Introduction

Amanda and Monique The Black Stallion Directions: After reading the book, we will create our own book. Our purpose is first learn task specific (TLA, 152) strategies for helping them to understand how to read The Black Stallion in depth.

Sunshine State Standard: Benchmark Number: LA.5.2.1.5 Benchmark Description: The student will demonstrate an understanding of a literary selection, and depending on the selection, include evidence from the text, personal experience, and comparison to other text/media.

Rationale: To teach task specific strategies for interpreting text and understanding characterization. Also, we will teach about note taking (TLA, 106), so that the students will come equipped with some idea of prior knowledge and experience from the text that they have envisioned. Note taking will be essential to creating their book.

We will use the book, The Three Little Pigs to demonstrate close reading and note taking techniques. Also, provide students with prior knowledge and experience from reading the same text to do the activity.

I will also use the information that the students record after we read the text together to show them how to create there very own storyboard comic anthology using those salient points taken from the text. This will be used to help facilitate envisionment building that they will use to create the storyboard comic anthology.

Activity, we will hand out blank sheet of paper that they will use to jot down important information of points that stand-out to them while I am reading from the text on the one side of the paper. After we have completed the text, the student will turn the paper over and fold into fours. They will refer to their notes and from memory four important events that they will illustrate. They do not have to worry about drawing perfect pictures. They can draw stick figures or whatever they feel they can depict the story. This is exactly what we want them to do when they re-read chapters 1-5. For each chapter they will do what we did in class.

We will start by learning how interpret narratives by explaining character actions (TLA, 131).

This is a template, like a form to use to guide you in how to pull out important information in the book. Use this same format tonight when you re-reading chapters 1-5. Act: “What does the character do?” “What do you think the characters are doing in Three Little Pigs?” (Children will recall and give examples) Situation: “How does the character understand the situation in which he acts?” (How did the little pigs respond to what was going on?) Agent: “What is the characters moral character?” (Remember we talked about morals and what is considered good and bad or right or wrong. So, what do think about the characters and their morals in the Three Little Pigs.) “How does the character understand himself as the agent in this act?” (So, where the pigs considering the good/bad, right or wrong morals of the other characters when faced with an issue.) Purpose: “What does the character intend-aim to gain or accomplish by this act?” (What are the pigs trying to do in the story? What is the wolf trying to do in the story?) Attitude: “With what attitude or feeling does the character perform this act?” (Remember we talked about emotions and how they drive our actions. Some of our emotions are happy, sad, scared, mad, excited, etc.. So, what these character feeling that affected their actions in the story.)