Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Pass out Folders
Review Blog

Circle: What is the habit you are trying out to improve yourself?
Reminder: Interview a business, job shadow
Purpose for the day.

Activity: Mock Economy Data Analysis (4 people per table)
For your economy essay, one of the sources for information is the Mock Economy.  Today you will look at survey responses to understand what is happened, and what it means.
1) Look at the survey results (10 minutes)
2) Take turns explaining what you see (5 minutes)
3) Take turns explaining what you think it means -- interpretations (5 minutes)
4) Take turns explaining what advice you can come away with to share with others (this will be used in your big economy essay).

Activity: Independent Reading
Target: After completing this unit, you will be able to determine how an author develops a theme in  a literary text.
-Use the template in Classroom to write about the meaning in your book.
-Use this list to understand different values.
-Coming up: Write an essay about your book.

Coming up: Book Essay Summative Assessment
Learning Target: After completing this unit, you will be able to determine how an author develops a theme in  a literary text.
Performance Indicator: The student uses inference to explain the character’s or author’s values and how those values change or become clarified over the course of the book and explain how those changes or clarification develop the book’s theme(s).
Description: You will be given a two more weeks to read a book of fiction.  As you read, you will continually write paragraphs explaining the values of your character. In two weeks, you will write an essay about your character's values.
A Successful Essay will use the your analysis of your character's values -- and hopefully changing values -- to explain the authors message (theme). For example, if your character values fierce independence in the beginning of the book but then later in the values the need to connect with people, that change in values lets you know what the theme is: "While sometimes you think that independence is important, you can't make it in life without connecting to others."

Coming up: The Big Economy Essay
Target: After completing this unit, you will be able to write an essay in which you display your understanding of the competitive nature of a capitalist system.
In two weeks, you will be writing an essay in which you use one of the four following scenarios:

• Write a letter letter to an 8th grader advising them of the competitive nature of what they are getting into and giving them specific advise about how to succeed.
• Write a letter to your future child explaining how to succeed in life.
• Write an essay explaining what decisions you should make based on what you have learned.
• Write an essay explaining where you are going to live and why.

Writing Target to be Assessed:

• Successfully organize your essay to build your arguments.
• Write claims that logically argue your thesis
• Use specific supporting evidence
• Write warrants that fully explain how your evidence supports your claims.

Social Studies Target to be Assessed:

• Use the following vocabulary words correctly in context: economy, opportunity cost, capitalism, choice, scarcity, societal value of the profit motive, surplus value of labor & competition.
• Successfully integrate the following sources as specific examples: Roger & Me, The Rivals, Mock Economy video, Crash Course on Capitalism, Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt, Mr. Morrell's house, Here Comes the Neighborhood, Rumford Demographics and Cape Elizabeth Demographics, interviews with local businesses, your research on Habits of Successful People,