September+16,+2016+Activity+1.12a

Resources:

Today's lesson is about physical and emotional challenges.
 * Bellringer:**

Write a brief journal entry about a time when you faced a physical or emotional challenge.

--Analyze and compare a literary and an informational text on similar subjects. -- Make thematic connections relating to heroism in a written response.
 * Learning Targets:**

1. Introduce the TP-CASTT strategy (see the presentation PDF) 2. We read the poem "A Man" by Nina Cassian on page 56. 3. Using the TP-CASTT graphic organizer on pages 56-57 as a guide, students discussed the poems at their tables and analyzed the poems in their charts. 4. The TP-CASTT charts were submitted as classwork at the end of class.
 * Activities:**

Read your AR book for twenty minutes and complete your journal entry for the night.
 * Homework: **