Reading 3

IECP

Spring 2013

Nikki Mattson

Random Pair Assignment

Partners

Agenda

• Idiom

• VP 10 check

• Vocabulary review game

• 5A text

swallow it hook, line, and sinker

• Be completely and probably foolishly persuaded

Practice

• What other idiom (that we learned in class) expresses this idea?

• What is something that you swallowed hook, line, and sinker recently?

• I told my friend___, and he swallowed it hook, line, and sinker and said___.

Vocabulary Power – Ch. 10

• Pronounce and discuss • Check answers with a partner

– Compare answers– If there is disagreement, try to reach consensus– Let Nikki know if you have questions– Complete “Words in Discussion”

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- Quiz your partner on the words in preparation for the quiz next class

– Practice spelling the words

Vocabulary review game

Unit 5 – Human Journey

Warm up

• What do you think this chapter will be about?

• What does this picture represent?

• Why do you think this picture was chosen for this chapter?

Pre reading –pg. 73

• Discuss the warm-up questions with your partner.

• *remote = far from towns or other places where people live (isolated)

The DNA Trail –pg. 74

• Complete Part A on pg. 74 in pairs.

• Share answers as a whole class.

Video

A. View video B. Write down something that was :

1. new information 2. surprising 3. unclear

C. Write 2 discussion questions about the video to be shared with your group.

A. Share your opinions and discussion questions with a group of about 4 students.

B. Whole-class Discussion 1. What new information did you hear? 2. What surprising information did you

hear? 3. Was anything unclear?

In pairs, say one sentence (each partner) about each slide. Use the vocabulary word in each sentence.

Examples:Portable1. This house is portable because it can be moved from one

place to another.2. It is nice to have a portable house if you are planning to

move around a lot.3. Some people think that portable houses are not wise

purchases because they may not be as stable as permanent houses.

It ends about 200,000 years later with their six and a half billion descendants spread across the earth, living in peace or at war, their faces lit by campfires and computer screens.

In between is an exciting tale of survival, movement, isolation, and conquest, most of it occurring before recorded history.

For decades the only proof was found in a small number of scattered bones and artifacts our ancestors left behind on their journeys.

For decades the only proof was found in a small number of scattered bones and artifacts our ancestors left behind on their journeys.

In the past 20 years, however, increasingly refined DNA technologies have allowed scientists to find a record of ancient human migrations in the DNA of loving people.

But while the bulk of our DNA is the same, what’s left is responsible for our individual differences—in eye color or disease risk, for example.

Although archeological evidence of this 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) migration from Africa to Australia has almost completely vanished, genetic traces of the group that made the trip do exist.

Modern discoveries of 45,000-year-old bodies in Australia, buried at a site called Lake Mungo, provide some physical evidence for the theories as well.

Once across, they followed the immense herds of animals into the mainland and spread to the tip of South America in as little as a thousand years.

Once across, they followed the immense herds of animals into the mainland and spread to the tip of South America in as little as a thousand years.

Reading 3A – finish tests first

Divide into As and Bs

Step 1

As read lines 1-74 (take notes and prepare to summarize)

Bs read lines 75-end (take notes and prepare to summarize)

When you compete for the best summary on Wednesday, you will be allowed to use your notes, but NOT your books. (Take good notes).

Step 22 As get together and summarize important information (compare notes)2 Bs get together and summarize important information (compare notes)

Step 3Get handout2 As and 2Bs get together and share information(If the other group doesn’t answer the questions on the handout in their summary, be sure to ask them.)

Finish your note-taking handout and be prepared to orally summarize your portion of the 5A text

VP 10 Quiz on Wednesday