Monday March 12, 2024
Vocabulary Words: opportunity cost, esthetics, taboos, values, demographics, culture, aspirational, learned-helplessness, choice(in economics)
Free Reading Book - always have one
Do you have the account? The Humex Bank
Circle: As of today, what career would you like to persue? Where did you place your kid? Cape Elizabeth or Mountain Valley? Why? What is one quality you would look for in a town or community you were thinking of moving to?
Video Note Work and Exemplar: Review the notes you took last week. What is good evidence? Build an exemplar CEW as an entire class
Quick Lessons on note taking and using source evidence
Watch more of The Rivals and take great notes. This will be followed by another writing session.
Exit Ticket: what is your best and most compelling piece of evidence you have gathered so far? What makes the evidence persuasive?
Unit: Rumford or Cape -- Time to Decide
Learning Target: I can use research to make a decision and back up my decision with information.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. Your family will earn $140,000. One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse. This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000. That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape. Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town. Cape Elizabeth High School Mountain Valley High School
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. Your family will earn $140,000. One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse. This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000. That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape. Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town. Cape Elizabeth High School Mountain Valley High School
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.
Unit: Rumford or Cape? The Rivals
Research: We watched the documentary Here are the segments:
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