Agenda
1) Warmup: Will your life be easier or harder after you are done with school?
2) New endings to "Priscilla and the Wimps."
3) Detail and Explanation
Homework
Detail and Explanation chart
Today we worked on the idea of making an assertion about a story and backing it up with evidence from the story. For homework, the students will make a chart of three details from the story that indicate what kind of school they go to in the story (elementary, middle, high, or college). Each detail is accompanied by an explanation of why that detail tells us what kind of school.
Example
Answer: High School
Detail: The students take showers in school.
Explanation: At most middle schools, the students don't take showers.
The detail is a fact from the story.
The explanation is the reason why the detail proves what you are saying.
