Can you sum up a story in just a few words?
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Can you sum up a story in just a few words?
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In this lesson you will interpret the text by highlighting the
most important phrase in the text.
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Let’s ReviewWe’ve finished reading “Whitewashing the Fence.”
Tom managed to get out of whitewashing the fence and to get his friends to do it for him.
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A Common Mistake
Most Exciting Most
Important
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Core LessonCore Lesson List the Important Events:
Key Events: “Whitewashing the Fence”
-Tom tries to talk Jim into painting.-Tom and Jim get caught.-Tom tricks Ben Rogers into doing it.-Tom realizes that work is only work if you have to do it.
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Core LessonCore Lesson
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely in order to make a man of a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Works consists of whatever a boy is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Zoom in to the text:
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Core LessonCore Lesson
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
Record & Reflect:
This quote explains why Tom was successful at getting other people to do his work.
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Core LessonCore Lesson
List the important events from the text.1
2 Zoom in to the text section.
3 Select, record, and reflect.
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In this lesson you have learned to interpret a text by highlighting the most
important phrase in the text.
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Guided Practice List the important Events in “Martin Eden”
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Guided Practice Zoom in to the text:
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Guided Practice Record and Reflect
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Extension Activities
Group Extension:
Working as a class or in small groups read a selected text. Then apply the three-steps to identify and record the most important quote or phrase from the text.
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Extension Activities
Individual Extension:
Using the three steps, identify and record the most important quote or phrase from your independent reading book. .
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Quick QuizQuick Quiz List the Events from the text in “Playing Hooky”
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Quick QuizQuick Quiz Zoom into the text, reflect, & record…
This quote explains why…