Students treated La Línea chapter 16 in an opposite manner. We focused on finding 3 unimportant events or details. Each student wrote 3 but reported to the whole class 1. We built a list of 5 unimportant events. Examples:
Miguel saw 4 rats.
Elena spread out her shawl.
Then the whole class refocused on the important events.
Class discussed the significance of the word "Inference" (what was being said implicitly in the third to the last paragraph). In other words what did we learn about Colmillo, what might he do?
Posed with the statement that Ann Jaramillo's writing style is too dramatic, students individually rewrote the same paragraph to make it less dramatic.
To reinforce the lesson, students read the paragraph that starts "In a small monotone..." on page 51. They identified the following:
1. What is one unimportant detail?
2. Where exactly is Ann Jaramillo being too dramatic?
3. What can you infer from the paragraph?
Homework:
Check the Class's blog for "secret" instructions
Read College Reading 3 pages 77-79
Read Chapter 17 of La Línea
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