1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin.
Place any late homework you owe me on your desk.
Read the following sentences:
Instead, Nazario searched for someone who had already made the trip. She called churches and shelters that harbored lost boys. But she knew her limitations. She knew she couldn’t travel that distance to find him.
Choose either of the two underlined words above. (Choose one that you know the least about or maybe don’t know the definition of.)
What words or phrases in the sentence might be context clues that help you determine the meaning of “harbored” or “limitations”?
What do you think the word “harbored” or “limitations” means?

2. Copy the following term and its definition on your paper.
Term: Harbor
Definition: to hold someone
for safety
Term: Limitation
Definition: something that keeps you from doing what you want to do

3. something that keeps you from doing what you want to do
Term:
 Harbor
Story:
Picture
to hold someone
for safety
Reminding Word:
Term:
 Limitation
Story:
Picture
something that keeps you from doing what you want to do
Reminding Word:

4. 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: Harbor or Limitation (context clues) Vocabulary: Harbor or Limitation (LINCS strategy) Whole Group: Class discussion about chapter two- Book-Mind-Heart Stations: 1. On the Record- BMH (Chapter 3) 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) 3. Teacher-led: Monitoring Station Work, answering questions and concerns; DAR test Closing: Vocabulary Review

5. 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

6. Homework

9. Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 2

10. Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 2
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?

11. Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 2
Mind:
What surprised you?
What connections did you make?
What images were most important to you?
What lines created the surprise or connection?

12. Whole Group Discussion: Chapter 2
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?

13. Higher Order Thinking Questions: Chapter 2
What events led to Nazario wanting to be a reporter?
What effect did Carmen’s story have on Nazario?
Was Carmen’s decision to leave her children in Guatemala a good one or a bad one? Explain and support your answer with evidence from the text.

14. College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College
Whole Group:
Intro to stations:
Technology: Achieve 3000
College, Here We Come; Chicago School Sends Everyone to College
2. On the Record- Book- Mind- Heart Strategy
Reporting Live, Chapter 3
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

19. 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 he keep trying to get to the U.S. bad people? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.

20. Closing
What do “obtain” and “limitation” have in common? How are they different? Obtain: to get something (to come in to possession of something) Limitation: Something that keeps you from doing what you want to do