Tuesday, September 28th, 2022

  If you are home:

-Understand media bias by researching what it means and looking at this site.

-If you haven't, watch this to understand the stock market

-If you haven't, create and account on marketwatch using the google sign-in option.  Email us for the password to log into the game.

If its Tuesday, it's Vocab!

Overall Learning Target:  I know people in the classroom better; I feel more comfortable talking to more students in the class.

Circle: If there was a fight in the cafeteria and you wanted to know what happened, who is the most reliable person you know?

Target Practice

Intro to the Day
Egg drop announcement
Phones away

Activity: Debrief the Castle Building -- How can you understand yourself and others?

I can explain my personality using the Meyers-Briggs letters.

1) Identify your Meyers Briggs type and share it with your table.

2) Visit this site, select someone else's Meyer's Briggs type, click the "Strengths" tab.

3) Identify one strength that you think came out for that person during the castle building.

4) On a piece of paper, write down your table-mate's name and their strength that came out.

5) Share with the table.

6) Go back and look up your Meyer's Briggs type, click the "Strengths" tab.

7) Identify one strength that came out for you during the castle building.

8) On a piece of paper, write down your strength that came out.

Independent Reading

Why we read

Stock Market Game: 

I can explain how to invest money in the stock market and how the stock market works.

Check your stocks.

Football DBQ

Learning Target: I can evaluate (for bias and perspective) multiple sources to determine what really happened.

You will be reviewing original source documents about an allegedly great catch made by an Oxford Hills player to determine whether the catch was actually great or not.

1) Introduction to determining bias and why it matters.

2) That fight in the cafeteria, if you wanted to know EVERYTHING that happened, what people and evidence would you want to review?

3) Look at this chart.

4) At your table understand how it works.

5) Report out.

6) At your table, visit sites both far right and left and find language in report that is biased.

7) Report out.

8) Football DBQ scenario

9) Who do you want to hear from?

10) Each person at each table, pick a different witness to "go off" on about their bias.

Other Learning Targets:

I can explain all the parts of the essay and their function.

Future

-The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife

-Football DBQ