Lesson #9 (Cycle 1)

Impromptu speaking activity

• directions: build on the previous sentence of another student

Introduction to Freytag’s Pyramid

• definitions of each component

• label your own the diagram

Main idea

• definition of main idea (cookie analogy)

• finding the main idea and supporting details of a paragraph from Black Beauty

• group-share

Context clues

• worksheet

• examples using unfamiliar words

Book distribution #2

• the girls choose the books they want based on the summaries