1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin.
Read the following sentences.
Then, answer the questions below.
The issue of writing about the Holocaust is, of course, a contentious matter, and any novelist who explores it had better be sure about his or her intentions before setting out.
What words or phrases in the sentences might be context clues that help you determine the meaning of the underlined word.
What do you think the underlined word means?

2. The issue of writing about the Holocaust is, of course, a contentious matter, and any novelist who explores it had better be sure about his or her intentions before setting out.
1. Based on the context clues, the word “contentious” must mean?:
Something that makes you better than someone else.
Something you do that makes you feel guilty.
Something that is believable.
Something that can cause an argument.

3. The issue of writing about the Holocaust Any novelist who explores it
The issue of writing about the Holocaust is, of course, a contentious matter, and any novelist who explores it had better be sure about his or her intentions before setting out.
2. Which phrase serves as the strongest context clue for “contentious?”
The issue of writing about the Holocaust
Any novelist who explores it
Had better be sure about his or her intentions
Before setting out
1. Based on the context clues, the word “contentious” must mean?:
Something that makes you better than someone else.
Something you do that makes you feel guilty.
Something that is believable.
Something that can cause an argument.

4. Something that can cause an argument
Term:
Contentious
Story:
Picture
Definition:
Something that can cause an argument
Reminding Word:   

5. Agenda
Objective:
Primary: I can analyze how a particular sentence or chapter fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot (RL.2.5).
I can analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept (RI.2.5).
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. (RI.1.1).
I can determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments (RI.1.2).
Essential Question:
What is on the “other side” of your “fence?”
Warm-Up: Context Clues (contentious)
Vocabulary: contentious (LINCS strategy)
Whole Group:
Discuss the scene in which Pavel picks up Bruno. Why is it shot that way?
Discuss answers to questions so far.
Watch the movie: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Students answer the questions provided on the viewing sheets.
Continue ABC Booklets and finishing assigned Achieve articles.
Stations:
1. Technology: Achieve 3000 (Castro Steps Down; Heroes in Sports, Heroes in Life; Civil War and Reconstruction: For Joe Medicine Crow; Young Artist Shows His Work; Web Site Brings Teens Together- 65 Years Later)
2. Book-Mind-Heart: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, chapter 18 (complete if it is not finished)
3. Independent reading (fill out a “book” for books you have finished reading): Among the Hidden
4. Teacher-led: Strategies and mini-lessons based on DAR data
Closing: Vocabulary Review

6. Quarter 1 Words
1. Multiple: many different types
2. Tuition: money used to pay for private school
3. On the verge: almost, on the edge of doing something
4. Expelled: kicked out of
5. Lecture: a speech, a “talking to”
6. Defiant: won’t do something you are supposed to do
7. Detained: Held against your will (arrested)
8. Prestigious: Something that has a great reputation and is well-respected.
9. All-Consuming: when something takes up all of your time and energy
10. Reflect: to think back on something
11. Plague (verb): to annoy or bother
12. Harsh: unpleasant or uncomfortable
13. Gravitate: To move towards something
14. Juvenile: something made for teens or young people
15. Convicted: found guilty of a crime
16. Suburb: An area surrounding the city where lots of people might live.
17. Rural: In the country.
18. Embody: To put in the form of a body.
19. Fate: Something that is going to happen no matter what.

7. Quarter 2 Words:
1. Savor: To enjoy and appreciate.
2. Lofty: Going way up high in the air.
3. Chiseled: Looks like it is cut out of stone.
4. Insisted: demand something forcefully
5. beckoned: Invited
6. Intellectual: a well-educated person
7. Superstition: a belief that is not based on facts and can be based on fear
8. Umpteenth: used to show that there is a very large number of something
9. Careen: To lean or tip over while in motion
10. Idly: In a lazy way
11. Skittish: nervous
12. Stupefied: so shocked that you can’t think properly
13. Fatigue: Tiredness, weakness or exhaustion
14. Potential: Possible; Capable of being or becoming
15. Surveying: Looking over something very carefully
16. Incredulously: Unbelievably
17. Dole: To hand out
18. Pristine: Spotless
19. Sporadically: Happening occasionally (from time to time; now and then)
20. Competent: Being good at things or capable

8. Quarter 3 Words:
Persecution: To treat horribly, especially for racial, political or religious reasons.
Systematic: Planned out (using a system or plan).
Dismissively: Like it doesn’t matter.
Presume: To make a guess based on the facts.
Desolate: Bare and Empty.
Resigned: To give in to. (To accept something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.)
Exasperation: A state of being angered or irritated with someone.
Foreseeable: Soon. So close you can “see” it.
Conviction: A strongly held opinion or belief.
Customary: Usual; normal (what one normally does)
Insistent: Demanding; forceful
Distinctly: Clearly
Inscription: Words written on a plaque or a monument
Obliged: Made to do something (have to do it)
Discarding: Getting rid of; removing
Diversion: A distraction to change what one is thinking about
Appalingly: To do something with disgust
18. Succession: Sequence. The act of something following something else in order.
19. Mischief: Playfulness; the act of getting in trouble
20. Insolently: Rudely
21. Fond: Having a liking for
22. coincide: occurring at the same time

9. Quarter 4 Words:
Enunciate: To say or pronounce clearly
Disdain: Arrogance and dislike
Deliberately: In a careful and unhurried manner; on purpose
Extravagant: Too fancy; like too much money was spent
Preying: to cause a harmful influence; bothering or worrying
Torrent: a downpour
Dismissively: in a way that shows that one doesn’t care
Wringing hands: worried about something
Vital: important
10. Sophistication: A feeling of being fancy and high quality with worldly things
11. Feeling the atmosphere grow heavy: feeling between two people in a situation has become awkward
12. Remotely: Slightly
13. Indirect: Not direct; not straightforward; inferred
14. Despatch (dispatch): the sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose.
15. Presumptuous: Believing that you know what others would do without having any real evidence (kind of like being a “know-it-all)
16. Contentious: Something that can cause an argument

14. 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 surprised you?
Group Leader
Keep the conversation moving.
Ensure people are letting each other speak.
Ensure the conversation is civil.
Encourage all members of the discussion group to participate.
Hot Seat
Evaluators
Speakers
Speakers
Evaluators

15. 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.

16. Closing
What does it mean to be presumptuous?