Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

At the beginning of class:
-Review your portal
-Pass out quizzes
-Get your notes and folders ready
-Prepare for mini-presentations: What are we doing in class right now (the big thing) and what academic skills are we learning?

Circle:
TBA

The Things They Carried
Lesson Learning Target: After this exercise, you will be able quickly use evidence from fiction to support a claim.
"Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong"
10 minutes: Work together to find text (evidence) and build arguments (claims) that answers the question, "What does this story say about what war does to people?"
15 minutes: Use the textual evidence from the story to write the longest essay you can in 15 minutes explaining what it is that war does to people.

Unit: Should we go to war with ISIS? [Parts of this unit will be put into the daily agenda]
Unit Learning Target: By the end of the unit, you will be to able use various print and media sources to form an opinion on a complex issue in order to make a reasoned decision.
Essential Question: What should we understand before we go to war?
Description: This unit will be broken down into a series of sub-units with their own questions. With your group, you will be researching and answering questions that will help you decide whether going to war with ISIS is the right thing to do.
Sub-units & Questions

Polling
Lesson Learning Target: After this part of the unit, you will be able to gather poll information and use it to support an opinion.
Question: What do people in the world, the United States and the World think we should do?
Today: Take notes on the results of the polls we took. Question to think about: do you think that the people you talked about know enough to decide what to do?
Resources: 
Period 5 & 6 Poll
Period 7 & 8 Poll

What is it like for the soldiers
Lesson Learning Target: After this part of the unit, you will be able use explain what it's like for soldiers in war.
Question: How does was impact those who have to do the actual fighting?
Resources: 
-Documentary: Restrepo
-ISIS in Afghanistan