2014-2015Unit 1, Week 5

DETERMINATION & PERSEVERANCE

Standard: ELACC6SL5 (Media)E.Q.: How can readers understand literature better

through media presentations?Weekly Writing #3 R.A.F.T . (Write this in the Writ ing sect ion of your

binder)

Role- you are Brian RobesonAudience- your school classmatesFormat- speechTopic- advice on how to face hard times in life. Use at least two quotes from the Steve Jobs speech. Use quotation

marks and cite that these words are his, not yours. Remember to write it as a speech!

9.15.14 WARM UP/OPENING

I will read aloud Hatchet pages 74-79.You read Hatchet pages 79-81.Purpose Question: (Answer in Reading Response

Journal)

What memory does Brian have? Why might this memory be important? Explain.

(Continue to work on your speech)

9.15.14 WORK SESSION

Ticket out the door.

9-15-15CLOSING

E.Q.: How can we use media to help us understand the text? Warm-up: Vocabulary Contribution

Look over Chapters 7-8 Find one word that you think would be a good choice for a vocabulary

word. This may be a word that you do not know or is unfamiliar. Write the word on your ½ notecard. (Your teacher will give this

to you.) Look up the definition for this word. You may use your personal

device (cell phone, tablet, etc…) or a dictionary from the shelf. Also find the part of speech for the word (noun, verb, adjective, adverb…).

On one side, write the word ,definition and part of speech. On the other side write the page number and sentence

containing the work. Take your vocabulary contribution card to the vocabulary

bucket.

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Watch “Castaway” video clip (1:08) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybhVvjsEhE

Watch “Man vs. Wild- Cell Phone Fire Starter” video (1:55) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gZ8FHEUCl8

Read aloud Hatchet chapter 9. (page 82-88)Purpose Questions:

1. Compare and contrast Brian’s method for making fire with one of the methods we watched in the video. How are they similar or different. Which seemed most effective? Explain.

2. Find a quote from the Steve Jobs speech that would be a great motivating quote for Brian after his failed attempts to make fire.

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Standard: ELACC6L4 – Word MeaningE.Q. How does knowledge of vocabulary deepen our

understanding of the text?Warm-up: Copy the following vocabulary words on

your warm-up sheet.1. Abdomen (63) – the part of the body of a mammal

containing the digestive organs: belly. 2. Fierce (68) – menacingly wild, savage, or hostile3. Precious (89) – of high price or great value4. Shelter (66) – something that covers or aff ords

protection5. Skittered (75) – to go, run, glide lightly or rapidly

9.17.14

Read “If” by Rudyard Kipling (next slide)

With your partner, analyze the stanza assigned to you.What is the poet saying in this stanza?How does this stanza fit into our theme of Determination and Perseverance?

Listen to an audio reading of the poem.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drBIhnATwuc

Cloze Passages for study guide. (Handout) Word Bank on slide 9

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“IF” BY RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you       Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too;   If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,     And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;       If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same;   If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,     And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings     And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings     And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew     To serve your turn long after they are gone,   And so hold on when there is nothing in you     Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,       Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,     If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute     With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,       And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

HatchetFireBearLakeHeart attackDivorceDetermined rescued

Steve Jobs SpeechDiscovered InsightsWasteLearned

“If”PersevereTrueObstaclessurvive.

WORD BANK FOR CLOZE PASSAGES

Standard: ELACC6RL9: Compare & ContrastE.Q. how can we determine common ideas in

literature?Warm-up: Complete the graphic organizer for your

vocabulary words. Vocabulary handout: Fill in the following:

Synonym means similar meaning. Antonym means opposite meaning.

9.18.14

The poem “If” was written to accompany a story called “Brother Square Toes” about America’s fi rst president George Washington.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvE9fb--Dig (5:00)How does the poem “If” relate to Washington’s

character and life?Graphic Organizer Study guide. (Handout)

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Standard:E.Q.Warm-up: 1. Turn in all warm-ups from last two weeks.2. Get a GradeCam form off the podium and fi ll in your

lunch number. GradeCam quiz over vocabulary words.

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Division #1 Assessment.

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