Reading 3IECP

Fall 2014Nikki Mattson

Agenda

• Idiom

• VP 10 quiz

• Newspaper Presentation

• Reading Explorer 5A

• Try it out with someone near you.

VP 10 Quiz

Newspaper Presentation

Discussion Questions – 3A• 1. What is the main idea of the article?

• 2. Why do you think that access to clean water is so disproportionate(unequal) around the world?

• 3. What are the obstacles/struggles to obtaining clean water that are mentioned in the article?

• 4. What are the three ways that the Hamar, the Samburu and the Chileans collect water?

• 5. What are the potential sources of water that exist around the world? Where does our water come from in State College?

• 6. As seen in the examples in the article, what are three ways that nature can help lead people to water?

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.

The Greatest Journey

Video

Post-Video Pair Discussion

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?

Pre-Reading Vocabulary Activity 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.

Visual Vocabulary for Unit 5A

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.

5A Text – Reading, Note-taking, and Sharing

• 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 2

HW• Friday = newspaper quiz (1-3 of the

discussion questions) (no notes)• Friday = blue/green paper (RE 5A)

• Complete VP 11 + check answers = Monday (3A) or Tuesday (3B)

• Print two copies of VP 11 group work assignments = Monday (3A) or Tuesday (3B)