Lesson Expectations

• review extra credit opportunity

• review novel study expectations

• review literary elements

• use context clues to determine the meaning of new or unknown words

• describe a conflict from two different perspectives

Extra Credit Opportunity!

Sharing Skies

While we read, I encourage you to annotate. Suggested ways to annotate:
- highlight important sections and make comments in the margins of your novel
- include important details on the Padlet we will use throughout upcoming lessons

Annotations

- During each lesson for The Sky We Shared, you will read 10 to 15 pages of the novel. However, instead of reading all of the pages at once, you will only read and annotate a few pages at a time, before pausing and thinking more critically about the text.

- When you pause, you will analyze important passages, share annotations, and answer questions related to those pages.
- Sometimes we will read together as a class, and sometimes you will read independently.

Lesson Format

Novel Study Overview

Lesson Questions and Assignments

You will be asked to write down your thoughts and responses to questions throughout this unit. I genuinely want to hear your ideas, opinions, and perspectives.
- You should answer these IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

- DO NOT skip these.

- DO NOT submit only a period.

- DO NOT use AI to generate a written response.

Conflict

Plot

Literary Elements

​Characterization

​Foreshadowing

Literary Elements

​Point of View

​Setting

Literary Elements

There are three ways you might determine and increase your understanding of unknown words. You can:

• infer meaning by using context clues, which are words or phrases that can provide a reader with enough hints to determine a word's meaning within the text;

• consult a reference source, such as a dictionary; and

• sketch an image to help you visualize a word's meaning.

In any text you read, you will come across new words whose definitions you may not be familiar with. The goal is NOT just to skip over them. You should sloooow down and use different strategies to help you define them.

3 Ways to Understand
Unfamiliar Words

Example of Figuring Out Unknown Words

A pronoun is a word that refers to a noun and can stand in its place. These pronouns typically replace proper names and can show the gender and number of the proper noun it is replacing. However, pronouns can also replace objects or animals.

Personal Pronouns