Unteachables

Chapters

1 - 4​

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Let's review this week's reading assignment...

​the unteachables

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Introduce the characters from the first 4 chapters.

How are they introduced to the reader?

kiana Roubini

Mr. Kermit

Parker Elias

​​Aldo Braff

Multiple Choice

What is Mr. Kermit's nickname?

• Crossword Puzzler

• Ribbit

• Toilet Bowl

• Kermit d'Frog

Multiple Choice

Why is Parker allowed to have a provisional license at 14?

• His father is a police officer and doesn't care.

• He looks older than he is.

• He needs to bring his Gram groceries.

• He is allowed to drive for the family business.

Multiple Choice

What are the Unteachables called at Kiana's school in California?

• Disoriented Express

• The Dummy Class

• Self-Contained Special Eighth-Grade Class

• Terranova

• Dunderheads

Multiple Choice

What does Mr. Kermit think is the most beautiful word of all?

• Coffee

• Retirement

• Worksheets

• Respect

• Miss Fountain

Multiple Select

Which reason(s) might a student become an Unteachable?

• The student has behavior problems

• The student has trouble learning

• The student is temporary

• The student doesn't do their work

• The student is foreign

Multiple Choice

How does Kiana end up in SCS-8?

• She gets lost on campus trying to find the right classroom.

• Her stepmother registered her into that class.

• She accidentally gets someone else's schedule.

• She asks to take that class so she doesn't have to do anything.

Multiple Choice

“...as we slalom up the driveway, swerving around parked parents dropping off their kids, and screech to a halt by the entrance...”

• stop and start unexpectedly

• move or race back and forth to avoid obstacles

• change direction suddenly, without warning

• move lightly or quickly with small jumps

Multiple Select

Which word(s) or phrase(s) is/are not a synonym:

“She looks frazzled, and I guess I don’t blame her.”

• dilapidated

• verdant

• ragged

• unnerved

• resilient

Multiple Choice

“I knew Greenwich was kind of the boonies, but I never expected to be going to school with Old MacDonald.”

• inner-city or slum

• metropolitan or urban area

• sticks or countryside

• boom town or capital

Multiple Choice

“Where would you stick a guy who could annihilate a backpack with a half-ton pickup truck?”

• reduce to utter nonexistence

• find or discover with great effort

• throw, cast or hurl with force

• raise upward from the ground to another position

Open Ended

Use the word annihilate in a sentence.

Multiple Choice

“Somebody has to be in the remotest classroom of the entire building”

• having an unknown location that is difficult to find

• having the latest wireless technology

• far distant in space, or situated away

• being of poor condition and falling apart

Multiple Select

Which word(s) or phrase(s) is/are not a synonym:

“A boy draped over a desk, fast asleep,

oblivious to it all.”

• spacey

• incognizant

• absentminded

• apprehensive

• sentient

Multiple Choice

“They have to make it into a story

about five brown rabbits and three

white rabbits having a rabbit cotillion.”

• a spring bath in a river or stream close to the burrow

• a formal ball for someone being introduced into society

• an angry dispute or altercation marked by claiming one's territory

• a gathering of friends or relatives after a long separation

Open Ended

“Rahim, who’s fast asleep, lifts his head off the desk and looks around like a deer in headlights.”

Write a simile or metaphor to describe:

a feeling of surprise

“A bucket-filler is someone loving and caring, who fills other people’s invisible buckets with good wishes and positive reinforcement that make them feel special. Someone who creates a disturbance and makes it impossible for other children to learn is not a bucket-filler. That’s a bucket-dipper.”

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Do you think you are a bucket-filler or bucket-dipper? why/why not?

Who else is a shining example of a bucket-filler in your life? How do they show their support for you?​

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question this

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Kiani Roubini is staying with her father and stepmother for a short time while her mother is away. Everything around Kiani feels chaotic, from her wild ride to school, to being left alone, to discovering the Unteachables. Even so, she asks,

"who cares?"

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Do you think that Kiani handled this situation well? ​

What would you do if you had been left alone to get settled in at a new school, in a new city?

What was your first day of Jr. High like?​

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If it were me

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Mr. Kermit doesn't seem to care much about his job. He just wants to keep working long enough to get his full retirement after his many years of teaching. Even when the kids act up, he doesn't pay any attention.

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Is it okay not to give your all at something you're being paid to do?

Should teachers be allowed to run the class however they like, as long as kids stay in school?

What makes someone a good/bad teacher? ​

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going deeper

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