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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