Reading 3

IECP

Spring 2013

Nikki Mattson

Agenda

• Spring break recap

• Idiom

• Finish summary poster and analysis

• Jeopardy – RE 3B text

• 4A text activities

Spring Break

• What did you do?

• What was the best part?

Put in on a/the back burner• Postpone thinking about an issue or

working on a project

Practice

• What is something that you have put on the backburner recently? What are you doing instead?

______

• I don’t want to do any HW, so let’s put that on the backburner and…

• I don’t have to get a job yet, so I’m planning to put my applications on the backburner and…

Summary poster and analysis

• 1) complete poster

• 2) complete analysis sheet

• 3) if you finish before other groups, help them .

Jeopardy – RE 3B

• Jeopardy

Questions1)Why does the speaker mention the spider and beetle examples?2)How is nature “like a catalog of products”?3)Why does the speaker mention the greenhouse building project?

Biomimetic Video

What is Biomimetics?

Pg. 60 – “Before You Read” and Part A

pg. 61, line 15 – The thorny devil can also do this when standing on damp sand – a _______competitive

advantage in the desert.

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Pg. 61, line 17 – Parker had come to solve the_______of precisely how it does this…

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Pg. 61, line 19 - …to make a_______to help people collect water in the desert.

Pg. 61, line 38 – Parker sent his observations and experimental results to…two __________.

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Pg. 61, line 45 – This combination of biological ______ and engineering pragmatism is vital to success in biomimetics.

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Pg. 62, line 95 - …Fearing is confident that over time he will close the ________ between nature and human

engineering.

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pg. 62, line 105 – Cutkosky studied the extremely small structures on the gecko’s feet that allow it to run up and

down ______walls…

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Pg. 63, line 135 – For the present, engineers cannot hope to _______ it.

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Pg. 63, line 136 – _________, the gap with nature is gradually closing.

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Pg. 63, line 136 - …the gap with nature is _______ closing.

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1) Read one paragraph silently. 2) Work with your partner to write a 1 or 2 sentence

summary of the paragraph. Use paraphrasing. 3) Make two copies (of each summary sentence).

One copy should be written on the colored paper (make it large!) One sentence should be on each color.

One copy should be added to the paragraph summary of the whole article. (transitions should be added)

4) Continue until you have all 9 paragraphs summarized.

Summarizing

Unit 3 Test

Part A - Reading Comprehension = Wednesday Part B – Vocabulary = Friday

Complete VP 7

Read novel assignments for Friday A Tangled Web 12-15 Oliver 6-7 Great Expectations 7-9

HW