HEARTS AND HANDS

 

• HEARTS AND HANDS

  1. Students will read "Hearts and Hands" on page 264  of their text.
  2. Students will be introduced to IRONY and SURPRISE endings.
  3. Students will make predictions about the story
• *Pre-reading introduction to author on page 262-263
  O Henry - William Sydney Porter 1862-1910
  Born: Greensboro, NC
  Moved to Texas in 1886- Held a number of jobs including bank teller.  He was charged with embezzling  funds
  Fled to Honduras but faced charges and was sentenced to a three-year prison term.  Here he wrote short stories including this story.
  -Surprise Endings- When the unexpected happens at the end of a story.  Misleads reader

TEACHING GOALS:

• A. Students will review strategies for constructing meaning
  Goals:
  B. Students will discuss inferences, conclusions, comprehension/ text relationships, comparing and contrasting ideas and recognizing the writer's purpose.\
  

C. Essentially, students will realize that they are like detectives when they are reading, and these tools will help them find the essential clues needed for analysis and comprehension.

• R11.B.1: Understand components within and between texts.
  

  R11.B.2: Standard - 1.2.10.D: Analyze inferences and draw conclusions, citing textual support, based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

  Understand fiction appropriate to grade level.

  R11.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level.

  -Analyze inferences and draw conclusions based on text

  -Analyze the effectiveness of figurative language
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