1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin.
Place your homework on your desk.
Copy the following words from Sheets 3 and 4. Then, try to define them. How many can you remember?
Summoning:
Potential:
Restriction:
Self-Perception:
Demeanor:
Modesty:
Tolerance:
Invest:
Indescribably:
Optimistic:

2. Vocabulary, Sheets 5 and 6
5A: Posture: The way you hold your body when you stand or sit.
5B: Resolve: To settle or find a solution to something.
5C: Physique: The shape and size of a person’s body.
5D: Institution: A place to care for people with mental conditions.
5E: Sacrifice: The act of giving up one thing to save another.
5F: Isolation: Separation from others.
6A: Meditate: To sit quiet and still in order to think deeply.
6B: Competitive: Having or displaying a strong desire to be more successful than others.
6C: Matter-of-factly: To say something without emotion, naturally, and quietly.
6D: Curriculum: Subjects taught in school.
6E: Resent: To feel anger for someone or something.

3. Vocabulary, Sheets 3 and 4
3A: Summoning: Calling upon someone to do something.
3B: Potential: Showing the ability to become or develop into something in the future.
3C: Restriction: Being limited or controlled.
3D: Self-Perception: The way a person sees him/herself.
3E: Demeanor: Behavior, manner, attitude.
3F: Modesty: The attitude you have when you don’t think you are too great. Not full of pride.
4A: Tolerance: The strength and patience to put up with something that is bad.
4B: Invest: To give your money to a company so they can use it to make more money for you and them.
4C: Indescribably: So strange you can’t explain it.
4D: Optimistic: Having a positive view of what will happen in the future.

4. Sheet One
Aghast: horrified
Stupefied: confused
Goad: to whip or annoy into doing something
In Vain: with no purpose
Spontaneously: suddenly
Navigate: to find the correct path from one spot to another
Sheet Two
Empower: To give power or strength to.
Timid: Being scared or being unsure of yourself.
Philanthropy: A desire to help people, especially through charity.
Advocate: To speak or write in favor of something.
Amend: To make minor changes in something to make it more fair.
Peer: A person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background and social status.

5. (Alternate Lesson due to Level-Set Testing): Friday, 11/30
Vocabulary review warm-up (10)
RATA, chapter 17 of The Skin I’m In (15)
Achieve, enter the answers to “Helping a Classmate Learn” (or, finish the level set test)
Achieve, “Teens Cross America for Peace”
Rewards/ Cash stamps

6. Agenda (Friday, 11/30)
Essential Question: How does the author use the change in characters to develop the theme? Standard: LAFS.7.RL.1.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Objective: Students will examine the manner in which characters change over the course of text to affect the theme. Students will use essential details of a text to come to a conclusion based on a high order thinking question. Warm-Up: Vocabulary Review Whole Group: Prepare for station rotation. Work Period: Socratic Seminar for: Technology: Achieve 3000, fill out yellow sheet and answer Activity Questions (“”)( Independent Work: Grade 7: Read Chapter 17 of The Skin I’m In and complete BMH questions and HOTQ. Independent Reading: Choose a book from the class library. Read quietly. Focus on any new vocabulary you can find. Teacher-Led: See Teacher-Led Group slides.

7. Bruce Banner
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The Skin I’m In 18

9. How does Maleeka’s self-esteem affect the decisions she makes?

10. High Order Thinking Question, Chapter 18
How does Maleeka’s self-esteem affect the decisions she makes? Begin with a complete topic sentence that answers the question. Cite your evidence. Include evidence from the book that supports your topic sentence. Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your answer. Include at least one elaboration/ explanation sentence with each piece of evidence that shows how your evidence supports your topic sentence. Finish with a concluding sentence.

11. Common Lit: The House Dog and the Wolf (510L) RL1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Iron Man
WR: Suffix List and Word List 3 A
Perryman, Jalen C
Summerall, Tyrone F
Bell, Aylah
 Black Widow
Corley, David
Le, Wayne D
Scott, Zachariah
 Thor
SRC: The Frog and the Mouse (Context Clues, Char. Dev., Theme) 650L
Calderon-Hernandez, Gabriela
Sherman, Jarren
Karincic, Amer
 Captain America
SRC: Comm. Lit: The Princess and the Pea (Theme) 720L
Ross, Blaine
Hall, Jacob
Common Lit: The House Dog and the Wolf (510L) RL1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Common Lit: Diary of a Teenage Refugee (670) RI1.1, 1.2, 1.3

12. Thor Captain America Iron Man A Williams, Wileyah B Berrios, Caitlin C
Iron Man
WR: Suffix List and Word List 3 A
Williams, Wileyah B
Berrios, Caitlin C
Jeremiah Perryman D
Sassaman, Eric E
Taylor, Chris
 Black Widow
Wims, Gabrielle
Wright, Xavier
Upshaw, Deziya
Whigham, Isaac
Young, Cori
 Thor
WR: Suffix List and Word List 3
SRC: The Frog and the Mouse (Context Clues, Char. Dev., Theme) 650L A
King, Zakary B
Gagliardo, Julianna C
Sorrell, Abigail D
Small, Lavon E
Vorn, Julianna
 Captain America
SRC: Comm. Lit: The Princess and the Pea (Theme) 720L
Salem, Marianne
Papalia, Julius
Schmidt, Hannah
Scott, Kyler

13. Socratic Seminar 2 Book-Mind-Heart Questions
1 Version of the High Order Thinking Question
Based on the book, is it better to be ignorant and cool or smart and unpopular? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Why does Miss Saunders do what she does for Maleeka?
What is the theme of this chapter? What do the characters do to “make” that the theme?

14. Closing
If you resent giving something up to someone, would you call that a sacrifice? Explain.