September 30, 2016 -- Friday


On the board at the beginning of class

1. Warm-up -- vocabulary handout
2. Toms Shoes article
3. Powers    interesting words
4. Mme. C.J. Walker article

Handout

READ 097-6           2016.09.30      Friday         Try to write each of these words in a sentence. 

Entrepreneur                                                       Bolstered

Philanthropist                                                       Undaunted

Menial                                                                      Affluent

Regimen                                                                  Bequeathing

Salves                                                                     Legacy

People had a hard time using any of the words in the sentence, other than "entrepreneur."    "My brother wants to be an entrepreneur."

We went through some of the exercises following the article about Toms Shoes in Chapter 3 of Bridging the Gap

(Extra) Words on the board:

infer

deduce

There are times when we need to read between the lines and infer more information from the information that is written there.

Class as a whole discussed what they knew about Mme. C.J. Walker before reading the article.  In other words, as a class, what schemata (prior knowledge) did the students have?

schemata --

   hair care products

   real name was Saray _____

   had a child, in other words, was a mother

   was an entrepreneur

Homework:

Read the article about Mme. C.J. Walker and find each of the words (from the handout) in the article.  Then write out each of those sentences to hand in at the next  class.

Example:

"ventured"  (This is not one of the words, but just to show you how it's done...)

"Walker continued to expand her market and ventured beyond the United States to Cuba, Jamaica, Haita, Panama, and Costa Rica." 

 page 113, lines 64 and 65

Students do NOT have to do the exercises on pages 114, 115, 116, or 117