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Turtles and Buffalos

Unit 1 Lesson 5: “Guts: Hunting and Fishing with Primitive Weapons

Preview the Topic

Jot down 3 facts you learned from the Gary Paulsen YouTube clip.

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T-Map: Fact and Opinion

Fact / Opinion

Fact and Opinion – Scholastic News Article

Facts / Opinions

Reach Higher!

Follow the directions on the Word Study Chart on this sheet of paper.

Reference Sources page Reader’s Notebook p. 51 – Grab and Go (As an extra?)

Analyze the Text Questions

We will continue using PEL but will add the second E this week… Explain.

Point – What are you trying to prove? Restate the question into the idea you want to get across.

Evidence – Use one piece of evidence directly from the text to support your answer. Use an introduction phrase to start the quote. Examples: “The text says,” “On page 24 it says,” or “For example, the character says...” and use quotation marks to explain the quote

Explain- Explain the evidence or quote and how it relates to the question.

Remember to look back at the specific pages mentioned in the question to assist you in answering the questions. SUPPORT your thinking with the text!

Link— Link your conclusion sentence back up to your “P” sentence. Use a conclusion phrase to begin your sentence and rephrase the “P” sentence. Examples: “In conclusion,” “All in all,” and “As you can see.”

Example of a PEEL paragraph using all the parts.

Analyze Events

Analyze the anecdotes in the selection to explain the events that lead to Gary Paulsen to hunt with an arrow.

P: There are anecdotes in the selection to explain why Gary Paulsen began to hunt with an arrow.

E: According to the text, Gary states “There is nothing worse than what the sounds of a gun does to the woods.” Also, Gary states that “With a bow there is silence, or near silence—only the soft twang of the string when released—and the purity of the forest remain.”

E: This shows that Gary did not like the way the forest sounded and was disrupted when a gun went off. He preferred the way a bow was silent and didn’t change the forest.

L: In conclusion, there were a couple of events that lead Mr. Paulsen to hunt with an arrow.

Fact and Opinion

Gary Paulsen argues that famous archer, Howard Hill, was incredible. Explain how the facts in the selection support the author’s claim.

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Author’s Purpose

Discuss words and phrases in the text that let you know Gary Paulsen’s two purposes for writing Guts. Think PIE!

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