1.18- SHOOTING AN ELEPHANTPlease sit with your group at your table together

GOALS

Analyze an organizational structure of a reflective essay through close reading

Draft a reflective essay --------------------------------------------------- DO NOW- write in Journal-  Consider

the title of the essay, “Shooting an Elephant,” and read the details about the writer’s life on Page 61. Do you think Orwell is FOR or AGAINST imperialism?

Reflective Essay

Event Reflection

Response

Author describes the incident

Author reflects- usually long after- leads to universal discussion

Author describes feelings and thoughts about the event

Think of an event that taught you something and write some notes on the triangle (in your textbook-p60)

Response

Event Reflection (lessons learned)10

minutes

Diffuse (10 min)

Skim the essay looking for unfamiliar words In your group divide up the chunks and

each skim a section When you find an unfamiliar word,

underline and write similar word in context (or look up)

Reading/Listening• Event/Response/Reflection- USE 3 color

highlighters

As you listen, use metacognitive markers to look for : (write these at the beginning of each section) Positive and negative images (chunk 1) Cultural Conflict (chunk 3) Character (chunk 3) Situational Irony (chunk 4) Significant event (chunk 6)

After Reading

With your group, Come up with 3 levels of questions- two

for each level Pass your questions on to the next group

to discuss and answer

Answer the question on page 66

HOMEWORK

Using your triangle from the beginning of class…

Draft a reflective essay about a significant incident in your life that taught you a meaningful lesson.

Be sure to: Include a clear event, response, and

reflection. Use transitions to link the major sections of

the text DUE- next class

Sentence Envelopes- VERBALS Open your envelope and create a

sentence using ALL the words. You cannot add or subtract words.

Write your sentence in your journal.

Gerunds

A gerund is a verbal that is used as a noun in a sentence

Usually formed by adding “-ing” to a verb

“read” can become “reading” “Reading is fun.”- “Reading” is the

subject of the sentence, and therefore used as a noun.

Participles

A participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective or adverb in a sentence

Usually ends in –ing (present participle) or –ed (past participle)

The verb “burn” can become “burning” Ex. “The burning log fell off the fire.”-

“burning” is modifying “log”, and therefore being used as an adjective.

Infinitives

An infinitive is a verbal that can be used as a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence

It is formed by adding the word “to” before the basic form of the verb

The verb “run” becomes “to run” Ex. “All of the kids wanted to run on the

playground.”- “to run” functions as the direct object, noun, in this sentence.

Homework

Identify the VERBALS- Participle, Gerund, or Infinitive and its phrase in the sentence you created

Complete the reflective on page 67 Make sure that you use all three

verbals in your homework