Week+9+Oct+15+-+19,+2012

= __ Fall Festival this Friday! __ = =**__ Nov __****__ el Study: Slam! __** = __** By **** : W **** alt **** er Dean Myers **__ When Derek and Moms go to the hospital to visit grandma, Mtisha comes to visit. She has found out about Ice and Greg going out with Bianca and Kickey the night before. She confronts him about it. He has to run after her to apologize. Greg begins to work on his videotaping project. He tapes various spots in his neighborhood. While he is walking around taping, he is thinking about Mtisha. He Mtisha when he goes home but her mother won't let him talk to her. She calls him a low life form for his behavior with Kickey. In chapter eight, Greg spends his weekend working on his video project and playing ball at the YMCA. One of the men there played in Italy and tells Greg that a player has to......

__ Essential Question: __ What do you need to be successful? Write full, complete sentences.

__ Instructional Focus: __ Vocabulary (Foreign Origins); Multiple Meaning Words

Students will be able to: 1) use new vocabulary that is introduced and taught 2) use context clues to determine word meaning 3) determine the meanings of words with multiple meaning using context 4) Evaluate propaganda and persuasive techniques in text

__ Quote of the Week __ : ** "It takes a whole village to raise a child.” African Proverb **
 * __ Word of the Week: __** t ête-à-tête (noun): A private conversation between two persons.

__ Unit 5 Vocabulary __
 * **Word ** || **Meaning ** ||
 * * **prima donna ** || temperamental entertainer ||
 * * **per se ** || in itself ||
 * * **per capita ** || per person ||
 * * **par excellence ** || the best at something ||
 * * **lingua franca ** || common language ||
 * * **klutz ** || a clumsy person ||
 * * **joie de vivre ** || joy in living ||
 * * **<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">g ****<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">uerrilla ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">a member of an irregular army operating in a territory under the control of a hostile force ||
 * * **<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">fiasco ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">total failure ||
 * * **<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">faux pas ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">social blunder ||
 * * **<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Persona non grata ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">unacceptable or unwelcome person ||
 * * ** je ne sais quoi ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">I know not what; an elusive quality ||
 * * ** pro bono ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">done or donated without charge; free ||
 * * ** enfant terrible ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">an incorrigible child; an outrageously outspoken or bold person ||
 * * ** dolce vita ** || <span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence ||

__ Warm Up: __ Vocabulary Practice pg. 13 (1 - 5)
 * __ Monday October 15, 2012 __**

__ Agenda __ __ Homework: __
 * Warm Up
 * Copy Vocabulary Unit 5 words
 * Type final draft of Olympic research project
 * Use easybib.com to create bibliography, discuss annotated bibliography
 * Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 1
 * Determine the foreign language from which our vocabulary words and phrases each come. Use a dictionary to help you.
 * Work on Florida Achieves

__ Warm Up: __ Reading Practice pg. 13 (6 - 10)
 * __ Tuesday October 16, 2012 __**

__ Agenda __ __ Homework: __
 * Warm Up
 * Read Chapters 8/9 Slam and respond to discussion questions
 * Type research paper into a word document for submission to turnitin.com
 * Propaganda and Persuasive Practice
 * Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 2
 * Work on Florida Achieves

__ Warm Up: __ Vocabulary Practice __ Homework: __
 * __ Wednesday October 17, 2012 __**
 * Warm Up
 * Read Slam! Chapters 9/10 and respond to discussion question:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Berkeley-Medium','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Slam is largely responsible for his team winning the game against St. Peter’s, yet on the way home Slam writes, “I should have been up but I was really down.” (Pg. 117) Why do you think Slam feels this way?
 * Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 3
 * Write sentences with this week's words and phrases
 * Work on Florida Achieves

__ Warm Up: __ Vocabulary Practice __ Agenda __ __ Homework __
 * __ Thursday October 18, 2012 __**
 * Warm Up
 * Slam! Activity (Mid-Book)
 * Propaganda and Persuasive Collage – Group Activity
 * Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 4
 * Study For Vocabulary Test Unit 5 tomorrow

__ Homework __
 * __ Friday October 19, 2012 __**
 * __ Warm Up: __**** Vocabulary Practice **
 * __ Agenda __**
 * Vocabulary Unit 5 Test
 * Spelling Unit 5 Test
 * Propaganda and Persuasive Techniques Test

Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 5