Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Chapter 1

April 21, 2020 

Standard

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Objective

I can determine two or more themes or central ideas through inferences and provide objective summaries.

Inference Activity Answer from Thursday

Video

Here is a short video I made that includes information for our class.

What's a Topic?

Vocabulary

Word: Topic

Part of Speech:  noun

Dictionary Definition: the subject of a discourse or of a section of a discourse

Your Definition: 

Activity: Watch the Pixar short video For the Birds and identify one or two topic words.  

Activity

1.  Resources on Topic and Main Idea

Use the ThoughtCo. link to review how to identify topics, summarize passages, and identify main ideas.  Take notes when necessary.

How to Find the Main Idea.

2.  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the Project Gutenberg

Use the link above to access the reading material for the next few weeks.

Your task is read to read chapter one, "Story of the Door."  

Once you have completed the reading, test you knowledge of our skills by answering the discussion questions in the Google Form. 

Chapter One Discussion Form

We will discuss this during office hours today.