November 4 -28. vp 9 quiz, vocabulary review, re 5 a text

Reading 3

IECP

Fall 2013

Nikki Mattson

HW

• Collect optional article summaries

Agenda

• Idiom

• VP 9 Quiz

• Vocabulary review + game

• 5A text

swallow it hook, line, and sinker

• Be completely and probably foolishly persuaded

Practice

• What other idiom (that we learned in class) expresses this idea?

• What is something that you swallowed hook, line, and sinker recently?

• I told my friend___, and he swallowed it hook, line, and sinker and said___.

VP 9 Quiz

Vocabulary Review + Game

• Review words in small groups

• Review game (whole class)

Unit 5 – Human Journey – pg. 73

Warm up

• What do you think this chapter will be about?

• What does this picture represent?

• Why do you think this picture was chosen for this chapter?

Pre reading –pg. 73

• Discuss the warm-up questions with your partner.

• *remote = far from towns or other places where people live (isolated)

The DNA Trail –pg. 74

• Complete Part A on pg. 74 in pairs.

• Share answers as a whole class.

Video

A. Share what you understood from the video with your partner.

B. What do you think about the study that National Geographic is conducting?

C. What questions do you have about what you saw?

In pairs, say one sentence (each partner) about each slide. Use the vocabulary word in each sentence.

Examples:Portable1. This house is portable because it can be moved from one

place to another.2. It is nice to have a portable house if you are planning to

move around a lot.3. Some people think that portable houses are not wise

purchases because they may not be as stable as permanent houses.

It ends about 200,000 years later with their six and a half billion descendants spread across the earth, living in peace or at war, their faces lit by campfires and computer screens.

In between is an exciting tale of survival, movement, isolation, and conquest, most of it occurring before recorded history.

For decades the only proof was found in a small number of scattered bones and artifacts our ancestors left behind on their journeys.

For decades the only proof was found in a small number of scattered bones and artifacts our ancestors left behind on their journeys.

In the past 20 years, however, increasingly refined DNA technologies have allowed scientists to find a record of ancient human migrations in the DNA of loving people.

But while the bulk of our DNA is the same, what’s left is responsible for our individual differences—in eye color or disease risk, for example.

Although archeological evidence of this 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) migration from Africa to Australia has almost completely vanished, genetic traces of the group that made the trip do exist.

Modern discoveries of 45,000-year-old bodies in Australia, buried at a site called Lake Mungo, provide some physical evidence for the theories as well.

Once across, they followed the immense herds of animals into the mainland and spread to the tip of South America in as little as a thousand years.

Once across, they followed the immense herds of animals into the mainland and spread to the tip of South America in as little as a thousand years.

Step 1 Blues read lines 1-74 (take notes and prepare to summarize) Greens read lines 75-end (take notes and prepare to

summarize)

2) Summarizing and listening Blues summarize your reading and greens listen and check

information that is given (column 1) Greens summarize your reading and blues listen and check

information that is given (column 1)

3) Answering the questions (column 2)– Work together to answer the questions on the handouts

(column 2)– I will collect this handout and grade your answers in column

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Complete VP 10 Complete 5A (blue and green handouts)