Today you will

• Compare and contrast many genres of text for commonplace assertions, factual claims, bias, and author’s purpose.

• Summarize important events sequentially.• Write supporting details for the main idea of

texts in the form of captions

Skim back over “Three Skeleton Key”

• Retell the 6 most important events from this story plot in sequential order

• Choose to explain why 2 of them are so important to the plot of the story

“Three Skeleton Key”

• What genre does this text represent?• What language used by the author shows the

genre for this text?

Read the text, “Rat Stats” silently

• Look up at me when you are finished• What genre does this text represent?• What language used by the author shows the

genre for this text?• What are the three most important factual

claims made by the author of this text?• What can you conclude about the author’s

purpose for writing this text?

2nd reading

• Why does the author claim rats are “super rodents with amazing powers”

• What vocabulary shows the author’s bias towards rats?

biased language author’s feeling it revealed

Write a detail that supports the main idea from the article as a caption for ONE of the images below:

A. B.

Write a detail that supports the main idea from the article as a caption for ONE of the images below:

A. B.

How did the maritime rats from “Three Skeleton Key” get paid by the pied piper?

How is this text similar to and different from “Like Black Smoke” and “Three Skeleton Key”

“Rat Stats”

“Like Black Smoke”

“Three Skeleton Key”