Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Learning Objectives:

I can...

• Understand the influence of mythology
• Use word roots as a vocabulary strategy
• Apply words in a new context

Opening:

1. Presentation of mythological gods and goddesses

2. What else do we get from the Greeks besides their gods, goddesses and heroes?

3. Examine page 59's graphic organizer.

• Connection to I-Station Vocabulary
• A word root carries a basic meaning
• Word roots often appear in more than one word
• If you know the basic meaning of a root, you can know the meaning of unfamiliar words.

4. Brainstorm with me...

• alt-
• -vert-
• grad-

5. Practice with grad- in the dictionary...

• how many words have grad- as a root?  
• does the dictionary tell us the meaning anywhere?

Work Period:

5. Using your background knowledge and the dictionaries complete the graphic organizer on page 59.

6. Review

7.  Examine the Writing Prompt on page 59.

• Reread the ending of "Daedalus and Icarus"

8. Write a dialogue between Daedalus and Icarus (as if Icarus hadn't plummeted to his watery death!)

• Remember: 
• Start a new paragraph each time the speaker changes. 
• Use dialogue tags, not colons
• Punctuate properly
• Capitalize when a new speaker begins talking

Closing:

9. Check progress...share aloud beginnings