Advanced Learning Goals One
Essential Questions:
What are the effects of cultural shifts/changes?
How does a person’s point-of-view affect his/her decisions?
Reading Goals:
Choose and use a pre-reading strategy that works best for you.
Identify and use academic vocabulary from articles
Identify main ideas and supporting details.
Writing Goals:
Develop a cause and effect essay using appropriate cause and effect
transitions and 10 out of 21 vocabulary words.
Grammar Goals:
Identify and use compound (fanboys) and complex (aawwuubis) sentences.
Use appropriate parts of speech for increasingly complex vocabulary.
Language Goals:
Use the following words, culture shock, empathy, connotation, perception,
expatriate, cause, and effect.
1.) Vocabulary from the unit: Crossing Cultures
“Culture Shock”
Accept
Adapted
Adjust
Anxiety
Dysfunctional
Estrangement
Euphoria
Excited
Frustration
Happiness
Indecision
Recovery
Resentment
withdrawal
“Expatriates in India”
Booming
Bureaucratic
Fashionable
Glamour
Hassles
Hospitable
Intimidated
Rewarding
Unhurried
“Seeing Through the Rules”
Civilized
Collision
Effusive
Erroneous
Evasive
Generosity
Gratitude
Inferior
Off the mark
Praise
Sadists
scarcity
2.) SAT Vocabulary
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Lesson 1
articulate
crux
debris
decry
eminent
harass
milieu
opportune
refuse
skeptical
successor
sullen
trivial
tinge
unkempt
Lesson 2
belittle
blasé
concoct
decade
diverse
enunciate
hurtle
improvise
jostle
libel
mammoth
paradox
provincial
realm
undermine
Lesson 3
amity
cater
guise
inconsequential
jubilant
placate
preclude
repress
saturate
slake
sortie
succumb
tranquil
venomous
wrest
Advanced Learning Goals One
Essential Questions:
What are the effects of cultural shifts/changes?
How does a person’s point-of-view affect his/her decisions?
Advanced Day 2 Period 2 Calendar
Thursday, 9/6
Introductions, Icebreakers, Journals, syllabus
SAT Unit One. H.W. Due Monday
TOEFL QUIZ
Monday, 9/10
H.W. Due: SAT LIST ONE: Fill in the blank
for vocabulary. SAT Vocabulary practice
choose pre-reading for "Culture Shock"
Creating Meaning: Chapter 5 vocabulary
Read “Culture Shock"
Identify main idea and support in "Culture
Shock"
Wednesday, 9/12
WARMUPS DAY ONE: fanboys SAT LIST
ONE
SAT LIST ONE: activity
Practice Culture Shock Vocab with Connotation
Review Main Idea and supporting details in
“Culture Shock"
Identify cause and effect Vocabulary in
"Culture Shock"
Friday, 9/14
Warm up Two: fanboys and empathy journal
SAT LESSON ONE QUIZ
SAT Lesson Two. Homework due Tuesday: fill
in the blank
Vocab practice from context
Connect cause and effect in article using
transitions
Tuesday, 9/18
Warm-up Three: Fanboys and Culture Shock
transitions
SAT Lesson two h.w. due: Fill in the blank
Culture Shock Quiz #1
Read "Seeing Through the Rules”
Identify main idea and supporting details
Identify cause and effect vocabulary
Thursday, 9/20
Warm up Four: Discuss a time you did not know
what was going on because of a cultural
misunderstanding
SAT Lesson Two: Activity
Culture Shock Vocab Activity
“Seeing Through the Rules”
Identify main idea and supporting details
Monday, 9/24
SAT Lesson Two: QUIZ
SAT Lesson Three: Homework Fill in the blank.
Warm up Five: How does a person’s point-ofview affect his/her decisions?
Vocabulary Activity (connotations)
Use Cause and Effect
Wednesday, 9/26
SAT Lesson Three: Homework DUE Fill in
the blank.
Warm up SIX: What are the effects of
cultural shifts/changes?
Vocab in context practice (p.116) TEST NEXT
CLASS
Assessment with “Expatriates in India”:
(individual work)
Choose pre-reading,
Identify Main Idea and supporting
details
Connect Cause and Effect in the
article (use transitions)
Friday, 9/28
SAT Lesson Three: activity
Culture Shock Vocabulary Assessment
Assessment with“Expatriates in India”:
(individual work)
Choose pre-reading,
Identify Main Idea and supporting
details
Connect Cause and Effect in the
article (use transitions)
Tuesday, 10/2
SAT Lesson Three: QUIZ
Cause and Effect ASSESSMENT
VOCABULARY
Thursday, 10/4
Mobile lab: writing cause and effect essay
Monday, 10/8
Mobile lab: writing cause and effect essay
Wednesday, 10/10
Cause and effect essay DUE