USO Activity
Update your Job Shadow Survey if necessary
Circle: One thing you've heard from the recordings.
Metaphor Game
Vocabulary Quiz: Wednesday!
Check Your Stocks
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.
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.
Today you will be making the decision about where to live and raise your son. It is a tough decision because you want what is best for your son as well as your family, now and in the future. You will need to weigh all the factors about about the advantages and disadvantages to living in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. What kind of person do you want your son to become? What kind of football player do you want him to be? Which community gives your son and family the best chance at happy life and have the values you want them to have.
1) Work individually to identify reasons for and against your decision. For example: "One reason to to move to Rumford is that Jim Aylward teaches sportsmanship."
2) Turn and talk, sharing reasons.
3) Cold call, sharing reasons.
4) Select several reasons for and against.
5) Identify, on your own, evidence you can use to support each one. Leave those blank you can't figure out.
6) Turn and talk to find evidence you couldn't identify on your own.
7) Review product descriptor for the essay (in Classroom).
8) Write the essay.
Unit: Thinking and Writing About Fiction
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.
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