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Unit 3 Essential Questions: What makes us the same? What makes us different?
= February 11, 2011 =

Students will:
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 * analyze a prompt.
 * find important details in nonfiction text.
 * finish your main idea chart for "If the World Were a Village"

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 * Checking homework today:
 * Go to the Night Library for extra help!

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1. Unit 3, Cluster 1 Vocabulary
 * Quizlet
 * TPR

2. review 2/10/11 Summary Sentences Article 1
 * review the sentences student wrote yesterday.
 * allow students some time to pair-share their answers.
 * Write 2 questions after reading pertaining to energy crisis (see prompt)/What more do you want to know after reading? (with a partner)

3. 2/9/11 Marking the Prompt for "If the World Were a Village"
 * Finish this work from yesterday and Wednesday:
 * Show students how to Mark the Prompt using Literacy TA
 * Lead students through marking this prompt and help them answer
 * THINK-PAIR-SHARE: How will knowing this prompt change how you read the text?
 * Read the text again. Help students develop the most complicated/information-heavy section of their prompt analysis: Question 1. They can add more notes to this section as/after reading.
 * Students can respond in any language.

4. 2/10/11 Main Idea Chart "If the World Were a Village"
 * Review the prompt.
 * Students read in groups and create a main idea chart (see the reading strategy page).
 * Groups share their main ideas.
 * Students share ideas for how their main idea chart can help them respond to the prompt (TPS).
 * Ask students to anticipate: Now that we have read the article and you know the prompt, what will we do tomorrow?

5. (may be pushed to Monday) 2/11/11 Tell the Main Ideas of "If the World Were a Village"
 * Link to transparency. (page 2 of this document)

We need to create a template for the paragraph to respond to the "If the World Were a Village" prompt. We need to create a prompt for the article from the persuasive packet. (for use early next week).

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