Word of the week
Announcement: Career Project Grades are in. You might want to look.
Circle: What feature would like you house to have when you own one. Also, Morgan will share impressions about the Rumford.
Metaphor Game
Rumford or Cape Unit
Essential Question: Can where you live shape who you become?
Learning Target: In this unit you practice using information from a variety of sources, determining possible biases to determine meaning, then using your conclusions to make a complicated decision.
Review: Where are You Now?
1) What we did: On the back of your child, we wrote down the attributes you want your child to have. Pick from this list of the top ten.
2) What we did: Place your child in the community you think will help them get those attributes.
3) What we did: In the Google classroom, write each attribute you want your child to have and use evidence from your notes to explain how they will learn that attribute.
4) Today: share the most important attribute you would want your child to have, then explain the evidence that your selected town will help develop that attribute.
Do some vocabulary work: Finish making flash cards (we won't be spending much time on this)
Check Your Stocks (If you finish the flash cards)
In There Words: Rumford & Cape Interviews
Learning Target: In this activity you will practice gathering information from spoken interviews to support two sides of an issue.
1) In your notes, make a T-Chart to take notes on the interviews to note arguments that support one side of the issue or another.
2) Pick from these interviews to listen to:
Aaron Filieo -- Head coach for Cape Elizabeth
Jim Aylward -- Head coach for Rumford
Jeff Thoreck -- Athletic Director Cape Elizabeth
Al Cayer -- Athletic Director Rumford Elizabeth
Rumford student interview #1
Rumford student interview #2
Learning Target: You will learn to determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
1) Focus question: What problem does it look like your main character is trying to solve? How will they solve it?
2) Read
3) Write about the focus question.
Saved for Later
Realtor.com: virtual field trip.
1) Look at real estate from Rumord and Cape.
2) Analyze the elements in two photos -- one from each
3) Identify what that might mean.
4) Explain why it matters.
1) The beginning of the article will be read aloud for a period of time.
2) Individually identify passages and quotes that either support your argument or refute it.
3) Share at your table, share out.
4) Repeat.
5) You will read the end of your article on your own. When finished go to #4 if you have time.
-Watch this video about the Verso paper mill closing in Bucksport and take notes on evidence that will help you write your Rumford or Cape Essay. If you finish, go to #5
The Death of the Industry in Maine
Read "The Temperature of Desire" from Ernie's Ark.
Explanation: this story is about a family living in a Maine mill town and how they are torn apart by a strike at the mill.
Vocabulary: strike: when the workers at a factory refuse to work when demanding better pay or working conditions; crossing or crossed or crosses: when a worker goes to work at the mill instead of being on strike; scab: a worker who crosses, "scab" workers are often brought in from other states.
Take notes: character names; anything that relates to the Rumford-Cape decision -- why might moving to a mill town be risky?
Reading: An article, "The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up" in the New York Times about why it matters where you live.
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