1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin.
Place your homework on your desk.
Read the following sentences.
Then, answer the questions below.
The person acted as though he did not want to be seen.
“Hello,” Thomas said to him.
Instead of answering, the person gave up all pretense of stealth and started running, crashing through the forest line around the clearing of the graveyard, circling toward the spot where Thomas stood.
1.What words or phrases in the sentences might be context clues that help determine the meaning of the underlined word?
2. What do you think the underlined word means?

2. The person acted as though he did not want to be seen.
“Hello,” Thomas said to him.
Instead of answering, the person gave up all pretense of stealth and started running, crashing through the forest line around the clearing of the graveyard, circling toward the spot where Thomas stood.
What does the word “pretense” mean based on the context clues?
Exaggeration
Denial
Clarity (clearness)
Pretending; make believe

3. The person acted as though he did not want to be seen.
“Hello,” Thomas said to him.
Instead of answering, the person gave up all pretense of stealth and started running, crashing through the forest line around the clearing of the graveyard, circling toward the spot where Thomas stood.
2. Which phrase served as the best context clue for “pretense?”
The person acted as though he did not want to be seen
“Hello,” Thomas said to him.
Instead of answering
circling toward the spot where Thomas stood
What does the word “pretense” mean based on the context clues?
Exaggeration
Denial
Clarity (clearness)
Pretending; make believe

4. Pretense: Pretending; make believe

5. Pretending; make believe.
Term:
 Pretense
Story:
Picture
Definition:
Pretending; make believe.
Reminding Word:

6. Obtain: to get something (to come in to possession of something)
Ultimate: the final or best
Intense: exciting and scary
Corrupt: bad; not doing the right thing
Destination: a place one is going to
Migrant: Someone who goes to one country to live from another country
Panting: Breathing very heavily
Refugee: Someone who leaves one country for another in order to be safe.
Persecute: to treat someone terribly (especially because of religion, race, gender, etc.)
10. Desert: to leave someone and not go back to them
11. Poverty: a state of being poor
12. Harbor: to hold someone for safety
13. Limitation: Something that keeps you from doing what you want to do
14. Resolve: to decide to do something; to determine that you will do something
15. Intervene: To get in the middle of; to come between two things
16. Meager: Lacking in amount or condition. Or, Lacking in quantity or quality.
17. Agonizing: Causing great mental pain.
18. Murky: Dark and gloomy.
19. Vulnerable: Weak and able to be attacked.

7. Residency: the right to be able to say you officially live in the U.S..
Artifact: an item of historical value.
Diversity: the state of having people of different backgrounds and cultures.
Intrude: to interfere or cut in.
Integrity: The quality of being an honest and strong moral person
Heritage: Your upbringing. Your traditions and culture.
Memoir: A diary, a biography, a record of events that someone writes about their life.
Banter: talking in a joking or teasing manner.
Condolences: words of sympathy or sorry for someone who is suffering
Ambitious: Puts forth a lot of effort to reach goals.
Complex: Complicated.
Resentful: Hateful
Vow: to promise
Economist: Someone who studies how much stuff is being sold or bought in a country so the country can make money.
Innovation: The act of creating or starting something new.
Prestigious: Something that has a great reputation and is well-respected
Pall: anything that covers with darkness or gloom
Impersonate: Pretend to be another person
Veil: A covering, normally over the face
Turbulent: Rough and destructive

8. Ascend: to move upward.
Consumed: to be filled up with (or, to be overcome by)
Disorienting: filling with confusion
Dilapidated: falling apart; run-down and damaged
Malicious: wicked or harmful
Congregating: Gathering in a group
Churning: Working hard
Weary: Very tired
Suppress: To stop or put an end to
Appendage: Something smaller that sticks out from something larger
Eradicate: Destroy completely; put an end to
Complexity: ability to be complicated and confusing
13. Anticipation: the act of wanting something badly
14. Inexplicably: Unable to be explained
15. Indecipherable: Unable to be understood
16. Banished: Sent away as punishment
17. Ominous: giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening
18. Contemplation: Thinking hard about something
19. Replenished: Built back up; restored
20. Pretense: Pretending; make believe

9. Agenda
Objective: Primary: I can analyze how particular elements of a story interact (RL.1.3). Secondary: I can cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text (RL.1.1). I can determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text (RL.1.2). Essential Question: How does the setting of The Maze Runner impact the main character’s mood in chapter one through nine? Warm-Up: Context Clues: pretense Vocabulary: pretense (LINCS Strategy) Whole Group: Review Stations- Adding Elaboration to Higher Order Thinking Question Answer Stations: 1. Achieve: Achieve 3000 (Pay Up!, Remember When?, Is Collecting DNA Okay? Chips: Bad for Americans?, ) 2. The Maze Runner, Chapter 9, Book-Mind-Heart, HOTQ 3. Independent reading (fill out a “book” for books you have finished reading) 4. Teacher-led: Differentiated instruction Closing: Vocabulary Review

10. Answering a higher order thinking question:
Do Chuck and Thomas have anything in common? Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your answer.

11. Answering a higher order thinking question:
Do Chuck and Thomas have anything in common? Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your answer. Chuck and Thomas have a couple of things in common. Neither of them can remember more than their first names. Also, they are the two newest boys to come to the Glade.

12. Answering a higher order thinking question:
Do Chuck and Thomas have anything in common? Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your answer. Chuck and Thomas have a couple of things in common. Neither of them can remember more than their first names. Also, they are the two newest boys to come to the Glade. On page 16, the narrator tells us that Thomas noticed that Chuck remembered his first name, but not anything else. He thinks, “They all remembered their names. Why not their parents’ names? Why not a friends’ name?” This shows us that Thomas realizes that nearly all of his memory has been wiped clean. (ELABORATION) Also, on page … (we do)

13. High Order Thinking Question: Why do you think it is necessary for the boys to be so rude to Thomas? Use at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
Topic Sentence:
Evidence #1 (give the page # also):
 Elaboration #1:
Evidence #2 (give the page # also):
 Elaboration #2:

17. Station Groups Pd 5 TL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ivan Paige Jaden Kris Mercedes
Jatavia
Aiden
Jazmine
Jayden P.
Kefrain
Adri
Kayla
Montana
Xavier
Yahsir
Joshua

18. TL (Achieve Questions) 3 (Achieve- Yellow Sheet)
Station Groups Pd 5
TL (Achieve Questions)
1 (BMH- HOTQ/ IR)
2 (BMH- HOTQ/ IR)
3 (Achieve- Yellow Sheet) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Mercedes
Paige
Jaden
Kris
Aiden
Jazmine
Jayden P.
Kefrain
Kayla
Montana
Jatavia
Ivan
Yahsir
Xavier
Joshua
Adri

19. Whole Group Discussion:
Book:
Who is telling the story?
What does the author want you to know?
What did you notice about how the author told this story?

20. Whole Group Discussion:
Mind:
What surprised you?
What connections did you make?
What images were most important to you?
What lines created the surprise or connection?

21. Whole Group Discussion:
Heart:
What did you discover about yourself?
What matters most to you in this text or in your conversation?
What did you take to heart?

22. Higher Order Thinking Question (Chapter 9)
How does the arrival of the girl affect Thomas’s mood? Use at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer. Cite your evidence. Use elaboration sentences to explain your evidence.

23. Primary Conversation Topics from Book-Mind-Heart:
Student-Led Book Talk
Primary Conversation Topics from Book-Mind-Heart:
What does the author want you to know?
What images were most important to you?
Do you think Thomas needs to do something to try to communicate on his own with the girl?
Group Leader
Keep the conversation moving.
Ensure people are letting each other speak.
Ensure the conversation is civil.
A goal is to get everyone to talk.
Hot Seat
Evaluators
Speakers
Speakers
Evaluators

24. Socratic Seminar Norms
Don’t raise hands but use sensitivity to take turns and not interrupt others
Listen carefully
Address one another respectfully (Yes, sir/ma’am. No, sir/ma’am.) Use statements such as, “I understand what Joseph is saying, but…”)
Base any opinions on the text
Address comments to the group (no side conversations)
Be courageous in presenting your own thoughts and reasoning, but be flexible and willing to change your mind in the face of new and compelling evidence
If you are an observer, listen, understand, take notes, evaluate.
Hot Seat: If you are an observer/evaluator and you would like to make a comment, you may move to the “hot seat” to engage in the conversation.

25. Higher Order Thinking Question (Chapters 10 and 11)
Should the Gladers be scared of Thomas? Use at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer. Cite your evidence. Use elaboration sentences to explain your evidence.

26. Primary Conversation Topics from Book-Mind-Heart:
Student-Led Book Talk
Primary Conversation Topics from Book-Mind-Heart:
What does the author want you to know?
What images were most important to you?
Should the Gladers be scared of Thomas?
Group Leader
Keep the conversation moving.
Ensure people are letting each other speak.
Ensure the conversation is civil.
A goal is to get everyone to talk.
Hot Seat
Evaluators
Speakers
Speakers
Evaluators

27. Closing
Use context clues and your knowledge of the meaning of the bold word in the sentence below to answer the question following it:
War Monger was ominous. He stood on the rim of the building, swinging the chain back and forth with a horrible grin on his face.
What does the word “ominous” mean?
creative
threatening
depressing
thinking