Mid-Day Update: Emergency Vocabulary Lesson

I'm noticing a disturbing trend as I examined students' current event article annotations.

9/10 students have circled, underlined, or highlighted the phrase "pro bono", and put a question mark by it.

But when I asked 3rd period what pro bono meant, no one uttered a peep.

You know what this means?

It means nobody looked it up, despite not knowing its definition.

Do you think people come out to their car, out in the parking lot, notice they have a flat tire, and say, 

"Welp! That sure looks like a flat tire!"

And then jump in their car and drive away?

No.

1. Identify the problem.
1. Ex.: "I don't know this word/phrase."
2. Take steps to fix/solve/address it.
1. Ex.: "I'll just look it up right here on my phone that has the internet (and/or) that has a dictionary on it."

Def. of "Pro Bono"