Week+7+October+1+-+5,+2012

Week 7 October 1 – 5, 2012[[image:Slam.jpg align="left"]]
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Novel Study: Slam!

==== Greg "Slam" Harris is a seventeen-year-old who thinks he is all that on the court -- and he's not that far off. He can play point guard and slam dunk the ball, making him a tough combination for a defender to handle. The problem is that this year Slam is at a new school, and here his new coach and teammates don't give him the respect he thinks he deserves, and his teachers just won't get off his back about his grades. ====

__Word of the Week:__ fluctuate: rise and fall; ebb and flow
//Oil prices __fluctuate__ depending on conditions in the Middle East.//

__ Unit 3 __

 * 1) ==== insidious - stealthily treacherous or deceitful ====
 * 2) ==== intimation - making known indirectly; a hint; suggestion ====
 * 3) ==== opulent - wealthy, rich, or affluent ====
 * 4) ==== pliable – easily bent; flexible; supple; easily influenced or persuaded; yielding ====
 * 5) ==== reiterate - to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively. ====
 * 6) ==== stolid - not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive. ====
 * 7) ==== tentative - unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant ====
 * 8) ==== unkempt - uncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messy; not combed ====
 * 9) ==== verbatim - in exactly the same words; word for word ====
 * 10) ==== warily - watchfully, cautiously, or on the alert ====

__ Agenda __
> === Click here for Context Clues PowerPoint Presentation ===
 * ==== Warm Up ====
 * ==== Copy Vocabulary Unit 3 words for KIM Chart ====
 * ==== Discuss __How to study Vocabulary__ ====
 * ==== Context Clues PowerPoint Presentation ====

__Homework__:
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 * ==== Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 1 ====
 * ==== Create a KIM Chart for Unit 3 Vocabulary words (Due Friday) ====

__ Agenda __

 * ==== Warm Up ====
 * ==== Avoiding Plagiarism Activity ====
 * ==== Work on Group Research Project ====

__ Homework __
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 * ==== Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 2 ====
 * ==== Work on KIM Chart for Unit 3 Vocabulary words (Due Friday) ====

__Warm Up__ Reading Practice Test 6 (6-10)
__Agenda__
 * ==== Warm Up ====
 * ==== Read Chapter 6 of Slam! and respond to discussion question: ====

__ Homework: __

 * ==== Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 3 ====
 * ==== Work on KIM Chart for Unit 3 Vocabulary words (Due Friday) ====

__ Agenda __

 * ==== Warm Up ====
 * ==== Work on Olympic Research Project ====

__ Homework __
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 * ==== Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 4 ====
 * ==== Study For Vocabulary Test Unit 3 tomorrow ====

Warm Up: Vocabulary Practice 7D (1 – 10)
__Agenda__

Unit 3 Vocabulary Test
Work on Research First Draft

Read for about 30 minutes and complete the activities for Reading Log Day 4
Work on Florida Achieves