Today we will:
Listen to Announcements
Watch CNN Student News
7 Habits

14. Today is February 24, 2015
Bell Work: Copy the sentence below, choose the
correct word, then circle context clues that helped
you decide on the correct answer.
Two hurricanes ______ brewing off the Atlantic
Coast, so the residents returned to their shelter.
a. be b. been c. is d. were
Learning Targets
• I can cite several pieces of textual evidence to support my
analysis of what the text says as well as inferences drawn from
the text.
• I can interpret figures of speech in context.
• Homework: Reading Response Journals Due
Wednesday (A&B) and Thursday (C & D),

15. Today’s Agenda
• Reading Response Journal
• Reading Editorial Cartoons about Natural
Disasters (p.218-219) analyzing the author’s
structure and making inferences about the
meaning of the cartoon.
• Natural Disaster Editorial Cartoon
• Study Guide for Test

16. Editorial Cartoons
►Gives opinions about
current issue (usually
political) through a
drawing
►Usually one frame that
quickly gets author’s
feelings about an issue
across

17. Use Symbolism
►Using an image to stand for
something else
►Example-Uncle Sam
symbolizes America

18. Symbolism Cartoon Example
Dollar sign replaces scar on Harry
Potter’s head. This is a SYMBOL of
greed in continually making more books
and movies.

19. Use Exaggeration/Create
Caricature
►Make something larger or
bigger than it really is to
point out negative qualities
►Example-George Bush often
caricaturized to look like a
monkey with large ears

20. Exaggeration Example
The security worker’s job is exaggerated
by having him take the man’s freedom
(symbolized by the word written out)

21. Caricature Example
George Bush’s features are exaggerated-big ears
Osama’s beard is exaggerated-very long

22. Make an Analogy/Comparison
Tabloid Photographers are compared to the
flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz, doing
the work of the “evil witches”-the tabloids

23. Label
►Be sure to label objects so it is clear
what you are criticizing (“Fat Kids”
Labeled)

24. Practice: Complete on Cloze
Notes Handout
►Turn to your group and discuss the
following cartoons by talking about:
 What is the topic?
 What political cartoons strategies do you see
at work (the ones presented in this
presentation)?
 What comment is the creator making about
society?
 Who is the intended target? How do you
know?

29. Now, Create Your Own!
►Choose a current issue/topic
►Think of opposing view-main
figure/leader of what you refuted
►What symbol could be used?
►How could you caricaturize a
stereotypical one?
►What well-known thing could you
compare the injustice to?
►What needs to be labeled to be certain
point is clear?

30. Editorial Cartoon Rubric
Requirements Points
Possible
Points Earned
Message: Clearly expresses
feelings about an injustice
and responsible parties are
clearly targeted
10
Editorial Cartoon Devices:
Cartoon effectively uses at
least 3 of the 5 possible
devices used in creating
editorial cartoons (symbol,
exaggeration, caricature,
analogy, and label)
15
Effort: It is clear much time
and effort was put into
creation of cartoon. Neat
and detailed.
10
TOTAL
35

31. LESSON 3

32. Thursday
Please have a seat and make sure you have your 7 Habits
Book
Today we will:
Announcements
CNN Student News
Silent Ball

33. LESSON 4

34. Friday: Welcome Advisory
Get out your paws passes. Today is cash-in day. You may
go at 8:15.
Today we will:
Announcements
CNN Student News
Silent Ball

35. Today is February 20, 2015
Bell Work: Copy and correct the
sentence(s) below.
When the tornado hit Grandma
Grandpa and I all ran for the basement we
had water food and a crank operated radio
down there
Learning Targets
• I can analyze how an author develops and
contrasts the points of view of different characters
or narrators in a text.
• Homework: Reading Response Journals Due
Wednesday (A&B) and Thursday (C & D),

36. Today’s Agenda (D)
• Vocabulary Review Activity
• Reading Robin Hood Play
• Legends of Robin Hood Quiz
• Finish Study Guide & CompleteThink Across Texts

37. MONDAY

38. Today is February 26, 2015
Bell Work: Copy and correct the
sentence below.
oh no not mrs keck groaned gnarly
in an aside to harold. i hear she gives tons
of homework calls parents and makes
students write and write
Learning Targets
• I can analyze how an author develops and
contrasts the points of view of different characters
or narrators in a text.
• Homework: Reading Response Journals Due
Wednesday (A&B) and Thursday (C & D),

39. 27. aside
“Oh no, not Mrs. Keck!” groaned Gnarly in an aside
to Harold. “I hear she gives tons of homework, calls
parents, and makes students write and write.”
oh no not mrs keck groaned gnarly in an aside to harold. i
hear she gives tons of homework calls parents and makes
students write and write

40. Today’s Agenda
• Workshop 3 Test
40 Multiple Choice
Two Short Answer
One ERQ
• Read independent novels when you finish the test.