1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin.
Place your homework on your desk.
Read the following sentences:
Nazario’s most agonizing encounters had little to do with her own safety. She hated to watch children in danger- and always wondered whether she should intervene.
What words or phrases in the sentence might be context clues that help you determine the meaning of “agonizing”?
What do you think the word “agonizing” means?

2. Copy the following term and its definition on your paper.
Term: Agonizing
Definition: Causing great mental pain

3. Causing great mental. Definition Term: Agonizing Story: Picture
 Agonizing
Story:
Picture
Definition
Causing great mental.
Reminding Word:

4. Agenda
Objective: To determine the central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. Essential Question: Gr. 7: How does the author of “A Dream for Many” convey the central idea? Warm-Up: Agonizing (context clues) Vocabulary: Agonizing (LINCS strategy) Whole Group: Review Stations (Early Release Day) Stations: 1. On the Record- BMH (Chapter 4) 2. Independent reading (fill out a “book” for books you have finished reading) 3. Technology: Achieve 3000 (College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College; Not the News; News at Your Fingertips 4. Teacher-led: Monitoring Station Work, answering questions and concerns; DAR test Closing: Vocabulary Review

5. 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.

6. Homework

7. 2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy
Whole Group:
Intro to stations:
Technology: Achieve 3000
College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College; Not the News; News at Your Fingertips
2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy
Reporting Live, Chapter 4
3. Independent reading- find a book
Search quietly for a book to read independently here or at home. You may check the book out. Write name on list. Write your name on Post-It note. Place Post-It in book. Place book on shelf or take it with you.
4. Teacher-led: DAR test

8. Higher Order Thinking Questions (Chapter 4)
1. Do you agree with Nazario’s idea about not intervening when someone on the train was in trouble? Why or why not? 2. If you were a family member of Nazario’s, what would you have told her when she said she wanted to go on the train? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

9. Closing
What do “desert” and “harbor” have in common?