1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet.
Write your name and today’s date on the top of the sheet.
Copy the following two words. Circle their vowel sounds and follow the rules for chunking words to slash the words in to their parts.
E X T E R M I N A T E
T E N T A T I V E L Y

2. Exterminate means “to get rid of by destroying.”
Tentatively means “not definite or positive.”
Which one of your vocabulary words has the most in common with either “exterminate” or “tentatively?” Explain.
Vocabulary 6:
Contiguous, Sanction, Intervene, Witness, Influence, Inquisitive, Intrepid, and Persistent

3. Exterminate means “to get rid of by destroying.”
Tentatively means “not definite or positive.”
Which one of your vocabulary words has the most in common with either “exterminate” or “tentatively?” Explain.
Vocabulary 7:
introspective, perceptive, eloquent, intentions, heritage, discrimination, refuge, memoir

4. Exterminate means “to get rid of by destroying.”
Tentatively means “not definite or positive.”
Which one of your vocabulary words has the most in common with either “exterminate” or “tentatively?” Explain.
Vocabulary 8:
resilient, resolute, resourceful, defiant, triumph, tactic, prestigious, alien

5. Remember…
HOMEWORK!

6. Agenda
Objective: Students will understand how to make connection and summaries as a habit to increase their comprehension. Essential Question: What do good connections and summaries include? Warm-Up: Vocabulary and Word Parts Mini-Lesson: Making Connections and answering the M/C question Work Period: Captain America: Vocabulary Activity Hulk: Achieve 3000, questioning Black Widow: On the Record, summarizing and connecting Closing: Vocabulary word review

7. Captain America:
Vocabulary Activity

10. HULK:
Achieve 3000

11. Achieve 3000 Read the article.
Write strong wondering questions each time you see a Q.
Can’t be “YES” or “NO” question
Can’t have just a one word answer
Must make the reader “THINK!”
Answer the multiple choice questions, finding the evidence for your answers.
Answer the Thought Question.

12. Summarizing and Connecting
Black Widow:
Summarizing and Connecting

13. Chapter 2
Write at least
3 summaries and
3 connections.

14. Connector When Making Connection: Tell how the story is like real life
Connect what was read to something that might happen or has happened in real life
Text to self
Text to text
Text to world
Keep in mind:
Even though a story may be fiction or a fairy tale, there are certain aspects of the story that are like real life. Many things in the story might happen or have happened in real life. For this reason, the reader can identify with many of the things that take place in the story. (For instance: Sometimes people are held captive just as the witch held Rapunzel Captive.)

15. Connector Some Connection stems to get you started…
-This reminds me of…
-This part is like…
-This character ____ is like ____ because…
-This is similar to … because…
-The differences between this part ___ and this part ____ are…
-I also (name something in the text that happened to you)
-This character makes me think of…

16. Summarizer When Summarizing:
-Write a SHORT explanation of what that section is about.
-Should answer the question: “What was this part about?”
-If you can’t summarize, you MUST reread.
Stems to help you out…
-In this part… happens.
-Because (name a character) did this (name something he did), this (name something that happened).
-At the beginning, this happened. Then, in the middle, this happened. Then, at the end, this happened.
-We are told about _______ here because ________.
-This part is about…

17. You: Make a connection or summary.
I read…
You: Make a connection or summary.

18. You: Make a connection or summary.

19. A. Experiencing bullying probably led her to speak about acceptance.
Standard: LAFS.RI.1.3: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events and ideas in a text.
3. Closely reread paragraphs 4–6 of the article, discussing Katy Perry’s life and career. According to the information presented, how did Perry’s early life affect her message?
A. Experiencing bullying probably led her to speak about acceptance.
B. Her strict upbringing led her to rebel against her parents.
C. Her poor childhood led her to seek wealth.
D. It led her to work harder than her peers, knowing that she had special talent.

20. 3. Closely reread paragraphs 4–6 of the article, discussing Katy Perry’s life and career. According to the information presented, how did Perry’s early life affect her message?
A. Experiencing bullying probably led her to speak about acceptance.
B. Her strict upbringing led her to rebel against her parents.
C. Her poor childhood led her to seek wealth.
D. It led her to work harder than her peers, knowing that she had special talent.

21. Content Questions
Grade 6: Nazario describes her style using the idiom “fly on the wall.” What do you think that phrase means? Why is it important for her to be like a “fly on the wall?” Grade 7: Why do you think Obama’s mother chose Martin Luther King, Jr. and other famous African Americans to teach Obama about his heritage? Grade 8: What kinds of things seem to motivate each of the Wes Moores?