Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin. Place your homework on your desk. Read the following sentences: Nazario’s most agonizing encounters had little to do with her own safety. She hated to watch children in danger- and always wondered whether she should intervene. What words or phrases in the sentence might be context clues that help you determine the meaning of “agonizing”? What do you think the word “agonizing” means?
Copy the following term and its definition on your paper. Term: Agonizing Definition: Causing great mental pain
Causing great mental. Definition Term: Agonizing Story: Picture Agonizing Story: Picture Definition Causing great mental. Reminding Word:
Agenda Objective: To determine the central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. Essential Question: Gr. 7: How does the author of “A Dream for Many” convey the central idea? Warm-Up: Agonizing (context clues) Vocabulary: Agonizing (LINCS strategy) Whole Group: Review Stations (Early Release Day) Stations: 1. On the Record- BMH (Chapter 4) 2. Independent reading (fill out a “book” for books you have finished reading) 3. Technology: Achieve 3000 (College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College; Not the News; News at Your Fingertips 4. Teacher-led: Monitoring Station Work, answering questions and concerns; DAR test Closing: Vocabulary Review
Obtain: to get something (to come in to possession of something) Ultimate: the final or best Intense: exciting and scary Corrupt: bad; not doing the right thing Destination: a place one is going to Migrant: Someone who goes to one country to live from another country Panting: Breathing very heavily Refugee: Someone who leaves one country for another in order to be safe. Persecute: to treat someone terribly (especially because of religion, race, gender, etc.) 10. Desert: to leave someone and not go back to them 11. Poverty: a state of being poor 12. Harbor: to hold someone for safety 13. Limitation: Something that keeps you from doing what you want to do 14. Resolve: to decide to do something; to determine that you will do something 15. Intervene: To get in the middle of; to come between two things 16. Meager: Lacking in amount or condition. Or, Lacking in quantity or quality. 17. Agonizing: Causing great mental pain.
Homework
2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy Whole Group: Intro to stations: Technology: Achieve 3000 College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College; Not the News; News at Your Fingertips 2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy Reporting Live, Chapter 4 3. Independent reading- find a book Search quietly for a book to read independently here or at home. You may check the book out. Write name on list. Write your name on Post-It note. Place Post-It in book. Place book on shelf or take it with you. 4. Teacher-led: DAR test
Higher Order Thinking Questions (Chapter 4) 1. Do you agree with Nazario’s idea about not intervening when someone on the train was in trouble? Why or why not? 2. If you were a family member of Nazario’s, what would you have told her when she said she wanted to go on the train? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Closing What do “desert” and “harbor” have in common?