1. Place your homework on your desk. Answer the following questions:
Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet.
Place your homework on your desk.
Answer the following questions:
Explicit, Implicit, Selflessness, Dimension, Nobility, Avenger
Example: How might an alien show selflessness to a giraffe?
Answer: The alien should beam the giraffe out of the zoo and up on to his ship. He should then serve him his favorite meal of grass and leaf flavored bubblegum.
What kind of explicit punishment should a knight get for not acting with nobility?
What would you call a dimension in space in which people avenge others for their crimes?
Would it be harder for a penguin to be selfless or to be an avenger? Why?
If a lion was angry with you, would you rather he be implicit or explicit when he told you about his feelings?

2. Agenda:
Warm-Up: Word Study
Mini-Lesson: Central Idea
Fluency Check: Part B of Busting Up Bullying
Work Period:
Grade 6: Chapters 7 and 8
Strategies Sheet: Summaries, Connections, Questions, Visualizations, Word Finder
Close Reading Strategy Sheet
Grade 7: Chapters 7, 8 and 9
Grade 8: Chapters 9 and 10
Closing: Answer the Content Questions

3. 8 How to Stop Yourself from Bullying
When trying to stop bullying, a basic element is needed: Everyone must be treated with respect. When kids don’t have respect modeled for them by others, bullying behavior might be the result. Someone who bullies other people is often showing what they have learned from others. It is also important to remember that bullying and hatred go together. Both begin when one person judges another. Next, they believe that others are “less” than they are.
Q: What makes some people not treat others with respect? Do they have something wrong with them?
Q, S, Conn., V., Word Finder:
Central Idea: Respect and not being judgmental are keys to ending bullying.

4. A. Bullies mostly learn their behavior from others.
Read the following paragraph:
8. When trying to stop bullying, a basic element is needed: Everyone must be treated with respect. When kids don’t have respect modeled for them by others, bullying behavior might be the result. Someone who bullies other people is often showing what they have learned from others. It is also important to remember that bullying and hatred go together. Both begin when one person judges another. Next, they believe that others are “less” than they are.
Which of the following statements is what the paragraph is mostly about?
A. Bullies mostly learn their behavior from others.
B. Respect and not being judgmental are keys to ending bullying.
C. When one person judges another, it leads to bullying.
D. Respecting others is the opposite of hatred.

5. Fluency Check Part B (Busting Up Bullying) 2 x’s Pace Expression
Accuracy

7. Closing: Content Questions:
Grade 6:
Chapter 7: Before reading the chapter, write down anything you already know about the war in Afghanistan. Then, when you’ve finished the chapter, think about whether your views have changed.
Chapter 8: How did the soldiers in Battle Company feel about Junger when he first came to Afghanistan?
Grade 7:
Chapter 7: Why did Amy Tan vow not to “have anything to do with anything Chinese” when she left home?
Chapter 8: How does Tan change during the time covered in this chapter?
Chapter 9: Why did Tan’s trip to China make her understand both how American she was and how Chinese she was?
Grade 8:
Chapter 9: Why would the gang put its new members through a ritual so violent that people could end up with broken limbs?
Chapter 10: Why is Maria “beyond caring” when she appears in court at the end of this chapter?