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Unit 3 Essential Questions: What makes us the same? What makes us different?
= March 1, 2011 =


 * summarize details and main ideas from a nonfiction text.
 * learn new vocabulary.
 * increase reading comprehension.

=include component="page" page="table_col2_blue_2nd_col" = =**Homework:**=
 * Finish your Summary Charts for Article 2 (checking tomorrow).

=Reminders:= include component="page" page="table_bot"
 * Checking homework today:
 * Go to the Night Library for extra help!

=__Agenda__=

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1. Students enter the room and copy the learning objectives and homework. This should only take about 2 or 3 minutes. After students have copied the work, read/explain the learning objectives to students.

2. Complete the "Using the How to Summarize a Paragraph Strategy on Article 2" work from Friday and Monday.
 * On Friday, students began to use the reading strategy on page 191 of the Edge Textbook (Red Text) to summarize Article 2 from the Persuasive Unit packet. __Students have these materials__.
 * In Article 2, there are 17 paragraphs and we have "chunked" those paragraphs into 10 sections. Students will create a Summary Chart for each section. The paragraphs are chunked as follows: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 4-8, 9, 10-11, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 17 (for a total of 10 sections, 10 Summary Charts).
 * On Friday, we finished 1-2 and 3-4 in class.
 * On Monday, hopefully the students completed through section 7, or paragraph 12.
 * Today, have students work in small groups of 3 to 4 to finish the remainder of this task.
 * Tell students they will have 20 minutes to complete the final 3 sections.
 * If some students finish early or if they already finished this task, feel free to ask those students to help the students who are still working on this task.
 * Do not allow students to "save this for homework". Tell them to use the class time to do this work.
 * After 20-25 minutes of this activity (or earlier if yesterday was very productive) move on to the next activity.
 * ** Remind students I will be checking their Summary Charts tomorrow. **

3. Review Idea Webs
 * For each vocabulary word on page 190, have students help you create an Idea Web (see instructions on page 190) for each vocabulary word.
 * Write your idea webs on the white board or on paper using the ELMO document camera.
 * Students needed to create 3 idea webs, so it is possible that there are some words that no students attempted an idea web for. For these words, have students help you create the webs.
 * While doing this activity, continuously ask students about the words to ensure comprehension:
 * How do you say this word in Arabic? Spanish? Tagaolog? Farsi? Chaldean?
 * How do you use this word in a sentence?
 * How many syllables (may need to remind them what a syllable is) are in this word?
 * This activity should take 10-15 minutes.

4. Review Scan for Vocabulary "Behind The Veil" pages 192-197
 * Last week, students had to scan this story for vocabulary. We haven't read it yet.
 * For scan for vocabulary, students look through the selection for words they don't know and then students translate the words.
 * Just to spot-check their scan for vocabulary (before they start reading below) ask students to tell you how to say these words in different languages (then ask other students if the translations are correct):
 * veil
 * behind
 * program
 * government
 * remember
 * myself
 * Muslim
 * afraid
 * join
 * rarely
 * conversation
 * memorable
 * remember
 * Islam
 * nonviolent
 * tear (as in crying)

5. Reading "Behind The Veil" pages 192-197
 * After reviewing the scan for vocabulary, have students keep their scanned vocabulary out.
 * Students will read the story in groups of 3 to 4 out loud--taking turns reading. If time permits, have students read the story twice.
 * As students read out loud, they will be able to use the scanned vocabulary words to increase their understanding of the story.


 * If students finish early, tell them to create a summary chart for each page of "Behind the Veil". **

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