Tuesday
December 6, 2011 (12.6.11)
1. Materials
2. Agenda
Minutes
Composition Book
+ Pen or Pencil
+ 1 sheet of paper
Planner
5-7
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Remaining
Activity
Warm Up
Homework
Quiz on Ender’s Game (Ch. 1-6)
Ender’s Game SLM Concept 3
“Talking Chips” Discuss Chapters 5-6
Mini-Project: Character Tree
Ender’s Game
3. Special Announcements
 Please make sure you have out / borrow Ender’s
Game and 1 sheet of paper before the music ends!
Warm Up
December 6, 2011 (12.6.11)
Volume-O-Meter: 0 (No Talking)
Time: 5 Minutes
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Word Parts of the Day: retro — to go back
(as in “retrospect”)
1. Brainstorm at least 5-7 words with the word part of the
day in it. Now, choose one of those words and make a
context clue sentence that helps give away the meaning
of the word.
2. How have you been enjoying Ender’s Game lately—
specifically chapters 5 and 6 when Ender is in school?
Do you find it to be more or less like high school is
now?
Transition
Student
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Homework
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Tuesday
12.6
Assignment
Record
in Student Planner:Rubric
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Complete mini-project (Character
Tree)
BASIC
Due Date
Wednesday
12.7
Quiz #1
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Directions:
 Use Sheet of Paper
 Volume-O: 0 during quiz
 5 minutes to complete the Quiz
 Can use Notebook
 Cannot use Novel
Transition
Ender’s
Game
SLM
SLM
Unit Essential Question:
Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
Key Text(s):
Ender’s Game
Concept 1:
Pre-Reading
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1. Who is Orson Scott Card and
what is Ender’s Game?
Concept 2:
Chapters 1-5
2. What is confusing about
Chapter 1? (and 2 and 3!)
3. What does it feel like to lose
everything you know?
Vocabulary
Orson Scott Card
Vocabulary
The buggers, Mazer Rackham,
“Third,” Col. Graff, “Battle
School”
Concept 3:
Chapters 6-10
Concept 4:
Chapters 11-15
4. How is battle school like /
unlike modern day high
school?
5. How do we solve a problem
with no correct answer?
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Vocabulary
“The Giant’s Drink”
Vocabulary
“Talking Chips”
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Directions:
 Distribute chips in teams
 Turn to Chapters 5-6
 Use chips and discuss your reactions to
Chapters 5-6
Some conversation starters:
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Discuss your response to #2 on the warm up.
How do you think Ender is adapting to Battle
School? Do you think he’ll make it?
Describe a typical day at Battle School…do
you think they are being prepared properly
for war?
What is the Battle Room? How do people
fight in it? (Ch. 6); how does Ender do
compared to the others?
How would you have handled the “Giant’s
Drink” problem?
What was the most surprising / shocking
moment from the reading?
Mini-Project: Character Tree
Directions:
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 Work with Shoulder Partner to
make a character tree of
Ender’s Game so far.
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Include all characters
Include a 1-sentence description
of that character and their
relationship to Ender
 Place in Composition
Notebook and label with sticky
note
 Can be used on Final Exam
 Finish for homework