1. Challenges and Obstacles
Unit 3 Week 2 Day 3

2. Question of the Week:
How can our determination affect our ability to succeed?

3. Generalization A broad statement that applies to many examples
Example: Most students bring a lunch to school.
Valid or faulty?
Clue words: everyone, everybody, most,
all, always, never

4. Which of the following is a generalization?
I love the month of December.
Most people here enjoyed their Thanksgiving Break.
They can’t wait for winter break.

5. Generalizations Faulty: Everyone in the class loves chocolate.
Valid: Most students in the class love chocolate.

6. Tested Vocabulary
application: an official request for dramatic: like a drama; of or about plays something, such as a job, an education, or a loan

7. Tested Vocabulary
enraged: very angry; furious formal: according to set customs or rules; official; orderly

8. Tested Vocabulary:
momentous: very important opera: a play in which music has an essential and prominent part

9. Tested Vocabulary
prejudice: unreasonable dislike of an privileged: having special rights, idea or a group of people advantages, or favor

10. Tested Vocabulary
recital: a musical entertainment, usually given by a single performer

11. Principle Parts of Irregular Verbs
Grammar transparency

12. Background on “When Marian Sang”
Genre: Biography
the story of a real person’s life written by another person
may cover a person’s whole life, a part of it, or just one incident
Marian Anderson
African American singer
One of the most celebrated voice of the 1900s
Participant in the Civil Rights Movement

13. Class Work: Partner read “When Marion Sang”
“When Marion Sang” graphic organizer (due tomorrow)
Spelling menu (due Friday)
Read choice novel