Freedom+Writers+Diary

Learning Outcomes: Students will
 * learn to identify (in reading) and provide (in writing) important details.
 * develop powerful personal narratives that include the use of sensory details, dialogue, internal monologue, and other literary devices.

Agenda: 1. Before Reading "The Freedom Writers Diary" media type="file" key="FreedomWritersStories.mp4" 2. Students read "The Freedom Writers Diary" (188-202).
 * Students read about the Reading Strategy: Determine Importance at the bottom of page 185.
 * The teacher models "How to determine what's important to you" using the sample paragraph on page 185.
 * Students view a clip from the movie Freedom Writers Diary. The clip features several readings and re-creations of real diary entries.
 * Students form groups of three to four.
 * The teacher has students read silently as the audio version of the selection plays.
 * The teacher pauses the recording in order to give students time answer questions in the margins. The questions are designed to help students recognize important details in writing. The questions are also designed to help students see how sensory details, dialogue, and other literary devices are used in personal narratives. Students work together to answer the questions and write the answers in their notebooks.