Poster Presentation Work Day

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. You will continue to work on your posters. You need to be finished by tomorrow. You will present you poster to the class on the Monday we return from break.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #3 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Ethos Pathos Logos

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. I will collect your scripts for your videos from last week.
2. I will read the argument paragraph one more time, and collect your group's reconstruction of the passage to see who came the closest.
3. Activity 12: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
4. Deepening your knowledge activity.
1. You will split into groups of three and read an article together about teenage responsibility.
2. Your group will present the article to the class.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #3 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

3 Levels Day 5

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. To work on your comprehension of a complex text, you will explain it at three levels. To explain something at different levels you have to adjust your language to make it comprehensible to your audience.
1. Today you will create a script for someone your age.
1. You can use more complex vocabulary
2. You can cover more than one topic in your video
3. Your script should be longer than your last one. You will create a paraphrase of the full paragraph for this video. You will also have at least five slides for this video.
2. Next, we will continue to work on our comprehension of complex texts. I will read a text to you three times and give you a different task for each reading.
3. Finally, we will play a vocabulary game with our vocabulary list for this week.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #2 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

3 Levels Day 4

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. To work on your comprehension of a complex text, you will explain it at three levels. To explain something at different levels you have to adjust your language to make it comprehensible to your audience.
1. Today you will create a script for a twelve-year-old
1. You can use more complex vocabulary
2. You can cover more than one topic in your video
3. Your script should be longer than your last one
2. Next, we will play a vocabulary game with our vocabulary list for this week.
3. Finally, we will continue to work on our comprehension of complex texts. I will read a text to you three times and give you a different task for each reading.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #2 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

3 Levels Day 3

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. To work on your comprehension of a complex text, you will explain it at three levels. To explain something at different levels you have to adjust your language to make it comprehensible to your audience.
1. Today you create a screencast of yourself reading your script and present your slides for a five-year-old.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #2 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

3 Levels Day 2

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. To work on your comprehension of a complex text, you will explain it at three levels. To explain something at different levels you have to adjust your language to make it comprehensible to your audience.
1. First we will watch an episode of a series produced by Wired called Five Levels. An expert in her field will explain a complex concept at five different levels.
2. What did the expert do at each level to make the concepts comprehensible to the audience?
3. You will choose a section of the article and rewrite it at three different levels.
1. For a five year old
2. For a twelve year old
3. For a fifteen year old
4. You will create a slide deck with one to three slides for each level.
5. You will record yourself presenting your slides and the text that you wrote.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #2 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

3 Levels Activity

Big Idea: What is the age of responsibility?
Learning Target: Analyze a complex text by paraphrasing it at three different levels.

Agenda:

1. We will practice chunking complex sentences.
1. At 23, police officer Justin McNaull could pursue lawbreakers at 100 MPH but couldn’t rent a car. This is one example of the contradictory, confusing expectations states often place on young people when it comes to age and responsibility.
3. State and local governments contribute to the problem of establishing a single age of responsibility with inconsistent laws, and those laws are being questioned.
4. Choose a complex sentence from the primary source about the open door policy for China.
2. To work on your comprehension of a complex text, you will explain it at three levels. To explain something at different levels you have to adjust your language to make it comprehensible to your audience.
1. First we will watch an episode of a series produced by Wired called Five Levels. An expert in her field will explain a complex concept at five different levels.
2. What did the expert do at each level to make the concepts comprehensible to the audience?
3. You will choose a section of the article and rewrite it at three different levels.
1. For a five year old
2. For a twelve year old
3. For a fifteen year old
4. You will create a slide deck with one to three slides for each level.
5. You will record yourself presenting your slides and the text that you wrote.

1. Homework:

1. Core Academic Vocabulary List #2 It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Writing the Essay

Big Idea: How do rhetorical choices convey an author's meaning?
Learning Target: Annotate a text by identifying the author's rhetorical choices.

Agenda:

1. Fill out the Reading Progress form.
2. You will watch the following videos. Each video will walk you through how to write part of the essay. Take notes on each video. If he shows an example on the screen, make sure you copy it down.
1. Rhetorical Analysis Thesis Statements
2. Rhetorical Analysis Commentary
3. Including quotes in your writing
3. Finally, make sure you read your book for 10 minutes today. You should be done with your current book by March 12th.

1. Homework:

1. Spring Vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Annotating a speech

Big Idea: How do rhetorical choices convey an author's meaning?
Learning Target: Annotate a text by identifying the author's rhetorical choices.

Agenda:

1. Fill out the Reading Progress form.
2. Rhetorical Analysis introduction lecture. Please finish your notes from Monday. You have slides 9,10, and 11 to finish. Write the summary for your notes.
3. Make sure you get a copy of the Caesar Chavez speech about Martin Luther King Jr.
4. You will watch the following videos. Each video will walk you through how to annotate the speech. I will be checking your annotations during Encore when I return.
1. Video 1
2. Video 2
3. Video 3
5. Finally, make sure you read your book for 10 minutes today. You should be done with your current book by March 12th.

1. Homework:

1. Spring Vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.