Unit 3 - Wanderlust Lesson 5
Wednesday, October 29th
Today's Goal: To learn about and discuss the upcoming U.S. midterm elections; To preview chapter 7 of Goon Squad.
Agenda:
1. Work with a peer and use context clues to answer students’ language and content questions from Goon Squad
2. Activity about the U.S. midterm elections
3. Preview chapter 7 of Goon Squad
**Remember, we're focusing on correct usage of the past tense this week!
Today's Goal: To learn about and discuss the upcoming U.S. midterm elections; To preview chapter 7 of Goon Squad.
Agenda:
1. Work with a peer and use context clues to answer students’ language and content questions from Goon Squad
2. Activity about the U.S. midterm elections
3. Preview chapter 7 of Goon Squad
**Remember, we're focusing on correct usage of the past tense this week!
Activity #1 - Notecard Questions
1. Take 6 index cards. Write 3 language questions and 3 content questions (these questions may be things you don't know the answer to OR things you think would be interesting to discuss) on the cards. (10 mins)
2. Place all of the cards in a pile in the middle of the desk.
3. Take a card with your partner and work together to answer or discuss the question. Write the answer or some key points from your discussion on the back of the card (10-15 mins)
4. Share one of your cards with the class on the doc cam.
1. Take 6 index cards. Write 3 language questions and 3 content questions (these questions may be things you don't know the answer to OR things you think would be interesting to discuss) on the cards. (10 mins)
2. Place all of the cards in a pile in the middle of the desk.
3. Take a card with your partner and work together to answer or discuss the question. Write the answer or some key points from your discussion on the back of the card (10-15 mins)
4. Share one of your cards with the class on the doc cam.
Activity #2 - U.S. Midterm Elections
1. What do you know about the U.S. Midterm Elections? Brainstorm with your partner.
2. Watch the video "What 'We the People' Want" from the New York Times.
As you watch, consider the following questions:
1. What does this video reveal about the current mood of America?
2. How do the people in the video feel about President Obama and Congress?
1. What do you know about the U.S. Midterm Elections? Brainstorm with your partner.
2. Watch the video "What 'We the People' Want" from the New York Times.
As you watch, consider the following questions:
1. What does this video reveal about the current mood of America?
2. How do the people in the video feel about President Obama and Congress?
3. There are 3 main aspects of the midterm elections: the House, the Senate, Governorships. 4. Look at the electoral maps. What do you think they mean? 5. With a partner, you will read about ONE aspect of the midterm elections.
6. Teach/share your articles and ideas with the class. |
Activity #3 - Goon Squad Quote Predictions
1. Recall the unit's theme: WANDERLUST. But sometimes, the best place in the world is home!
Discuss with a partner: Describe your hometown. Are you from a city, the country or the suburbs? What do you think are the benefits and drawbacks of living in each of these places? What type of person lives in these places? Where would you make your ideal home? (5mins)
1. Recall the unit's theme: WANDERLUST. But sometimes, the best place in the world is home!
Discuss with a partner: Describe your hometown. Are you from a city, the country or the suburbs? What do you think are the benefits and drawbacks of living in each of these places? What type of person lives in these places? Where would you make your ideal home? (5mins)
2. Chose a slip of paper with your partner. There is an "important quote" from The Goon Squad Chapter 7 on the paper. Work with your partner to guess the meaning of the underlined words and make predictions about what the quote might mean and what the chapter may be about. (10-15 mins)
3. Share some of your ideas on the doc cam.
GOON SQUAD CHAPTER 7 QUOTES:
Stephanie and Bennie had lived in Crandale a year before they were invited to a party.
(Language question: What tenses are used in this sentence and why?)
During that first winter in town, the sister of one of Bennie’s artists sponsored them for membership to the Crandale Country Club. After a process only slightly more arduous than applying for citizenship, they were admitted in late June.
Stephanie recognized a distant thop thop of tennis balls. The sound induced a swoon of nostalgia.
Kathy’s husband, Clay, wore seersucker shorts and a pink oxford shirt, an ensemble that might have seemed ironic on another person.
(Do you know what type of person would wear clothes like this? Google a picture of these clothes if you need to. What does “ironic” mean?)
(at a cocktail party) …the conversation topic was the presence of Al Qaeda in the New York area…any kook with a grudge could call himself Al Qaeda, but if he lacked money, training, backup (Clay gave another quick head shake, then flicked his eyes at Bennie)…
(Why do you think Clay flicked his eyes at Bennie? What do we know about Bennie from previous chapters?)
In prison, Jules seemed to regain the composure he’d lost so spectacularly in the months before the assault. He went on medication for his bipolar disorder and made peace with the end of his marriage engagement.
Jules turned to her, incredulous. “Do you socialize with Republicans?”
“It happens, Jules.”
“You and Bennie? Hanging out with Republicans?”
Bosco was unrecognizable as the scrawny, stovepipe-panted practitioner of late-eighties sound somewhere between punk and ska, a hive of redheaded mania who had made Iggy Pop look indolent onstage.
He watched Stephanie anxiously: a big, ailing man with one bold idea left, ablaze with hope that she would like it.
3. Share some of your ideas on the doc cam.
GOON SQUAD CHAPTER 7 QUOTES:
Stephanie and Bennie had lived in Crandale a year before they were invited to a party.
(Language question: What tenses are used in this sentence and why?)
During that first winter in town, the sister of one of Bennie’s artists sponsored them for membership to the Crandale Country Club. After a process only slightly more arduous than applying for citizenship, they were admitted in late June.
Stephanie recognized a distant thop thop of tennis balls. The sound induced a swoon of nostalgia.
Kathy’s husband, Clay, wore seersucker shorts and a pink oxford shirt, an ensemble that might have seemed ironic on another person.
(Do you know what type of person would wear clothes like this? Google a picture of these clothes if you need to. What does “ironic” mean?)
(at a cocktail party) …the conversation topic was the presence of Al Qaeda in the New York area…any kook with a grudge could call himself Al Qaeda, but if he lacked money, training, backup (Clay gave another quick head shake, then flicked his eyes at Bennie)…
(Why do you think Clay flicked his eyes at Bennie? What do we know about Bennie from previous chapters?)
In prison, Jules seemed to regain the composure he’d lost so spectacularly in the months before the assault. He went on medication for his bipolar disorder and made peace with the end of his marriage engagement.
Jules turned to her, incredulous. “Do you socialize with Republicans?”
“It happens, Jules.”
“You and Bennie? Hanging out with Republicans?”
Bosco was unrecognizable as the scrawny, stovepipe-panted practitioner of late-eighties sound somewhere between punk and ska, a hive of redheaded mania who had made Iggy Pop look indolent onstage.
He watched Stephanie anxiously: a big, ailing man with one bold idea left, ablaze with hope that she would like it.