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Chris Buttimer, 8th Grade English Introducing the Topic |
Topic of the Week
Should secret wiretapping be legal? Target Words |
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Sample Lesson Clip 4 of 5 |
[clip length—7:41] STUDENT 1: R-V STUDENT 2: E-I. STUDENT 1: E-I… STUDENT 2: L-L. STUDENT 1: L-L… STUDENT 2: E-N. STUDENT 1: E-N? STUDENT 2: Yeah, and C-E. STUDENT 1: C-E? STUDENT 2: Yes. STUDENT 1: Ah! C-E, yeah. STUDENT: Okay, there’s the definition. STUDENT 1: surveillance. STUDENT 1: Definition, right? STUDENT 2: Yeah. STUDENT 1: Just look at that definition. STUDENT x: Yeah. STUDENT 1: Then we need the synonym. STUDENT 3: Well, could you get a thesaurus? STUDENT 1: Huh? STUDENT 2: Did you just go on your own? STUDENT 3: Hey, Sean. STUDENT 4: Yes? STUDENT 1: Okay STUDENT: They always call me that. TEACHER: Synonym? STUDENT 1: Yeah, synonym. TEACHER: It’s right up there. S-Y-N-O-N-Y-M. STUDENT 1: S-Y-N… STUDENT 2: O-N-Y… STUDENT 1: O-N… STUDENT 2: Y… STUDENT 1: Y… STUDENT 2: M-S. TEACHER: So why don’t you work on this section> TEACHER: Guys, they don’t have to be too beautiful, okay? Amber, I wouldn’t go over them in pencil first, I would get right to it. STUDENT 1: no, we’re doing surveillance. Surveil? STUDENT 3: Surveil. STUDENT 1: The government surveilled… STUDENT 3: Is surveil a word? TEACHER: If you look in the dictionary, though… STUDENT 3: You find it. TEACHER: …sometimes they give you different forms. Let’s take a look for surveillance. STUDENT 3: Surveil? TEACHER: So you can— Surveillant. STUDENT 1: Surveillant. TEACHER: Which is someone who is performing surveillance. STUDENT 3: What’s surveillance? TEACHER: And it’s actually A-N-T… STUDENT 1: A-N-T. TEACHER: Instead of E-N-T. [to another group] Yeah? STUDENT: Is wiretap? TEACHER: Yeah. A wire— a wiretap? Sure. wiretaps. STUDENT 3: Surveil? TEACHER: Not surveil, but survey… STUDENT 3: Survey. TEACHER: …is actually where it comes from. STUDENT 3: That’s how you spell survey? TEACHER: Yeah. Uh, S-U-R-V-E- Y. STUDENT 3: Y. Survey. TEACHER: And then you can turn that into surveys, surveying. STUDENT 3: Yeah. TEACHER: Okay. The White House is, uh, surveying suspicious activity. Okay? STUDENT 3: The president is kept under surveillance at all times. TEACHER: The president is kept under surveillance at all times. Right, yeah. That’s more out of protection, rather than that he’s up to... STUDENT 3: Yeah. TEACHER: …criminal activities, right? At least we hope. STUDENT 3: Sometimes. STUDENT x: I don’t see it in. STUDENT 3: It’s embarrassing, though. TEACHER: How’s it coming with the notwithstanding group? open up? STUDENT 1: Well, he was telling me to do the sentences part, but I don’t know the sentence— I don’t know any sentences. TEACHER: Can you come up with a sentence that uses despite? STUDENT 1: Not really. TEACHER: Not really? Well, what you could always do is turn back to the book, right? And you could use a sentence from here. STUDENT 1: Oh. TEACHER: Other people are against the act. Notwithstanding . You could use that sentence, right? STUDENT 1: How about the source of the problem could be traced back? TEACHER: Good. Take the whole thing. TEACHER: What’s that? Notwithstanding doesn’t really have a different form. STUDENT 1: Can I do this? STUDENT 1: Go ahead. Keep writing. STUDENT 2: What’s the different form? STUDENT 1: Oh. Um… TEACHER: How you guys doing? What’s your picture? STUDENT 1: All right, that’s good enough. STUDENT 2: Covert. STUDENT 1: What is it? Covert, covert. Okay, so covertly, covertness. STUDENT 2: Oh. STUDENT 1: That’s the noun or whatever. STUDENT 2: I was right, covertly. STUDENT 1: Covertly, yeah. STUDENT 3: Okay, write that. STUDENT 2: And… STUDENT 3: Wait, hold on. Now do another one here. STUDENT 1: You write a different word, and we got a suspicious look. We had to write the definitions, synonyms, and then we did different forms, like suspicion. And then here’s our picture. And we had two sentences. The police were suspicious about the conversation they overheard. That’s one of our two examples. STUDENT 2: And the mother was suspicious about her child coming home late. STUDENT 1: Yeah, our word was wiretapping. And well, we got our definitions, and it’s to listen or telegraph, to get information or to tap into the phone calls and stuff. Our only synonym, pretty much, was snooping. STUDENT 2: Or listening. STUDENT 1: We got some sentences. The Gestapo wiretapped all of our calls. And the wiretapper heard, “Don’t you feel like someone’s listening to us?” And, we got different forms, wiretapping, wiretap, wiretapper and wiretapped. And our picture was a blue house and an orange house, and the purple house was the wiretapping house. TEACHER: Protect America Act. I should look that up. I’ll let you guys know by the end of the week what was actually decided. STUDENT 1: We have two different opinions. I think we should— like, it’s okay to wiretap. I mean, because if you have nothing to hide, then I mean, I don’t— and I don’t know why you’d worry. But him, he has a different opinion. STUDENT 2: Yeah, well, I mean, that’s a violation of personal space. And I think— well, yeah. He is right in a way, but I got a little bugged when in the reading, they said that on international calls, as if saying that, No, Americans aren’t bad, only other people. So I felt a little bad. STUDENT 2: Yeah.
- Students work in groups preparing posters. - Students use a thesaurus for synonyms and dictionaries to find other forms of the word. - Teacher encourages "notwithstanding" group to use "despite" to help them compose a sentence. - "Covert" group uses dictionary to check if "covertly" is a word. - "Suspicious" group describes progress on their poster. - "Wiretapping" group describes progress on their poster. - "Wiretapping" group shares a few personal opinions on the weekly topic.
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