Week 3

Day 1 – Meet the Word Part “Divide and Conquer” Day 1

What parts do you notice in this word? How might you use “able” to define decipherable? Word Bust de = from, away, off Cipher = a message or secret way of writing

arguableaudible controllableportable decipherable Discussion Question Ideas: What do you know about the words? Where have you seen the words used in your daily life? What do these words seem to have in common? What other words could be added to this list? Why?

rootmeaning AnimLife, spirt Calorheat Graphwrite Judlaw Logue, logoIdea, word, speech, reason Phil, philoLove, friend Using our word part for the week, build and define new word. Some word parts are provided for you in the above table. Use at least one of the word parts below to create a new word with the word part able or ible. Provide a definition and sentence for your new word.

Ciphers differ from codes. A code substitutes one word or symbol for another word. During World War II, Native American radio communications specialists created a code using words from their languages, a code that was never broken or decoded by America’s enemies. These Native American “code talkers” called army tanks “wakaree’e”, the Comanche word for turtle. Transport planes were “atsa”, the Navajo word for eagle. “Paaki”, the Hopi word for houses on water, was used for the word ship. Other examples of codes are the Morse Code (which uses a combination of dots and dashes for letters) and semaphores (flags held in certain positions have different meanings). In these code situations, ordinary spoken or written language is difficult or not possible.

“Hop One.” This is an easy code to write, but a surprisingly weird and challenging one to decode! Just replace each letter with the one just after it in the alphabet. “Read a book,” for example, would be “Sfbe b cppl.” To make a “z”? Loop back to the start and write “a.” Write a secret message using the format above and have a partner try and decipher your message.

Divide the class into Teams A and B. Team A sits in a group on one side of the classroom, Team B sits on the other side. One member from each team goes to the board. The teacher flashes them a word, phrase, or expression written on a piece of paper. The students have one minute to get their respective team to say the item only by drawing pictorial clues on the board. Written words, verbal clues, or gestures are forbidden. The first team to say the word scores a point. Variation: The teams review their notes from prior lessons, and collectively come up with a list of items the other team will have to draw.