DETERMINATION &
PERSEVERANCE
2014-2015
Unit 1 , Week 5
9.15.14
WARM UP/OPENING
 Standard: ELACC6SL5 (Media)
 E.Q.: How can readers understand literature better through
media presentations?
 Weekly Writing #3 R.A .F.T . ( Wr i te t h i s i n t h e Wr i t i n g s e c t i o n o f yo u r b i n d e r )
Role- you are Brian Robeson
Audience- your school classmates
Format- speech
Topic- advice on how to face hard times in life.
 Use at least two quotes from the Steve Jobs speech. Use quotation marks
and cite that these words are his, not yours.
 Remember to write it as a speech!
9.15.14
WORK SESSION
I will read aloud Hatchet pages 74-79.
You read Hatchet pages 79-81.
Purpose Question: ( Answer in Reading Response Journal)
 What memory does Brian have? Why might this
memory be important? Explain.
 (Continue to work on your speech)
9-15-15
CLOSING
 Ticket out the door.
9.16.14
 E.Q.: How can we use media to help us understand the text?
 Warm-up: Vocabular y Contribution
 Look over Chapters 7-8
 Find one word that you think would be a good choice for a vocabulary
word. This may be a word that you do not know or is unfamiliar.
 Write the word on your ½ notecard. (Your teacher will give this to
you.)
 Look up the definition for this word. You may use your personal device
(cell phone, tablet, etc…) or a dictionary from the shelf. Also find the part
of speech for the word (noun, verb, adjective, adverb…).
 On one side, write the word ,definition and part of speech.
 On the other side write the page number and sentence containing
the work.
 Take your vocabulary contribution card to the vocabulary bucket.
9.16.14
 Watch “Castaway” video clip (1:08)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybhVvjsEhE
 Watch “Man vs. Wild- Cell Phone Fire Starter” video (1:55)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gZ8FHEUCl8
 Read aloud Hatchet chapter 9. (page 82-88)
 Purpose Questions:
1. Compare and contrast Brian’s method for making
fire with one of the methods we watched in the
video. How are they similar or different. Which
seemed most effective? Explain.
2. Find a quote from the Steve Jobs speech that would
be a great motivating quote for Brian after his failed
attempts to make fire.
9.17.14
 Standard: ELACC6L4 – Word Meaning
 E.Q. How does knowledge of vocabulary deepen our
understanding of the text?
 Warm-up: Copy the following vocabulary words on your warm up sheet.
1. Abdomen (63) – the part of the body of a mammal
containing the digestive organs: belly.
2. Fierce (68) – menacingly wild, savage, or hostile
3. Precious (89) – of high price or great value
4. Shelter (66) – something that covers or af fords protection
5. Skittered (75) – to go, run, glide lightly or rapidly
9.17.14
Read “If” by Rudyard Kipling (next slide)
With your partner, analyze the stanza
assigned to you.
 What is the poet saying in this stanza?
 How does this stanza fit into our theme of
Determination and Perseverance?
 Listen to an audio reading of the poem.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drBIhnATwuc
Cloze Passages for study guide. (Handout)
 Word Bank on slide 9
“IF” BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can dream—and not make dreams your
master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your
aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common
touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
WORD BANK FOR CLOZE PASSAGES
Hatchet
 Fire
 Bear
 Lake
 Heart attack
 Divorce
 Determined
 rescued
Steve Jobs Speech
 Discovered
 Insights
 Waste
 Learned
“If”
 Persevere
 True
 Obstacles
 survive.
9.18.14
 Standard: ELACC6RL9: Compare & Contrast
 E.Q. how can we determine common ideas in literature?
 Warm-up: Complete the graphic organizer for your vocabulary
words.
 Vocabulary handout: Fill in the following:
 Synonym means similar meaning.
 Antonym means opposite meaning.
9.18.14
 The poem “If” was written to accompany a story called
“Brother Square Toes” about America’s first president George
Washington.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvE9fb --Dig (5:00)
 How does the poem “If” relate to Washington’s character and
life?
 Graphic Organizer Study guide. (Handout)
9.18.14
9.19.14
 Standard:
 E.Q.
 Warm-up:
1. Turn in all warm-ups from last two weeks.
2. Get a GradeCam form of f the podium and fill in your lunch
number.
 GradeCam quiz over vocabulary words.
9.19.14
 Division #1 Assessment.