Lesson Overview : Jane O ' Connor's ' The Fabulous Fashion Boutique '

RL.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. ELA-Literacy. RL.6.2: Determine a theme of central idea of a text and ho it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. ELA-Literacy.

“I am no bird, and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will.” This is a quote from Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre. The character Jane reminds me of a famous immigrant in American history who led women to break out of traditional roles. Her name was Liz Claiborne, an innovative designer who was the first to realize that every working woman wasn’t ending up in the boardroom or aspiring to [corporate life] (Bernstein 1). It is unquestionably hard for immigrants to prove themselves in a foreign country, but Liz Claiborne did it. Liz Claiborne was a Belgian who immigrated to America and changed fashion and business industries in U.S. due to her innovations.

In her 2010 TED talk, titled “Lessons from fashion’s free culture”, Johanna Blakely describes how the fashion industry’s lack of copyright and patent protection has allowed it to thrive in the economic market. This is mainly because designers have been able to recycle the same building blocks of fashion to create innovate, utilitarian designs into what we regard as art to adorn ourselves. In this talk, she urges other creative industries to adopt this concept.

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

The essential literacy strategy goes along with the standards and learning objectives by using context clues to help the student figure out unknown or unfamiliar words. Students will build reading comprehension skills by using context clues for figuring out unknown or unfamiliar words while they are reading. Then the students will perform the strategies individually. The related skills address the use of prior knowledge of synonyms and antonyms during the hook and transition portion of the lesson. The reading and writing connections go along with the learning objectives, because the students will read their assigned book and picking out words they do not understand. The students will have to write the sentence with the unknown word in it, and use context clues to figure out the definition of the unknown word. The central focus for this unit of study is for the students to use context clues to better their comprehension of what they have read in their assigned books. The students will be able to use context clues within sentences to determine the meaning of unknown or unfamiliar words. These lessons deal with comprehending text by using context clues to help figure out unknown words. The lessons build off each other by adding more detail to learning about context clues. As the lessons progress the students will be more independent when using context clues. The first lesson is learning about what context clues are. The second lesson will focus on using context clues to figure

Use context clues (in the sentence or on the page) to determine the meaning of words in A Long Walk to Water.

2) Denotation- is the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. The connotation of a word is its emotional content.

RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Students will demonstrate their knowledge on vocabularies by identifying the new words listed in the text and researching and explaining at least three of them in their own words

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

A text is the content in a message or any printed material. There are basic ways that are used in reading to make the learner gain, retain, and understand the content. For instance, one way is by applying the top, down, and bottom up strategy; which people use in their native language. Reading involves, previewing, predicting, skimming and scanning, guessing and paraphrasing (Tsai 120).

My first word that is very important is murder,the connotative meaning is when someone is killed and the denotative definition is the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. It’s important to the book because they are solving a murder case. My second word is protect,the connotative meaning of it is to defend something or someone and the denotative definition is to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger. Its important to the book because Mickey is willing to do anything to protect his friends and family from the killer. My third word is mystery,the connotative meaning of the word is something you can’t figure out and the denotative definition is anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown. It’s important to the book because

After spending a few years in the industry, staring as a wardrobe stylist, Jeneen has changed careers that include being a single mother of twin girls and a flight attendant for Southwest Airline. Her work as a stylist consists of commercials for Target and fashion shows during Fashion Week in New York. All things dealing with fashion Jeneen Talbert is concentered an expert to many.

Exhibit 2: GFE Associates: Analysis of Attitudinal Clusters in U.S. Television Households for The Fashion Channel