New Unit: Response to Literature

Tomorrow we will begin a new unit, Response to Literature, in which we will examine big ideas (themes) in stories. We will use some skills we already have mastered (such as text-to-self connections) and some that are new (such as tracking an "author's craft" and connecting big ideas in literature to the world at large).

We will begin the unit by examining what "big ideas" are, and finding them in a read-aloud, "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan.