Caged Bird and Pre-writing
Essential Questions
- English I Honors: How can I come up with topics for my memoir?
- English Strategies: How do details develop the main idea?
- English Studies: How do details develop the main idea?
First period discussed the excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings after a quiz.
Second period discussed the memoir form, pre-writing techniques, and began writing pre-writing for their memoir.
Fourth and sixth periods began the excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, working in groups to discuss questions about the use of details to support a main idea.
Homework
- First period: questions on page 470.
- Second period:
- three pre-writing sessions (and this includes the one we did in class) that use at least two different pre-writing methods;
- write first draft of memoir.
- Fourth and sixth periods: none.
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