Night Chapter Four

October 4, 2019

Standards

RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. 

RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create effects such as mystery, tension, or surprise

RL.9-10.6 Analyze a particular perspective or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

Obj: I can use objective summaries to identify themes and analyze their development.

I can analyze author's choices in text structure to create mystery, tension, or suspense.

I can analyze a cultural experience through literature. 

Starter

Free Write Friday

Vocabulary: 

Word; Theme 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic

Your Definition: 

Activity: What is a developing theme in Maus or Night?

Activity

1.  Chalk Talk

React to the two quotes that your peers identified on family, freedom, and conflict.

2.  Night Chapter Four

Individually or with a partner, read pages 47-65.

As you read consider what a developing theme is.

What questions does this chapter raise?

3.  TQE

Thoughts. Questions. Epiphanies.

Based on what we just read and create at least two thoughts, questions, and epiphanies with your table. Eventually you will add these ideas to the board for a whole class discussion.

Closure

What is one thing you learned from the TQE?