“I Acknowledge Mine”Activating Strategy and Vocabulary

Alleviate

•Verb•Definition: To make easier or provide

relief•Sentence: “I took a Tylenol to alleviate

my headache.”

Boisterous•Adjective•Definition: Noisy and lacking in restraint or

discipline•Sentence: Heinz Field was filled with

boisterous Yinzers cheering their team to victory.

Complicity•Noun•Definition: Association or partnership in a

crime or offense.•Sentence: The Hamburgler’s complicity

in petty theft was enough to earn a lifetime ban from McDonald’s.

Stark•Adjective•Definition: Harsh or grim•Sentence: The stark reality is that a large

percentage of the American population is impoverished.

Stridently•Adverb•Definition: Harshly or conspicuously•Sentence: The student disagreed

stridently with his teacher’s interpretation of the poem.

Activating Strategy:• In your notebook or on a separate sheet of

paper, answer the questions below. Be prepared to discuss your responses!▫What is an issue (local, national, global) that you

are passionate about? (ex: education, poverty, etc.) Why does this issue interest you?

▫What are ways you can/could contribute to resolving or addressing this issue?

▫Could you make a career out of your passion for this issue? If so, how?

▫How do you address people who oppose you issue or think it’s unimportant?

Period 4 Warm-Up:

1. Given a vocabulary word, discuss its definition with the people at your table. Then, tape it to an object in the room that is a synonym or antonym to the word. Be prepared to explain your answer.

2. In your notebook or on a separate sheet of paper, write a ten-word summary of “I Acknowledge Mine.”

3. Grab a textbook.

Text Analysis• Group 1 - Identify Goodall's claim and the argumentative

devices she uses to support her claim. ▫ How does each argumentative device contribute to her claim?

• Group 2 - Identify counterclaims to Goodall's argument and how she addresses them.

• Group 3 - Identify rhetorical devices Goodall uses and how they contribute to her argument.▫ Use your notes as needed.

• Group 4 - SOAPSTone the text.▫ Use Goodall’s bio and the background to the essay for additional

evidence (pg. 665).• Group 5 - Evaluate whether or not Goodall used sufficient

evidence to prove her point and whether or not her overall argument was successful.▫ Use specific details/quotes for support.

Regardless of your group number, use direct textual evidence for support!

Summarizing Activity

•Brainstorm a list of alternative methods or suggestions that could alleviate or even eliminate the need for animal testing.

•Be prepared to discuss your answers!

Period 4 Warm-Up:•Read the sentence below. In your notebook/on a

separate sheet of paper, explain the following:▫What literary/rhetorical device is used▫How the device contributes to Goodall’s

argument▫What argumentative device it exemplifies▫What the underlined word means

Laboratory chimpanzees are prisoners, but are guilty of no crimes. Rather, they are helping – perhaps – to alleviate human suffering.

Use of Animals in Biomedical Research

Activating Strategy and Vocabulary

Impede

•Verb•Definition: To obstruct or hinder•Sentence: Skipping school and missing

major assignments will impede your progress toward graduation.

Proponent

•Noun•Definition: A person who pleads for or

supports a cause•Sentence: As a proponent of eliminating

Appo’s traffic circle, you argue that it is hazardous for student drivers.

Rhetoric

•Noun•Definition: Grand but empty talk•Sentence: The voters saw through the

candidate’s empty rhetoric and did not elect him as president.

Speculative•Adjective•Definition: Based on guesses and theories

rather than fact•Sentence: The existence of the Loch Ness

Monster is merely speculative- I won’t believe it until I see it!

Text Analysis•In small groups, complete ALL PARTS the

analysis worksheet for “Biomedical Testing” (second part of the packet you received in class yesterday).

•Be prepared to share your answers!

Period 4 Warm-Up:

In your notebook or on a separate sheet of paper, record your answers to the questions below. Be prepared to discuss the following prompts:

• Based on what you have read in both texts, is scientific advancement worth the price of life?

• Is it better to advance society or be moralistic?

• Use one specific piece of textual evidence and one vocabulary word in your explanation.

Vocab Word Bank

•Alleviate•Boisterous•Complicity

•Impede•Proponent•Rhetoric

•Speculative•Stark

•Stridently