Taking the Fight to the Taliban: September 10, 2018

Focus: What does it mean to "take the fight to the Taliban"?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Reflecting on Reading Boot Camp and setting goals: Click HERE for the Google form.

3. Offering your the photo essay overview and making a few important distinctions

4. Exploring the Time photos: "Taking the Fight to the Taliban"

• Preview the text
• Activate background knowledge
• Make predictions
• Set a purpose
• Flip through and summarize

5. Selecting the photo that intrigues you the most and reading it closely

Click HERE for the reading journal. Make a copy of it and move it to your shared English 10 folder.

Fill in your middle column with details from the photo and the description underneath.

In the left-hand column...

• Ask Level 1, 2, and 3 questions
• Make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections
• Make inferences

The the right-hand column, quickly document which reading strategies you used.

HW:
1. For TOMORROW: Flip back through the photos one more time and add a row in which you reflect on and evaluate the meaning of the title, "Taking the Fight to the Taliban."

2. For FRIDAY:

• You get the week off from IXL. We will have an "Independent vs. Dependent Clause Reteach" on Wednesday and Friday in class.

• Independent reading