Unit 9.5: Making Connections

1. Unit 9.5: Making Connections
9th Grade English

2. • In this unit, we will learn to more effectively respond to
literature by making connections to the text. A major focus of
this unit will be to improve our ability to critically respond to
literature, including an evolving proficiency in summarizing and
expressing their opinions about literature, and working with the
writing process.
• We will leave the class able to use our learning about making
self to self, self to text and self to world connections with the
literature they are reading to better appreciate and better
understand what we read.
Unit 9.5: Making Connections

3. • • In what ways does literature contribute to our
understanding of the world?
•• How do the stories people tell give insight
into who they are?
•• How does this reading experience affect what
I think?
Important Questions

4. •Literature both reflects and contributes to
knowledge.
•Reading helps us make sense of the world.
•Prior knowledge and life experience shape
how writers develop and present their ideas
Important Ideas

5. • In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong
thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet. – Isaac B. Singer
• Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.- Unknown
• Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least
have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and
Inventor
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones
did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Dream. Discover.- Mark Twain
This Weeks Reflections

6. READ XL, Page 178

7. • Cause
• Effect
• Inference
• Relationship
• Response
Content Vocabulary

8. •Each student will think and write about
an independent or shared text in a
double entry journal. Each student will
set up the journal page like a t-chart
with the first column labeled “In the
text…” and the second column labeled
“This makes me think…”
Double Entry Journals

9. You will need to do the following
• • Use eye contact, smile, and BIG voice.
• • Show the book.
• • Name the book, author, and genre.
• • Summarize the book (but don’t tell the ending!).
• • Give a personal response to the book (connections,
thoughts, feelings).
• • Tell who would like this book or to whom you would
recommend it.
Unit 9.5 Performance Task – Book Chats

10. Suggestions for doing a great Book Chat
• Practice in front of a mirror, mom, dad, or anyone else.
• Include all of the required parts.
• Make sure you explain with details. Don’t say, “IU liked this book because
was good.” That doesn’t tell us anything!
• Retell an exciting, funny or emotional part of the book.
• Compare the book to others you have read.
• Make personal connections to the story. The audience like to know how
the book might relate to them.
• Remember that you are trying to “sell” your book or get others to read it.
Unit 9.5 Performance Task – Book Chats