WHY LEAVES TURN COLOR IN THE FALL

Why Leaves turn Color in the Fall

ELA.8.V.1.3: Apply knowledge of context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the connotative and denotative meanings of words and phrases, appropriate to grade level

Context and connotation eSSENTIAL bENCHMARK voCABULARY

ela.8.v.1.3: aPPLY KNOWLEDGE OF CONTEXT CLUES, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, WORD RELATIONSHIPS, REFERENCE MATERIALS, AND/OR BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE TO DETERMINE THE CONNOTAIVE AND DENOTATIVE MEANING OF WORDS AND PHRASES, APPROPRIATE TO GRADE LEVEL.

why leaves turn color in the fall

by Diane Ackerman

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just to have lived the width of it as well.

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text sections and text features

analyze how individual text sections and/or features convey a purpose and/or meaning in texts.

Guided Practice

How does this section of the text convey purpose and/or meaning?

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

RESPONSE

Central Ideas

Analyze two or more central ideas and their development throughout a text

Central Idea

Author's use various types of support:

Einstein believes that, "experience is the only source of knowledge."

Oceans cover two-thirds of the Earth's surface

FACTS

QUOTATIONS

Carey was lethargic; she did not have enough energy to get out of bed.

Small animals feed on marine snow and become prey for larger hunters.

DEFINITION

DETAILS

The most important or central thoughts unifying elements of a text....

What does the author want the reader to learn about the topic?

Central Ideas & their Development

Descsribe how the author develops the central ideas throughout the text

Think about how each type of evidence supports the central idea

Find facts, definitions, quotations, and details that support each central idea within the textg

connect the topic with the points being made to determine the central ideas.

Identify the topic of the text

• central idea

Define the meaning of the following words.

• development

Determining Two or more central ideas in an informational text

Practice

Guided Practice

Developing the Central Idea

5 Not all leaves turn the same color. Elms, weeping willows, and the ancient ginkgo all grow radiant yellow, along with hickories, aspens, bottlebrush buckeyes, cottonweeds, and tall, keening poplars. Basswood turns bronze, birches bright gold. Water-loving maples put on a symphonic display of scarlets. Sumacs turn red, too, as do flowering dogwoods, black gums, and sweet gums.

Step 1: identify the topics of the text

Step 2: Find facts, definitions, quotations and details that support the topic(s)

Step 3: Determine multiple central ideas and describe their development throughout the text

Author's Purpose

R.2.3- Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language

Essential Benchmark Vocabulary

Perspective

Establish

Rhetorical Appeal

Acheive

Author's Purpose

Figurative Language

Rhetorical Appeals Notes

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GUided Practice

Directions: Review the text evidence. Explain how rhetorical appeals and figurative Langage establish and achieve the author's purpose from this section of the text.

6 Colored like living things, they signal death and disintegration. In time, they will become fragile and, like the body, return to dust. They are as we hope our own fate will be when we die; not to vanish, just to sublime from one beautiful state to another. Though leaves lose their green life, they bloom with urgent colors, as the woods grow mummified day by day, and Nature becomes more carnal, mute, and radiant.

What rhetorical appeal is being used?

What figurative language is being used?

How do they show the author's purpose?

Independent Practice

Directions: Annotate the text for language that creates an appeal and the use of figurative language. Then complete the table to explain your annotations and make a connection to the author's purpose of the text.

How does this section of the text convey purpose and/or meaning?

Overall, the bigger picture this section of the text conveys meaning by signaling to the reader the end of the nature cycle, the end of the scientific process, as well as the closing of the article's explanation of how leaves turn color.

Explain how a section of a text is significant

Determine the text features (headings, captions, photographs, illustrations, charts...) in text(s).

Analyze how individual text section and/or features convey a purpose and/or meaning in text(s)

Establish

to set up or create a foundation for

Achieve

to successfully accomplish or bring about

Author's Purpose

The writer's intent for the text they are creating: to persuade, inform, or entertain

Perspective

The author's attitude toward a topic or subject.

Rhetorical Appeals

The effects (ethos, pathos, and logos) used to make a text truly persuasive to its audience

Figurative Language

Words or phrases used in a way that differs from their literal meaning to create a specific effect; figure of speech