November 6 & 7, 2025
Agenda
* Starter: An American Childhood Quiz
* Complete #4 of the Cognitive Reading Strategies Notes while you view the presentation.
Practice #1: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Respond on Canvas:
- Since ________________________ happened, I think ________________________ happened to the children.
- How do you think the story will end?
- What is the message or big idea of the text?
- Were my predictions correct?
- My predictions were right/wrong because….
- I thought ________________________ was going to happen, but ________________________ happened instead.
- How did making the prediction help me with this reading?
- I think this will be about ________________________ because… [Make a prediction based on the title]
- I think this will be about ________________________ because… [Briefly skim the story and make a prediction]
- I predict that… [Make a prediction based on what we have read so far]
- ________________________ makes me think that ________________________ will happen.
- I think ________________________ is going to happen next.
- What do you think happened to the children and their father?
Writing Response / Prompt #1: What is The Misfit’s philosophy? How does he see things differently from the grandmother?
- Rubric
Writing Response / Prompt #2: “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit explains, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” Explore the significance of the brief eulogy of the grandmother that concludes this short story. What does the Misfit recognize about the grandmother in this moment? Was the grandmother a “good woman” or not?
- Rubric
