Friday’s Lesson

Aim: How can annotating help us figure out the mood of a text?

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to (SWBAT):

• Annotate students story to figure out their mood
• List claims on what mood the student was in during each event

DIRECT INSTRUCTION

• What is meant by the term annotation?

An annotation is metadata (e.g. a comment, explanation, presentational  markup) attached to text, image, or other data. Often annotations refer to a specific part of the original data.

•  How can annotating be used to help us figure out the mood an Author is trying to portray in their story / novel/ poem.

GUIDED PRACTICE

• Students will read an event that took place in another’s student’s life.
• Students will read and annotate the student’s story/ event to figure out the mood they were trying to portray in their writing assignment. 
• Students are to select certain words that represent the mood/s the author was trying to portray.
• If the mood is different from what the author was trying to portray or there was no mood, students should show evidence of why they thought it was a different mood.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

• Reading and annotating text
• Working with the one another to talk about what was done well or not done well and improve on their writing.

SUMMARY

How can annotating be used to support a claim?