1. Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet from the tan bin.
Place any late homework on your desk.
Read the following sentences:
In a shaky inner tube, Enrique nervously floated on the murky green water. Then he slipped cautiously into the cold river.
What words or phrases in the sentences might be context clues that help you determine the meaning of “murky”?
What do you think the word “murky” means?

2. Copy the following term and its definition on your paper.
Term: murky
Definition: dark and gloomy

3. Term:
 Murky
Story:
Picture
Definition
Dark and gloomy.
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: Murky (context clues) Vocabulary: Murky (LINCS strategy) Whole Group: Review Stations (Early Release Day) Stations: 1. On the Record- BMH (Chapter 5) 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, Newsman Ed Bradley Dies) 4. 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
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
16. Meager: Lacking in amount or condition. Or, Lacking in quantity or quality.
17. Agonizing: Causing great mental pain.
18. Murky: Dark and gloomy.

6. Homework

7. Homework

8. Homework

9. 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, Newsman Ed Bradley Dies
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

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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.

14. Higher Order Thinking Questions (Chapter 5)
1. Who is most to blame for Enrique’s life? Use evidence from the text in your answer? 2. Should Enrique go back to Maria or stay in America? Give reasons for your answer.

15. Closing
What do “desert” and “harbor” have in common?