Language Objective: I will cite textual evidence from "The Miller's Tale" to make inferences and analyze characters and themes.
Agenda:
1.) Open a new GoogleDoc and title it with your full name, period and today's date.
Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions:
- Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence.
- List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences.
- Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched.
- Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched.
- List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
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2.) Finish reading "The Miller's Tale"
3.) Using your five most important lines from last period, produce a group summary within your table group. Add this summary to your GoogleDoc for today.
4.) Open the "Miller's Tale Inference Questions" document. In your top left corner, click on "File" and "Make a copy".
Title this new file "Miller's Tale Questions{YOUR NAME]" Then fill out the question that you and your group have been assigned. Share the document with me once you are done.
5.) We will have each group share their answers to their assigned questions. Add their answer into your document as they are talking. You will not need to share this document with me again, it automatically saves the changes you made.
6.) On the bottom of this document, find one major themes that "The Miller's Tale" deals with and give some textual evidence of where this theme is present in the text. We will brainstorm how this theme develops as a class.
7.) After we have finished brainstorming and talking about themes in "The Miller's Tale", pick the theme you think is the most important in this story and write 3-5 sentences justifying your answer.
Assignments:
- Share your GoogleDoc with your bell work
- Fill out and share your "Miller's Tale Questions" doc and add major themes in "The Miller's Tale" to the bottom of this deocument.