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MODULE 2 LESSON 1
Presented by Ms. Dickerson for 8th grade
WELCOME
“Over 10 months in 1916, the two armies at Verdun suffered over 700,000 casualties, including some 300,000 killed.”
“I am young; I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
WELCOME
fatuous (adj.) smugly foolish or stupid
superficial (adj.) interested only in what is trivial, readily apparent, or lies on the surface
abyss (n.) a vast pit too deep to be measured
Read each quotation aloud. Define unknown words, using the provided definitions. For each quotation, write a one-sentence summary explaining what you learn about war from reading it.
OBJECTIVE
By the end of this lesson, you need to understand that a single word could have multiple meanings depending on how it's used in a text.
LAUNCH
Essential Question: How does literature and art illuminate the effects of World War I?
Focusing Question:Why did countries and individuals join World War I?
Content Framing Question-Wonder:What do I notice and wonder about “The War to End All Wars” and “The Peace President Goes to War”?
What kinds of texts would you expect to read or view while studying World War I?
LEARN
Apply Prior Knowledge
Apply Prior Knowledge
How many ways can you rewrite the Essential Question using a definition or synonym of the word illuminate?
How do literature and art illuminate the effects of World War I?
Encounter Texts
LET'S READ & ANNOTATE!!!
Encounter Texts
VOCABULARY
alliance (n.) a group of people, countries, or groups that share certain goals and agree to work together
ultimatum (n.) a final statement of demands, esp. when issued with a threat of action if rejected, as in a diplomatic discussion
neutrality (n.) the position of not taking any side in an argument
Explore Word Relationships
*Number your paragraphs
Explore Word Relationships
GOAL: When you finish working in your groups, you should understand how word relationships helps us identify words that we do not know.
Ways to identify words we do not know:
- What form is the word in? plural/singular
- Is the word connected to its opposite?
- Does it connect to the title?
In small groups, read aloud the Focusing Question and answer t...
In small groups, read aloud the Focusing Question and answer the followig questions in your response journal.
What do you notice about the way the world war is connected to another key word in each title?
How could each word relationship indicate the article’s focus for explaining why countries joined the war?
Silently reread the first sentence of paragraph 4 in “The War to End All Wars.”
What word in this sentence connects to the word relationship you identified in the article’s title?
Turn to “The Peace President Goes to War” and silently reread the first sentence of paragraph 7.
What word in this sentence connects to the word relationship you identified in the article’s title?
Silently reread the first sentence of paragraph 4 in “The War to E...
You will now develop what they noticed about word relationships by conducting a word hunt to find other words like it.
Half of your groups will take one of the stories and annotate as many words as possible that relate to your assigned word.
Conflicts for “The War to End All Wars” or Tensions for “The Peace President Goes to War.”
*hunt for a variety of connections, identifying words that describe actions and qualities related to conflicts or tensions, and not just nouns that are synonyms of your word.*
You will now develop what they noticed about word relationshi...
GROUP RULES
LET'S SHARE!
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Individuals choose one word from the group’s annotations, write its definition, and write one to two sentences explaining how the word is used to describe an incident or development about conflict or tension in the article.
Research Who, What, or Where
Review your assigned article and identify something that you would like to know more about.
Using one of the 3 W's, create a research question in your response journal.
*Each partner should have their own.
WITH A PARTNER
LAND
Reflect on today's learning objective.
Explain one thing you noticed in your assigned article, and one thing you wonder.