ATB: Type 1. What do you think will happen in Chapter 3 of Slakes Limbo? Answer in at least 5 sentences.

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1 Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 5/2/16 - Day 1 ATB: Type 1. What do you think will happen in Chapter 3 of Slakes Limbo? Answer in at least 5 sentences. Activities: 1. Type 1: Listen to the song at the link below. After listening to the song, think about the three questions below: Answer each question with two sentences. responses. What s going on in this song? What do hear, that makes you say that? What more can you find? 2. Type 2: Draw a Venn Diagram to Compare and Contrast the song and the poem Take it Home to Jerome from 4/ Found Poem Due by Tuesday 7:00 AM Obj. 1. Interpret the meaning of a poem. 2. Compare and Contrast a poem and a song.

2 Take it Home to Jerome Well, every day I work, Bringing home my pay, Come to find out baby, You've bin giving my money away. Tell me baby, What you tryin' to do? You ain't seen me hummin', Like you used to do. Tell me mama, What's wrong with you? You know pretty baby, I'm so crazy 'bout you. All you pretty women, Bring it to my home, You don't have to worry, I won't do you no wrong. Bring it on home, Bring it to jerome, Bring it on home, Bring it to jerome. Look here pretty baby, This mess I won't stand, All the other women, Say you got another man. Bring it on home,

3 Bring it to jerome, Bring it on home, Bring it to jerome.

4 Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 5/3/16 - Day 2 ATB: Organize your reading binders. Fourth Quarter Notebook Check #1 Wednesday 5/4/16. Activities: 1. Read Chapters 3-5 in Slakes Limbo 2. Complete Chapters 3-5 Questions Obj. 1. Explain the conflict in the book Slakes Limbo. 2. Describe the plot in Slakes Limbo. Slakes Limbo Chapters 3-5 Questions: 1. Describe Slake s new room. 2. What kind of business did Slake undertake? How did he get the idea for his new business? 3. In On Another Track, what did Willis Joe remember telling his grandmother? How did she react to his news? 4. What were Slake s two main sources of supply for his newspaper business? 5. How did Slake become an expert subway traveler? 6. Slake earned some money to buy food by reselling secondhand newspapers. Do you think that Slake was basically honest or dishonest? 7. Do you think Slake is a worthless lump?

5 Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 5/4/16 - Day 3 ATB: Read New York City Subway System Opens and Our Subway, Ourselves: Images Through the Ages. Answer the article questions. Activities: 1. Fourth Quarter Notebook Check #1 2. Article Summary #1 Fourth Quarter Use the article that you used for the Found Poem and complete the Ten Percent Summary Sheets. Obj. 1. Identify key vocabulary in a newspaper article. 2. Summarize the central ideas in a newspaper article.

6 Oct. 27, 1904 New York City Subway System Opens By The Learning Network October 27, :05 am On Oct. 27, 1904, the first rapid transit subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit (I.R.T.), opened in New York City. The line ran approximately nine miles from City Hall north to Grand Central Station, then west to Times Square and up the West Side to 145th Street. The New York Times described the excitement among city dwellers for the subway s opening: For the first time in his life Father Knickerbocker went underground yesterday; went underground, he and his children, to the number of 150,000, amid the tooting of whistles and the firing of salutes, for a first ride in a subway which for years had been scoffed at as an impossibility. The first underground railway system, the Metropolitan Railway, opened in London in The trains ran on steam, which caused problems in the tunnels, but the system proved popular. A competing London metro system introduced electric trains in 1890, which made underground transit more practical. Though the first subway in the United States opened in 1897 in Boston, New York eventually became the American city most associated with underground transportation. After receiving city contracts in 1913, the I.R.T. and rival Brooklyn Rapid Transit (B.R.T.) increased the number of subway lines. These make up most of the modern subway lines the city has today. In 1932, New York City formed the Independent Subway System (IND), taking over the I.R.T. and its remaining private competitor, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, in New York subway riders can still see remnants of the old subway system. Connect to Today: Today, the New York City Subway system has 22 interconnected routes and three shuttles running more than 200 miles among 468 stations, nearly as many stations as there are in the rest of the United States combined. In recent years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway and other transportation in New York, used a series of fare hikes, layoffs and other costcutting measures to cope with budget woes. Our Subway, Ourselves: Images Through the Ages By DAVID W. DUNLAP OCT. 21, 2010 YOU can smell these photos, can t you? You can hear them. You can feel them. If you re a New Yorker of a certain age, you can even taste them. (God help us, there were fast-food counters in the Times Square station until a generation ago. )

7 To mark the subway s 106th birthday this week, Metropolitan and the Lens blog offer the first extensive gallery of subway pictures by staff photographers of The New York Times. In showing us the subway, they show us ourselves sharing a great underground and elevated common, a leveler of prince and pauper, Bloomberg and Jazzbo, where everyone is entitled or condemned to the same experience. There are no business-class subway cars; no wood-paneled IRT Club waiting rooms; no five-star concierge booths for the exclusive use of platinum MetroCard holders. Nor is it saying anything new to note the democracy of the subway. But these images underscore how much of the city can be read in its mass-transit system. As the 20th century opened, New York was an industrial crucible, muscular and brutal, but flirting with progressivism and confident of its role at the cutting edge of the new electric technology. By midcentury, the subway was a nickel-a-ride fact of life for generations that had grown up knowing no other way to get around town. In the 1960s and 70s, the subway became a barometer safe passage was no longer guaranteed. The troubles and spoliation boiling down below would not be confined there very long. Then, within sight of the 21st century, the subway bounded back in the flash of stainless steel and the gleam of fresh-scrubbed ceramic. Chang W. Lee s picture of two young girls playing aboard an N train, taken this month, calls to mind nothing so much as Allyn Baum s photo of an impromptu family card game aboard a Rockaway shuttle, taken 52 years ago. You may come away from this photo essay convinced that for all our differences we really are all waiting for the same train. HOW old is the New York City subway system? WHERE in the subway were there once fast-food counters? WHEN did a ride cost a nickle? WHY, according to this short essay, has the subway been a leveler of prince and pauper? WHAT is the name of the authority that runs the subway in New York City? WHO took his children on the subway the day it opened?

10 Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 5/5/16 - Day 4 ATB: Type 2: Read the line from Slakes Limbo and identify the type of figurative language that the author is using. Write one sentence to explain your answer. answers. Slake sat, his back against the wall, his heart a racing machine, his spirit a frightened cat, his limbs a weak and uncoordinated collection of gears. Activities: 1. Slakes Limbo Chapters 3-5 Quiz 2. Type 2: Use the link below to access the Our Subway, Ourselves: Images Through the Ages. Choose your favorite image and write a paragraph to describe it. In your paragraph explain how the photo relates to the book Slakes Limbo. Identify the year and title of the photo as the title of your paragraph. answers. - Obj. 1. Evaluate the relationship between photos and a novel. 2. Identify figurative language used in the novel Slakes Limbo.

11 Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 5/6/16 - Day 5 ATB: Define Slakes Limbo Chapters 6-8 Vocabulary. (itinerary, decor, scavenger, bisected, adhesive) Activities: 1. Type 1: Use the link below to access a map of the New York City Subway System. If you re traveling from Times Square and you want to reach the World Trade Center as quickly as possible, which train would you ride? Why? answers 2. Slakes Limbo Survival Complete Special Activity Worksheet. Obj. 1. Read and Interpret a subway map. 2. Explain what you would need to survive if you ran away from home.

12 SLAKE S LIMBO SPECIAL ACTIVITY: SURVIVAL During the course of the story, Slake developed excellent survival strategies. Fill in the chart below with specific examples and describe briefly how Slake acquired each element of survival listed. Add to the chart as you continue to read the book. Shelter Food Clothing Money Human Companionship LEARNING LINKS 9

The opposite of abscond is: A. strike back B. default on C. opt out D. stay put

The opposite of abscond is: A. strike back B. default on C. opt out D. stay put Mr. Kochis 7 th Grade Reading 1/7/19 - Day 1 ATB: Word of the Day Copy the definition of the word below and answer the multiple choice question. abscond \ab-ˈskänd, əb-\ verb : run away; usually includes