1. Reading 3
IECP
Spring 2013
Nikki Mattson

2. Agenda
• Spring break recap
• Idiom
• Finish summary poster and analysis
• Jeopardy – RE 3B text
• 4A text activities

3. Spring Break
• What did you do?
• What was the best part?

5. Put in on a/the back burner
• Postpone thinking about an issue or
working on a project

6. 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…

7. Summary poster and analysis
• 1) complete poster
• 2) complete analysis sheet
• 3) if you finish before other groups, help
them .

8. Jeopardy – RE 3B
• Jeopardy

10. What is Biomimetics?
Questions

1)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

11. Pg. 60 – “Before You Read” and Part A


12. pg. 61, line 15 – The thorny devil can also do this when
standing on damp sand – a _______competitive advantage in
the desert.

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

13. Pg. 61, line 17 – Parker had come to solve the_______of precisely
how it does this…

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

14. Pg. 61, line 19 - …to make a_______to help people collect water in
the desert.
  Colleagues
 Vital
 Nonetheless
 Insight
 Riddle
 gradually
 Device
 Gap
 Vertical
 Reproduce

15. Pg. 61, line 38 – Parker sent his observations and experimental
results to…two __________.

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

16. Pg. 61, line 45 – This combination of biological ______ and
engineering pragmatism is vital to success in biomimetics.

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

17. Pg. 62, line 95 - …Fearing is confident that over time he will close
the ________ between nature and human engineering.

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

18. pg. 62, line 105 – Cutkosky studied the extremely small structures
on the gecko’s feet that allow it to run up and down ______walls…

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

19. Pg. 63, line 135 – For the present, engineers cannot hope to _______
it.
Colleagues
Vital
 Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

20. Pg. 63, line 136 – _________, the gap with nature is gradually closing.

Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

21. Pg. 63, line 136 - …the gap with nature is _______ closing.
 Colleagues
Vital
Nonetheless
Insight
Riddle
gradually
Device
Gap
Vertical
Reproduce

22. Summarizing

 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.

23. HW

 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