10-16-2009

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= __Essential Question__: Who Am I? =

Students will learn:

 * ===key vocabulary.===
 * ===how to visualize.===
 * ===**to speak using academic sentence starters.**===

**Homework:**

 * Finish your word maps for: element, pattern, poetry.

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Reminders:
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 * ** TEST WEDNESDAY! **
 * **Unit 1, Cluster 2**
 * **Vocabulary (page 32)**
 * **"Growing Together" pages 34-41**
 * **"My People" pages 42-44**
 * Extra credit for students whose parents go to PIQE classes!
 * Checking homework today:
 * Mr. Devine will be in the Night Library every Wednesday from 3:00 to 4:30.

**__Agenda__**

 * 1. Vocabulary Practice**
 * Respond to the questions using complete sentences and key vocabulary.

2. Analyze "Growing Together"
 * page 41
 * Respond to questions 1-3.
 * 1
 * Answer in complete sentences.
 * 2
 * Carmita means she... (finish the sentence)
 * 3
 * Use details to draw what Carmita says about the weather

3. Vizualize -- Academic Talk
 * [[file:Unit 1 Reading and Writing Trans.pdf]]
 * See Transparency 4

4. Academic Vocabulary (from page 42)
 * element
 * pattern
 * poetry
 * Create a word map for each word:

Before creating a word map, introduce the examples:**