M2U2 Lesson 6: Concrete Words and Sensory Details

M2U2 Lesson 6: Concrete Words and Sensory Details, Explaining Quotes

On the next slide, you will see your Do Now.

Learning Targets

• “I can explain how concrete words and phrases and sensory details convey experiences and events precisely.”

• “I can make connections between word choice and purpose.”

• You should remember these learning targets from Lesson 5. :)

Learning Targets

• “I can explain how concrete words and phrases and sensory details convey experiences and events precisely.”

• What are concrete words and phrases?

Multiple Choice

What are concrete words and phrases? Choose the BEST answer.

• Specific words that describe something so you can see what is happening

• Words made of rock

• Words that explain something in a story

Learning Targets

• “I can explain how concrete words and phrases and sensory details convey experiences and events precisely.”

• What are sensory details?

Multiple Choice

What are sensory details? Choose the BEST answer.

• words that describe

• words that tell about something

• words that use your five senses (sight, taste, touch, smell, and hearing) to describe something

Learning Targets

• “I can explain how concrete words and phrases and sensory details convey experiences and events precisely.”

• Sensory details are often explained using concrete words and phrases.

  Example: “The cake was delicious because it had sweet, buttery chocolate frosting on top.”

Learning Targets

• “I can make connections between word choice and purpose.”

• Word choice in this context refers to the choice of concrete words and phrases and sensory details the author has used and how these words achieve the author’s purpose.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that uses concrete language.

• The chameleon clamps one toe on one side of the stem and three on the other.

• The chameleon holds the stem.

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that uses sensory details.

• There was a noise coming from inside.

• There was a soft burr of noise coming from inside the cabin.

What are we doing today?

In this lesson, you will continue to work with an excerpt of The Most Beautiful Roof in the World to analyze how the concrete words and phrases and sensory details convey experiences and events and to make connections between the word choice and purpose.

Mystery Quotes: Concrete Language and Sensory Details

Read the quotes on the right, then think about what all the quotes have in common.

Use this concrete language and sensory details chart to help you answer the next question.

Open Ended

What do all of the quotes have in common?

Mystery Quotes: Concrete Language and Sensory Details

Read the quotes on the right, then think about what all the quotes have in common.

Multiple Choice

What do all of the quotes have in common? Choose the BEST answer.

• They are all about the rainforest.

• They all describe experiences in the rainforest through concrete language and sensory details.

• They all describe something.

Turn to pages 41-42 in your The Most Beautiful Roof in the World book and be ready to follow along as I read.

Go to Google Classroom and find the Lesson 6 materials, or page 80 in your paper workbook, before you continue through this lesson.

You will also need pages 41-42 in The Most Beautiful Roof in the World.

Explaining Quotes

Get your Explaining Quotes handout (see right).

Use the sentence stems on the handout as a guide.

Because this is a small excerpt, (p. 41) the context is the same for the whole excerpt, so you only have to fill this out once at the top of your organizer.

Explaining Quotes

Let's do the first quote together!

Remember, the context is that Meg, a rainforest scientist, is reading a story to her two sons in the rainforest while the plants and animals are moving around them.

Explaining Quotes

Next, let's write the quote under the "Quote" column.

“A chameleon clamps two toes on one side of a stem and three on the other and listens to

the soft burr of noise from inside, the place it cannot see.”

Explaining Quotes

Now, let's talk about what the quote helps us understand.

This quote helps us understand exactly how the chameleon moved on the stem.

Explaining Quotes

Last, let's write the following under the source:

Lasky, Katherine. The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. Pages 41-42.

Now it's your turn!

Complete the next 2 rows on your own.

Find 2 quotes from p. 41 and explain what they mean. The source should be the same.

When you are ready, advance the slide forward to check your answers!

Answers

Exit Ticket: Focus Statement

To wrap up this lesson, we will be focusing on this question.

You will need your Lesson 6 Google Classroom Exit Ticket or your page 82 in your paper workbook.

Focus Question

Remember, a focus statement is the main point an author will make in an essay.

Think about this question on the next slide and how you would answer it, then be ready to type your answer on the next slide.

Focus Question

“What does the author’s use of concrete language and sensory detail help you understand about the rainforest?”

Open Ended

“What does the author’s use of concrete language and sensory detail help you understand about the rainforest?”

Exit Ticket

I will collect the focus statements you wrote in order to help us pick 1 focus statement to write as a class.

Poll

Rate your understanding of the learning target below:

I can explain how concrete words and phrases and sensory details convey experiences and events precisely.

Poll

Rate your understanding of the learning target below:

I can make connections between word choice and purpose.