1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet. Answer the following questions: 1.Is it good to be inquisitive when you are young? Why? 2.Do you live in one of the contiguous states? How do you know? Vocabulary 6: Contiguous, Sanction, Intervene, Witness, Influence, Inquisitive, Intrepid, and Persistent

2. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet. Answer the following questions: 1.What is one event that you would like to be a part of your memoir? 2.Would you want someone who practices discrimination to be introspective one day? Why or why not? Vocabulary 7: introspective, perceptive, eloquent, intentions, heritage, discrimination, refuge, memoir

3. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet. Answer the following questions: 1.What is one tactic for getting better grades? 2.When going for a job interview, would it be better to be resourceful, resolute, or defiant? Why? Vocabulary 8: resilient, resolute, resourceful, defiant, triumph, tactic, prestigious, alien

4. Vocabulary Quiz Clear desk of all items except your folder and pen/pencil. 10 minutes to complete the quiz. Keep your answers covered with your folder. Put your head down when you are finished.

5. Vocabulary Pre-test Set #2 Clear desk of all items except your folder and pen/pencil. 10 minutes to complete the pre-test. Keep your answers covered with your folder. Put your head down when you are finished.

6. Agenda Grade 6 Objective: Determine the new vocabulary words. Practice visualization and summarization. Warm-Up: Practice vocabulary. Mini-Lesson Time: Today, we will conduct the vocabulary quiz and the vocabulary pre-test for set #2 during the mini-lesson time. Review what we are doing in the stations. Stations: Black Widow: Finish reading chapter 3 and completing pink sheet and complete the Close Reading Activity Sheet. Hulk: Finish Superhero Superintendent and one more article Water Park Makes Waves Workers Wanted Fire or No, We Won’t Go Point and Read The Ride of the Future

7. Agenda Grades 7 and 8 Objective: Determine the new vocabulary words. Practice visualization and summarization. Warm-Up: Practice vocabulary. Mini-Lesson Time: Today, we will conduct the vocabulary quiz and the vocabulary pre-test for set #2 during the mini-lesson time. Review what we are doing in the stations. Stations: Hulk: Water Park Makes Waves Workers Wanted Fire or No, We Won’t Go Point and Read The Ride of the Future Black Widow: Grade 7: Chapter 4 of Family Ties (3 strategies) Grade 8: Chapter 6 (3 strategies)

8. Content Questions Grade 7: What does Obama mean when he says his father was a “myth” to him, “both more and less than a man”? Grade 8: Name at least three elements at the military academy that had positive effects on Wes Moore. Explain how each affected him.

9. Closing Write down one thing you learned from the Achieve 3000 articles today.