Story: The Nightingale

Theme: Beyond the Notes (U4, L2)

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Genre: Fairy Tale

Characteristics of the Genre

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Selection Vocabulary

- coquetry, exquisite, stilted, tomes, tone-deaf

Preview/PredictionsWithout reading (look at pictures, titles, etc.) make 3 predictions about the story.

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Questioning Ask questions about what you are reading

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Monitor and Clarify/Context Clues: Use context clues or a dictionary to help define unknown words.

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Prior Knowledge. Write 3 examples of your “Prior Knowledge” to this selection.

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Connections. Write 3 connections to this selection. Text to text. Self to text. World to text.

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Visualizing What mental images did you have throughout this story. List or draw 2-3.

Summarizing In 4-5 good sentences, summarize the story

5 Significant Details from the Story.

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Author’s Purpose: What is the author’s purpose of this story?

Find/Write 2 sentences to support your claim. Cite pages.

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Explain in your own words.

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Point of View: From whose point of view was this story told?

Evidence (cite pages):

Fill in appropriate details for each section regarding the purpose of this story.

Who:

What:

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Main Idea and Supporting Details

  1. What is the main idea of pgs 386-387?

2. what are the supporting details?

3. MI of pgs 388-389?

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5. MI pgs 390-391:

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7. MI pg 392:

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9. pg 394, MI:

  1. pg 395, MI:

11. examples/details that show why/how Emperor and the people have been tricked into making a mistake in judgment.

  1. pg 396-397, MI:
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Comprehension Strategy:

1. Quickly sketch the visualization/images that you have/had in your mind when reading this selection.

The Emperor’s porcelain palace-

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Lush gardens-

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Deep forest where the Nightingale lives-

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2. Use another piece of paper to complete this assignment. Find a poem from any source. Copy the poem/lines that demonstrate visualizations. Quickly sketch the images you had/have in your mind.

Poem Title: ______

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Literary Elements: Reading Fairy Tales. You will need to know or find another fairy tale to complete this assignment.

1. Major characteristics of fairy tales in the selection:

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2. Major characteristics of a different fairy tale( ______):

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Tie in to the Theme: How does this story related to the theme: Beyond the Notes? Give evidence below.

Main Idea: what the selection is mainly about

Supporting Details: further information to help the reader understand. Cite pages.

About the Story:

Literary Elements Worksheet

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

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CHARACTERIZATION

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TONE/MOOD

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