Vocabulary Bingo & MEAL Review

Today we completed the MEAL activity and Vocab Bingo concerning the first human settlements.

AIM: I will determine the evidence and analysis of a partner's paragraph to see if it answers the questions.

Standard: 7.W.E.3 Write content-based reports that frame a key question about an issue and groups ideas in a logical order.

Do Now:
1) Vocabulary term: An idea or a rule but not Ms. Nophlin.
2) Vocabulary term: To use something up, to eat or to buy.
3) Vocabulary term: To have a baby or to reproduce.
4) If 17 bands settled next to a river, how many people would be using the water?

Lesson Steps:
We went over Friday's quiz and then went right into playing Vocabulary Bingo. This game reviewed many of the key words that related to the MEAL paragraph that had been written for homework.

We then went over how to determine if a piece of analysis actually answered the question. Students paired up and read over another student's work. They were given highlighters and instructed to only highlight a piece of analysis that fully answered the question. If a student received their paper back with no highlights then they knew that they had to rewrite their paragraph.

Homework: Rewrite MEAL paragraph if necessary (The Question: How did humans in early settlements use technology to improve their lives?)