Tuesday, December 2, 2008

What's the Main Idea?

Today we reviewed what we learned on the Gigantic Map and then went right into a lesson about reading for the main idea.


AIM: I will determine the main idea of two reading passages and I will learn 16 new vocabulary words related to hunter-gatherers.


Standard: 7.1.5 Describe the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies of the Paleolithic Age.

Do now
1) Vocabulary Word: a high level of cultural development.
2) Vocabulary Word: “made up of” or the ingredients.
3) Vocabulary Word: “Survival of the Fittest”
4) If 4 bands of hunter-gatherers settled in the same area, how many people could be there?

Lesson Steps
We reviewed the big map, then got started on our new system of online quizzes and ended the class with a Skillbuilder activity designed to focus on determining the main idea of a reading passage.

Homework:
Students are to fill out the main idea chart for the cartoon reading #7

Handouts:
Skillbuilder Handout

Skill Builder

Cartoon Reading #7

Reading#7