1. Word Up! (5 minutes) ▪ Share your words with the people around you! ▪ Be ready to share with the class!

2. Do Now Please find your group. With your group, go through the quiz together and discuss each vocabulary quiz question. Mark the question by highlighting, underlining, or writing in the margins key words that helped you to arrive at your answer. Mark ONE answer as a group that you believe is the correct answer.

3. Today's Objectives and Agenda: Students will be able to define unknown vocabulary words by using context clues and roots to demonstrate an understanding of the words meaning. Students will be able to understand the history of the English language and its evolution and how that has impacted our cultures, societies, thoughts, and beliefs. 1. Do Now: Root Quiz Review (10 minutes) 2. Go Over Root Quiz/Pass Back Scores (10 minutes) 3. Review "The History of the English Language" Video Questions (5 minutes) 4. Go through the "Ten Ways English Words are Created." (10 minutes) -Class Discussion 5. Lesson: Dialect/Slang 6. Homework

4. Root Quiz Review ▪ Quiz Quiz

5. "The History of the English Language" ▪ Fill in your answers as we discuss. ▪ Stop and ask questions as they arise.

6. "Ten Ways Words are Formed" Discuss: -Thoughts? -Ahas! -Questions? -Confusions?

7. Formal Conversation vs. Informal Conversation ▪ Activity: On a piece of notebook paper, have a conversation with your partner informally using slang and your own dialect about something that just happened to you or about something you want to inform them of. ▪ Highlight any words that you feel are slang and/or part of your own individual dialect. ▪ Share. ▪ Do you speak the same to your friends as you do your parents and/or coworkers? Why or why not?

8. Dialect: ▪ A particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. ▪ What dialect do you classify yourself as? ▪ Do you feel some dialectal groups are stereotyped against? Why do you think these stereotypes exist? ▪ Do you think there is a dominant dialect that we consider the most powerful? Why? ▪ Activity: Each group has a different dialect. Discuss what stereotypes are associated with your dialect and talk about how you think your particular dialect was created.

9. Slang: ▪ Slang is slang for colloquialism. ▪ a type of language that is very informal and that is usually specific to a particular context or group of people. ▪ How does slang both shape and reflect culture? ▪ Activity: Write a slang word or saying on a notecard. Share it with the class explaining its meaning. Then, hang it on our slang board!

10. Homework: ▪ Please complete the activity on reading poems using dialect. ▪ Due: X-day (Wednesday), Y-Day (Thursday)