November 29, 2012

Couch Potatoes:

AM: Brandon, Summer, and Aiden

PM: Tristan, Zane, and Bailey

November 29, 2012

Study for your vocabulary quiz! We will show mastery in 5 minutes!!

http://vimeo.com/15508042

Read through your part of how a bill becomes a Read through your part of how a bill becomes a law…paraphrase it in your groups, write it neatly on law…paraphrase it in your groups, write it neatly on the white paper provided and build a giant flow map!the white paper provided and build a giant flow map!

Bathroom Break!Bathroom Break!

I know…I know…They are They are havinghaving

a terrible year,a terrible year,but I still love but I still love

them!them!

Dying to Play: How one player’s tragic

concussion is changing the world of teen sports.

“Head Trauma” By Lauren Tarshis

(Scope, October

No matter how much you love the game…injuries are a part of it.

Do you think concussions are a serious problem in teen sports? Why or why not?

Do you think it is possible to avoid the possibility of a consequence of a concussion?

http://video.scholastic.com/services/player/bcpid1842760475?bctid=1174219184001

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/04/21/drew.football.injury.hln.cnn#/video/bestoftv/2011/04/21/drew.football.injury.hln.cnn

Before Reading: Find the following text features and identify them…

•Underline all the Title•Put a square around all captions•Circle any quotes from experts, graphs, pictures, maps, etc.•Explain on the back side of your article (blank side) how you think the text features will help in the understanding of this article.

During Reading: Read the subtitle, or heading, of each section…

Underline all subtitles and after reading each section summarize what it is mainly about. Remember the following things about summarizing a nonfiction article:

•Who/What is the passage mostly about? (topic or subject) •What is important about the topic or subject? •When does this take place? •Where does this take place? •Why is the topic or subject important?

•How does this occur?

After Reading: think about how the following important areas which add to the author’s purpose…

•What are facts you did not know about injuries in sports?

•Consider again what the author’s purpose was for writing this article. Did she achieve her purpose?

•How does the text structure aid her in her objective?

•What else comes to mind, or connections your brain makes, because of this article?

Think about “How a Bill Becomes a Law.”

What did you learn in this article that relates to how a bill becomes a law?

Discuss with your table…

What other important issues can you come up with that we need someone to champion a bill into a law?

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