north senior academy

Today’s Quick-Write:What animal would best represent

your personality? List 3 reasons.(What type of animal/bird best describes you?)

North SeniorAcademy

Diverse Urban Scholars

Urban Literacy

Targets:

I can determine the Gist of a text

I can find the SignificantMoments of a text

1. Analyze commercial text 2. Share Out a few Quick-Writes3. New Author4. Analyze video for Gist/Significant Moments5. Period 4 - Pretest

Today's Agenda:

• Metaphor• How is metaphor used to create a persuasive

or powerful text?

Analyze Commercial Text

On a trip to Chicago in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked:

“So often in these past two years I have had to watch my dream transformed into a nightmare . . . I have felt my dream falter as I have traveled through the rat-infested slums of our big city ghettos and watched our jobless and hopeless poor sweltering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.”

Richard Wright

Native Son

New Author . . .

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Dutchman

Amiri Baraka

• Born Leroi Jones (1934)• African American author &

political activist• founder of the

"Black Arts Movement“ – 1960s• Dutchman 1964

• find the gist of the text• find the significant moments• interpret the author’s ideas• analyze the author’s methods

T-Chart Text Analysis:Reading, Viewing, Listening

in order to . . .

Text Title (plus scene number or section)Gist Statement:

• SigMo (quote/event) • Reason

Meaning (surface & “between the lines”):

Methods:

Formal Letter Writing Pre-Test

Compose a formal letter to Principal Branch

respectfully expressing your main hopes, dreams or desires

for North Senior Academy.