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October 10, 2011 - The Red GuardsAuthor's perspective and identifying symbols

Homework: Freedom haiku and symbol

Lesson Essential Questions:How is an author's point of view conveyed in text?

How can readers identify symbols and their purpose in text?

Warm Up:Read the paragraph on pg. 274 under "What happens when freedom vanishes?" and in your notes, jot down some of the freedoms you cherish most and what it would mean if they were taken away.

Turn in your Literature book to pg. 275

Today we will be focusing on two skills:

Text analysis: Author's perspectiveReading strategy: Identifying symbols

TEXT ANALYSIS: Author's perspective

Define author's perspective - the combination of ideas, values, feelings and beliefs that shapes the way an author looks at a topic.

2 ways to identify it in nonfiction

direct statements by the authorwords used by the author to describe people, places and things

MODEL THE SKILL: Author's perspective

Let's read the following passage together...

My dad won't let me play in the soccer game because I didn't get my homework done. It's so unfair! I was late for the bus and left my math book at school.

What are some clue words / phrases that point out how the author feels about the situation? it's so unfair!

Create a 2-3 sentence example written from the father's perspective.

READING STRATEGY: Identifying symbols Define symbol - a person, place or thing that stands for something else

2 ways to identify symbols

things that author mentions overand over

objects that seem to have great importance to the author

MODEL THE SKILL: Identifying symbols

Let's read the following passage together...

I gave my teddy bear away yesterday. Now I'm ready for 6th grade.

What does the teddy bear symbolize? childhood, youth

What is an object that might symbolize your elementary / teen years?

GENRE REVIEW: memoir

What is a memoir?

memory - a memorable experience recounted by the author

narrator = the author

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Ji-li Jiang

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The Cultural Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=UD5zpZQk_C8

Follow along in your book as you listen to The Red Guards.

Complete both sides of the handout.

TEXT ANALYSIS: Author's perspectiveTopic Perspective

her family's experience

She feels fearful, scared - she is only 12 years old at the time

125 - we stared in paralyzed fascination...

63- All day we were terrified.

1 - Mom got home from work that evening looking worried.

the Cultural Revolution / Red Guards

She feels angry and like they are being unfair, cruel

109 - zealous, aggressively

175 - The apartment was a mess...

169 - She didn't even look at me...

READING STRATEGY: Identifying symbols

Symbol What it stands for - for the author and for the Red Guardsold photographs

stamp album

author - memory of the past, special events, special times

Red Guards - fourolds, previous wealth, a link to the past

author - dearest treasure, sentimental value, communication with people in other places

Red Guards - xenophile, no coming in of foreign ideas, beliefs, a link to another way of life

How is an author's point of view conveyed in text?

How can readers identify symbols and their purpose?

Homework

Write a 3 line haiku giving your perspective on freedom and what it means to you. At the bottom

of your paper, include a picture of the symbol used in your haiku.

Haiku

5 Winter solitude - 7 In a world of one color5 the sounds of the wind.

When the wind passes The sparrows in the branches

They cling so tightly.

by Basho

Haiku requirements

·3 lines·5,7,5 syllable pattern·Expresses what freedom means to you·Includes a picture of a symbol (something included in your poem that represents freedom for you)