12-14-2009

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= __Essential Question__: What Makes Us Wise? =

Students will learn:

 * ===new vocabulary.===
 * ===how to ask questions.===

**Homework:**
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 * Write 10 sentences using vocabulary from your scanned vocabulary.

Reminders:
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 * ** Extra credit for students whose parents go to PIQE classes! **
 * ** Checking homework today: **
 * ** Vocabulary Equations **
 * ** Mr. Devine will be in the Night Library every Wednesday from 3:00 to 4:30. **

__Agenda__
1. Students enter the room and copy the learning objectives and homework (please put these on the board for students) into their notebooks.

2. Vocabulary Practice
 * Have students pick 3 words from the vocabulary on page 130 and write 3 sentences with those words.
 * Students share out responses.
 * Offer teacher-made models for any words not picked.

3. How to Ask Questions
 * page 131
 * Have students copy, in their notebooks, the 4 steps of the strategy.
 * Read, with the students, through page 131, explaining how to use the strategy with the help of the Peer Tutors.

4. Scan for Vocabulary
 * Have students look through "Mathematics" for words they don't know (it could be anything).
 * Write down the words on the whiteboard that they identify and have them also write down the words in their notebooks.
 * Their job is to translate the word into their primary language using the dictionaries at the front of the room.
 * Then, and this is important, after students translate the word into their primary language, ask them (and help them) to identify another word/phrase in English that means the same thing. For example: "big = grande (Spanish) = large (English)"

5. Reading "Mathematics"
 * If time remains, please have students begin to read "Mathematics".
 * First, you read the page, then have a student read the page, and so on.


 * Finally, please remind students of their homework (10 sentences using scanned vocab.)