Agenda Day Fifteen

EH I    Agenda Day Fifteen September 25-26, 2013 Wed/Thurs                  Ms. Lewis

Objective  1.6.3 Students will be able to identify and use context clues to find meaning in unfamiliar words and phrases.

Essential Question  1.6.3 How can context clues reveal the meaning of unfamiliar words?

Resources: SAT Voc list #2 (student sentences on turnitin.com)

Activities:  Explicit instruction in using context clues (definition/explanation, inference, synonym, restatement, antonym, contrast).

Higher Order Question:  What does the word, _____ mean as used in the sentence/excerpt?

Vocabulary:

Context clues - Unfamiliar words are often surrounded by words or phrases called context clues that help readers understand their meanings. When readers meet unfamiliar words, context clues narrow the possible word choices, thereby making word identification more accurate.

Definition/explanation - A word or phrase is initially defined and then further expanded with examples, explanations, and restatements.

Restatement - author uses other words or phrases followed by an explanation (in other words, that is)

Comparison/contrast - Author explains the unfamiliar word by providing an antonym

Inference - The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true; the conclusions drawn from this process

Antonym - A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word

Synonym - A word that has the same or almost the same meaning as another word

Activities: 

• Students take test on Part One The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
• Continue Grammar Remediation Phase Two

• Review “Non-fiction Unit Concepts and Terms”
• Review Voc 2 definition, synonyms, antonyms, companion forms.  Write an original sentence for each word using context clues.  Identify the type of clue. (Use your context clues handouts.) 

Home Learning: 

• Continue Reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Study for upcoming SAT #2 test