Lesson 14

Today’s Agenda

1. Sentence Type Review

2. finish Activity 4.8

Discuss Author’s Note

Discuss Genre Conventions

3. ITW: Read chapters 1-3

Characterization

Understand the purpose and conventions of a genre

Analyze how a writer uses characterization to develop a real person

Sentence TypesWrite each sentence in your notes. Mark the subjects, verbs, conjunctions, AAAWWUUBBIST words, dependent clauses, and independent clauses.

Let’s Practice

After the rain, we decided to go

fishing and took our canoe to the

lake.

Let’s Practice

We were able to catch enough fish

for dinner, and then we went to

bed in our makeshift tents.

Let’s Practice

Those clouds promise rain, so we

hurried up and left before we got

caught in a flash flood.

Let’s Practice

We decided to return before dark

since we had only gone a mile

from camp.

Discuss Author’s Note

Author’s Note

Paragraphs 1-2: Mark key information about Christopher McCandless.

Paragraph 3: Circle verbs. Paragraph 4: Underline Krakauer’s

statement of purpose and subject of text. Paragraphs 5-7: Mark words that reveal

Krakauer’s attitude toward McCandless. Paragraph 8: Identify contrasting

ideas.

Exit Slip – Discussion Points

1. Paragraphs 1-3: What kind of person do you think Christopher McCandless was? Use specific details to support your answer.

2. Paragraph 4: Why did Krakauer write Into the Wild?

3. Paragraphs 5-8: How does the general public feel about Krakauer?

Into the Wild chapters 1-3Read and annotate chapters; complete study guide questions.

Into the Wild: Chapter 1

Into the Wild begins in medias res (in the middle of things).

Why might Krakauer begin the book in the middle of things rather than at the beginning chronologically?

HW: Read and annotate chapters 1-3 (pp. 3-23)

Write the page number where the answer can be found next to the study guide questions. Write the question number next to the answer in the book. Mark character development, symbolism, foreshadowing, ideas that seem important, dates.

DUE LESSON 15 (EXPECT A QUIZ)