Grade 4, unit 4, week 2, mini lesson 7
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Grade 4, unit 4, week 2, mini lesson 7
- 1. Plan and Organize an Opinion Text GRADE 4, UNIT 4, WEEK 3, MINI-LESSON 7 (15-20 minutes)
- 2. Plan and Organize an Opinion Text I will be able to: Develop and strengthen my writing by planning. Gather information from sources by taking notes, paraphrasing, and categorizing information. Describe a character, setting, and event in a story by drawing on specific details in a text. Follow rules for discussions.
- 3. Engage Thinking In our previous writing lesson, we compiled details about the main characters in “My Breaking In” and “Quiet!” The next step in the writing process is to plan your essay. Since the prompt states that the essay should compare and contrast points of view, this provides a frame in which to start planning.
- 4. Model MY ESSAY PROMPT (students use two-column notes to complete “My Breaking In”) “My Breaking In” is narrated by the horse explaining his life to the reader in his own “voice.” In “Waiting for Stormy,” the reader learns about Misty’s life through third person narration. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the points of view in the two stories. Explain the difference in the two points of view and discuss which one, in your view, is more effective in telling the character’s story. Why? State your reason and support your position with details from the text.
- 5. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals feelings of the main character “My Breaking In” First Person Narrator – Details hates the bit and the crupper appreciates how caring his master is detailed information about how he feels about each part of the breaking in
- 6. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals feelings of the main character “Waiting for Stormy” Third Person Narrator – Details contentment
- 7. Model Similar or Different Different “My Breaking In” tells a lot more about how the horse feels
- 8. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals actions of the main character “My Breaking In” First Person Narrator – Details learning how to accept breaking in
- 9. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals actions of the main character “Waiting for Stormy” Third Person Narrator – Details waiting for her foal to be born
- 11. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals physical traits of the main character “My Breaking In” First Person Narrator – Details “handsome”; “fine and soft coat”; “black bright” coat; one one white foot, star on forehead, four years old at breaking in
- 12. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals physical traits of the main character “Waiting for Stormy” Third Person Narrator – Details no
- 13. Model Similar or Different Different – We never learn what Misty looks like.
- 14. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals what the main character observes “My Breaking In” First Person Narrator – Details Black Beauty sees the care showed to him by his master. Black Beauty watches other horses fear steam engines.
- 15. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals what the main character observes “Waiting for Stormy” Third Person Narrator – Details Misty watches two horses on the marsh pretend to be stallions.
- 17. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals action in different settings at the same time “My Breaking In” First Person Narrator – Details no
- 18. Model What the Narrator Does Reveals action in different settings at the same time “Waiting for Stormy” Third Person Narrator – Details yes – Maureen’s daydream, Paul’s “daymare,” Misty in her shed
- 19. Model Similar or Different Different – Black Beauty can reveal only what he observes
- 20. Productive Engagement: Partner YOUR ESSAY PROMPT “My Breaking In” is narrated by the horse explaining his life to the reader in his own “voice.” In “Quiet!,” the reader learns about Lad’s life through third person narration. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the points of view in the two stories. Explain the difference in the two points of view and discuss which one, in your view, is more effective in telling the character’s story. Why? State your reason and support your position with details from the text.
- 21. Productive Engagement: Partner Work with a partner using two-column notes to compare “Quiet!” to “My Breaking In.” Discuss if the points of view are different or similar by examining details from both stories.
- 22. Share Who would like to share what they found and recorded on their two-column notes?
- 23. Build Cursive Writing Skills Display the Unit 4 Week 3 Cursive Writing Practice page and read the model sentence. Demonstrate forming the week’s focus letters. Provide copies of the page so that student may practice cursive writing skills during independent time.