Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

Greeting at the door
Reminder to set up quickly and efficiently.

Review Homework

Circle -- practice speaking to the group
If you could go back to any point in history when would it be and why?

Reason we are here
We are here to help you make your life better.  Everything we do will help you have a better life, and we will be paying attention to every detail.  You will have a better life if you learn to be organized, be nice and work hard.

Introduce Career Unit
Explain unit.  Give homework: Bring back one "card" on a job (include name of person, job title, job description, training needed to do the job)

Review Vocab
Making flash cards.

Introduce Unit
Thesis: There are a lot of things you need to understand before intervening in Syria
What do we already know about Syria and the Middle East?  Discuss in group for 3 minutes, then share.

Introduce "The Things They Carried"
-What do we know about war?  Discuss in group for 3 minutes, then share.
-This book will help us understand the soldier's experience in war.  We'll be learning to trace the development of a theme in a book and using specific details to show that development.

Procedure
-Pass out book: what do you notice?
-Read 3 pages aloud: what do you notice?
-Buddy read for 15 minutes: what did you notice?
-Read on your own for 20 minutes.  Next class: what did you notice?

Back to Syria Unit
Video

Assigned: 

Vocab, TTC: "The Things They Carried"; Collect a job: Name, title, description, training.
Honors: IOT: to p. 19.

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