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Lesson 1

Activity 1:

Students play the "game" of YES and NO (negative exemplars) with concepts.  The Concept Attainment approach is often included in many of the current text adoptions.  In the Houghton Mifflin Catastrophe's Unit we had begun with concept attainment.  We had started with a concept attainment approach to 'catastrophe' and built it up from sub-concepts (Human Error and Natural Disaster's).  What had we seen and heard in the stories.  They would need to find out what that idea was by using the YES/NO clues.

So it was a natural process when 9-11 struck to continue the concept attainment lessons with "Heroes".  I started off with the words "brave,"  "problem solver," "safety",  "honest",  "courage", "selfless" and "helpful." These were words that described a group of people. These were YES-words.  I added a few NO-words: "troublemaker",  "problems",  and "hurtful." Several students thought they knew the concept, so one boy gave me a YES-word: "fearless."  Students got the "ah-ha!" "HEROES!"  The words also serve as a word bank for future writing.

 

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