1.4.7 Roots, "Finest" Ch 6-7, Sustained Writing

Roots, The Finest Hours Chapter 6-7, Sustained Writing Practice

​Lesson 1.4.7

Objectives:

• sort words based on root

• pronounce multisyllabic words correctly
  

​Word Work: Roots (aud, cert, dem, man)

​Root	​Definition
​aud	​to hear or listen
​cert	true, sure​
​dem	people​
man​	​hand

​Root Review

Categorize

Options (16)

audiobook

uncertified

certifiable

concert

disconcert

manicure

manipulate

maneuver

manager

epidemic

demography

demonstration

endemic

audition

audiophile

audibility

Sort the words based on their root.

aud

cert

dem

man

Reading: The Finest Hours Chapters 6-7

Objectives:

• recall details from Chapters 6 and 7 of The Finest Hours

• identify evidence that supports a claim

• Today, you will find out more background information about Bernie Webber, including the story about how he met his wife, Miriam.

  • Miriam Webber was a telephone operator.

  • People would dial a number and ask an operator to connect them to an area's switchboard.

  • The operator would literally plug wires into the correct jack.

• Telephone switchboard operators had access to all connected phone numbers and were a key part of telecommunications for years before the system became automated. It was a physical job that required quick thinking and great communication skills.

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​Historical Context

Multiple Choice

What did a telephone switchboard operator do?

• They would call people who were lonely and wanted to talk by working at a free hotline.

• They would answer customer service questions about telephones by waiting for people to call into a service.

• They would connect people who wanted to talk by plugging the correct wire into the correct jack.

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  They would gossip and listen in to phone calls by picking up a receiver.

• Trepidation: nervous, worried feeling

• Ominous: foreshadowing doom

• Epiphany: a sudden realization

• Dispatches: messages sent with urgency

• Disorient: to cause or lose sense of time, place, or direction

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Vocab

• Today, you will read Chapters 6 and 7 of The Finest Hours.

• Your focus should be on enjoying and getting into the story.

• As you read, make annotations about:

  • questions

  • emotional responses

  • items of interest

Additionally, consider how what you read connects to the inquiry question: Are we better together?

First Read

Reorder

In what order did the events occur in Chapters 1 to 7?

• Bernie Webber looks out at the windows of the Chatham Coast Guard Station at the furious storm and wonders what will happen that day.

• The oil tanker the Pendleton splits in half.

• Off the coast of Cape Cod, the hull of the Fort Mercer cracks and splits in half.

• The Coast Guard sends two 36-foot motor lifeboats out to help the Mercer and then learns the Pendleton also split in half.

• Daniel Cluff orders Bernie to pick a crew and head out to help the Pendleton in the CG 36500, a small wooden rescue boat.

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Multiple Select

In Chapter 7, the author gives important details about the community of Cape Cod. Which pieces of text evidence show that the people in and around Cape Cod are supporting the rescue efforts?

• "One local resident, 82-year-old 'Good' Walter Eldridge, had built himself a cottage with wood taken from the wrecks of 17 different vessels that met their fates on Chatham Bar" (54).

• "Ordinary men and women went home and began cooking warm meals for the seamen in hopes they would return" (51).

• "The call went out to the town clothier to gather up warm clothes" (51).

• "The settlers built their dwellings with low roofs to withstand hurricanes and blizzards and faced the structures south for maximum exposure to the sun" (52).

Writing: Sustained Writing Practice

Learners can:

•   complete a sustained writing practice

• Throughout your course, you will practice your writing by completing sustained writing practices.

• These writing practices will look like the baseline writings we did day 2.

• The goal of the sustained writing practice is to boost your writing stamina.

• You will have two prompts to choose from

• You can respond in 2 ways:

  • You may respond in an edio text box

  • You may write in microsoft word and upload the document to edio
    

Sustained Writing

Develop your argument that responds to the question, Are we better together?

In a previous lesson, you submitted a claim and brainstormed some reasons. You have been adding evidence to support your claim. You can use this time to explain your examples and develop your writing project.

Prompt 1

Should the federal or state governments require that all citizens who can do so donate their time and money to community centers, shelters, and soup kitchens to better support communities and strengthen the feeling of togetherness between people?

Prompt 2

Today, you:

• studied common roots;

• completed a first read of Chapters 6 and 7 of The Finest Hours; and

• completed a sustained writing activity.

Continue to think about ways in which The Finest Hours and your work in ELA address this unit's inquiry question: Are we better together?

Wrap Up

• The rest of class is Choice Time. You can be working on:

  • iReady Reading Practice

  • Silent Reading

  • Get help from Mrs. Massack

  • Overdue Edio Lessons

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Choice Time