Literature Objectives and Conepts

HOB Literature Notebook

Pick an object for a reading activity

Objective Students will read the story and answer literal comprehension questions from memory, or rereading the text to find appropriate references. 
Concept Information used to tell a story has words that specifically describe objects, ideas, and events within the story.

Objective After reading the story students will answer interpretive comprehension questions, from memory or rereading the text, by using reasoning skills to join literal references to make interpretive analysis. 
Concept Sometimes information about characters feelings, actions, and reasoning are not described specifically within the story, but can be interpreted or inferred by reasoning about intentions or motivations by relating ideas, that are not specifically described in the text, like clues and hints to solve a problem.

Objective Students will read the story and identify, from memory or rereading the text, the setting, main character, minor character, and plot.
Concept All stories have a sequence of events that happen at a certain time and place that involves and object or objects that have self-awareness.

Objective Students will use their definition sheets, created in previous classes, to identify, from memory or rereading the text, the setting, main character, minor character, and plot after reading the story __________ and share their answers and reasons for those answers with the class.
Concept All stories have a sequence of events that happen at a certain time and place that involves and object or objects that have self-awareness.

Objective Students will use the examples of similes, discussed and recorded in their journals, in class to identify three similes while reading chapter three, share their examples with the class, and reason why they selected each.
Concept A simile is a comparison that uses like, as and occasionally than to describe something in a manner that communicates a deeper understanding with economy of words or beyond a physical or direct description.

Robert Sweetland's Notes ©