“Escape from Afghanistan” 10/4 (W) 10/5 (M)

Bellwork1. Which sentence has the correctly underlined subject and verb in bold?

a) The town looked very beautiful outside. b) The town looked very beaufiful outside.c) The town looked very beautiful outside.d) The town looked very beautiful outside.

2. Same as above:a) Running a marathon is tough work.b) Running a marathon is tough work.c) Running a marathon is tough work.d) Running a marathon is tough work.

3. Identify all of the parts of speech in this sentence:Hurrah! We have no school on Thursday, but we do have school on Friday.

Vocabulary

• Do the first 10 words for Unit 3 in your vocab book.

• You will be given 2 words. Write a sentence that shows the meaning with each word.

• Get into your assigned group. Read all sentences aloud and pick your group’s favorite to be shared with the class.

II. Literary Element: ToneA. Definition: The author’s use of language to show the author’s feelings or attitude. Tone is shown with word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech

What does the tone of each example tell us about the author’s opinion of the grandpa?

• Example 1: Weak, exhausted, and helpless, Grandpa has to live with us. What good does he do? When he’s not spending hours napping, he spends his time wasting away watching Wheel of Fortune with the volume turned way up so he can hear.

Example 2: I don’t know what I’d do without Grandpa. Every night he shares exciting, insightful stories about his life. His stories show how different life used to be, but they still give great advice for me today.

III. Building Background• Afghanistan consists of people from a

variety of different political, ethnic, and religious groups

• The differences in the people groups have caused political turmoil

• When the Taliban took over in the 1990s, conflicts between different people groups caused massacres of Shi’ite Muslims

• Until 2001, thousands of Afghans left every year, mostly going to Iran and Pakistan

Author’s Background

• Read pg. 351 • Summarize 5 important facts about the

background

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Pakistan

Purposes for Reading

• Identify how the author uses tone• Compare and Contrast “Escape from

Afghanistan” with Hiding in the Mouth of the Wolf– Author’s Background– Setting– Events– Themes

Assignment• Answer the following questions:

1. What is the setting?2. What is the major conflict?3. What is a major theme?4. What is the climax?

• Answer the Literary Element questions (purple) on pgs. 353, 356, 356, 359, 359, 360, 360

I went to school

• Write one paragraph where the author’s tone shows the attitude has a positive attitude about school.

• Write one paragraph where the author’s tone shows a negative attitude about school.