Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin. Place any late homework on your desk. Read the following sentences: Nazario hated to watch children in danger- and always wondered whether she should intervene. As a journalist, Nazario felt her role was to observe. She didn’t want to influence the story she was reporting. What words or phrases in the sentence might be context clues that help you determine the meaning of “intervene”? What do you think the word “intervene” means?
Copy the following term and its definition on your paper. Term: Intervene Definition: To get in the middle of; to come between two things
To get in the middle of; to come between two things Term: Intervene Story: Picture To get in the middle of; to come between two things Reminding Word:
Agenda Objective: To determine the central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. Essential Question: Gr. 7: How does the author of “A Dream for Many” convey the central idea? Warm-Up: Intervene (context clues) Vocabulary: Intervene (LINCS strategy) Whole Group: Class discussion: Chapter 3 Stations: 1. On the Record- BMH (Chapter 4) 2. Independent reading (fill out a “book” for books you have finished reading) 3. Technology: Achieve 3000 (College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College; Not the News; News at Your Fingertips 4. Teacher-led: Monitoring Station Work, answering questions and concerns; DAR test Closing: Vocabulary Review
Obtain: to get something (to come in to possession of something) Ultimate: the final or best Intense: exciting and scary Corrupt: bad; not doing the right thing Destination: a place one is going to Migrant: Someone who goes to one country to live from another country Panting: Breathing very heavily Refugee: Someone who leaves one country for another in order to be safe. Persecute: to treat someone terribly (especially because of religion, race, gender, etc.) 10. Desert: to leave someone and not go back to them 11. Poverty: a state of being poor 12. Harbor: to hold someone for safety 13. Limitation: Something that keeps you from doing what you want to do 14. Resolve: to decide to do something; to determine that you will do something 15. Intervene: To get in the middle of; to come between two things
Homework
Homework
Homework
Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 3 Book: Who is telling the story? What does the author want you to know? What did you notice about how the author told this story?
Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 3 Mind: What surprised you? What connections did you make? What images were most important to you? What lines created the surprise or connection?
Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 3 Heart: What did you discover about yourself? What matters most to you in this text or in your conversation? What did you take to heart?
Higher Order Thinking Questions (Chapter 3) Why is it so important for Nazario to learn as much as she can about Enrique and his journey? Use evidence to support your answer. Are the boys who keep trying to get to the U.S. bad people? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.
On his own Whole Group F D E A T H Write an important detail or event from chapter 3 involving Enrique and his desire to make it to America even if it meant riding the TRAIN OF DEATH. Start each detail with the five letters making up the word D-E-A-T-H. On his own F I Do: We Do:
Whole Group D E A T H Write an important detail or event from chapter 3 involving Enrique and his desire to make it to America even if it meant riding the TRAIN OF DEATH. Start each detail with the five letters making up the word D-E-A-T-H. Enrique was left on his own when his mother went to the U.S.
2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy Whole Group: Intro to stations: Technology: Achieve 3000 College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College; Not the News; News at Your Fingertips 2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy Reporting Live, Chapter 4 3. Independent reading- find a book Search quietly for a book to read independently here or at home. You may check the book out. Write name on list. Write your name on Post-It note. Place Post-It in book. Place book on shelf or take it with you. 4. Teacher-led: DAR test
Higher Order Thinking Questions (Chapter 4) 1. Do you agree with Nazario’s idea about not intervening when someone on the train was in trouble? Why or why not? 2. If you were a family member of Nazario’s, what would you have told her when she said she wanted to go on the train? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Closing What do “destination” and “migrant” have in common?