McGraw Wonders Unit 4 Week 2
Essential Question: What can you discover when you give things a second look?
Reading Strategy Focus for the Week:
Comprehension Strategy -
Visualize
Point of View
Mystery
Comprehension Strategy -
Visualize
- pay close attention to stage directions and scene descriptions, as well as to the characters’ dialogue.
- many actions that take place in a play are not mentioned by the characters when they speak.
- pause periodically while reading and use details in the text, along with their prior knowledge, to picture what characters look like, where they are located, and what they are doing.
Point of View
- A character who has lines in a play is called a speaker. Each speaker uses the first person (I, me) to deliver lines of dialogue from his or her point of view, or perspective.
- In some plays, one speaker may be a narrator, who provides information from a point outside of the main action of the play. •
- This narrator is often an unknown individual who did not participate in the play’s events. In “Where’s Brownie?”, however, the narrator is one of the characters reflecting on past events.
- The narrator may speak in the first person or may use the third person to comment on or share feelings about events in the play.
Mystery
- Most events in a mystery play center on a mystery, or problem, that the characters must solve by connecting different clues.
- Like most plays, mystery plays are primarily made up of dialogue among the characters.
- Setting descriptions inform readers about where and when the action takes place. Stage directions indicate how the characters speak their lines and what movements they make.
- Like most plays, mystery plays may be divided into acts, which can be further divided into scenes.
- Often, a change in act or scene means that there will also be a change in the setting, such as time and location.
Vocab 3/9-3/13- astounded, concealed, inquisitive, interpret,perplexed, precise,reconsider, and suspicious.
"Where's Brownie?"
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