3-8-2010

Previous Next = March 8, 2010 = = __Essential Question__: What Makes Us the Same? What Makes Us Different? =

Students will:

 * === learn to organize ideas on a main idea chart. ===
 * === learn comparative and superlative adjective forms. ===

Gross is in the computer lab. Perhaps I will cancel. ||~ Homework Due Tomorrow || For example: sport > sporty
 * ~ Homework Due Today
 * Interactive Practice Book page 102 || Make our vocabulary words into adjectives
 * Show their comparative and superlative forms
 * sportier
 * sportiest ||

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__Agenda__
1. DEAR
 * == Problem Sentence == || == Solution Sentence == ||
 * == 1. the teacher is the most smart person in town ==

5. That car is fastest.
|| == == || 2. Vocabulary Practice
 * [|Practice the Unit 3, Cluster 1 Vocabulary]

3. Continue Reading Article B
 * Review the Main Idea Chart we have been creating. (students have these in their notebooks)
 * What are the topics/main ideas of sections A, B, and C?
 * Write them as students give them--to create a master Main Idea Chart.
 * Continue with section D. (students have the article broken up into sections)
 * Read/explain the section.
 * Underline important details on the overhead projector (after asking for students to help identify the important ideas).
 * Ask students to identify the topic of the section.
 * Give students a sentence frame/template that they can use to write the main idea.
 * Also, try to complete section E (I believe section D is only one paragraph long).

For later this week:
 * Read "The Simple Sport" out of the IPB
 * There is a test in ELD on Friday (Unit 3, Cluster 2).
 * Perhaps another, short Mark the Text assessment

To use at the end of Unit 3 as a review: [|30 Questions Unit 3 Wrap Up Game.pdf]
 * Make copies, one copy for each class.
 * Compete in groups using the ELMO.