1. Warm Up:
Ligers, wholphins, groler bears… Should humans hybridize animals? Write a paragraph explaining your answer. **THIS WILL BE TURNED IN**
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2. Directions:
Set up notebook page with categories: problems, causes, people, vocab words

3. Directions:
Work with your elbow partner to sort the words into the categories
After all words have been sorted, work together to write 1-2 sentences predicting what the main idea of the article is. Use at least 2 words from each category. Be prepared to share!

4. Vocab Words:
Solar System Interstellar Scientists Astronomers scrambled trajectory intrigued zipped steep asteroid

5. Main idea:
Astronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through our Solar System on a steep trajectory from Interstellar Space.
*Notice that the sentence didn’t start with “I think…” or “The article…”

6. Read and Annotate the Article:
Highlight: the main idea of each paragraph
Underline: vocab. words
Circle: any other unknown words
“?” by something you don’t understand.
Turn the annotated article into the basket at the end of the period