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READ 211:

Kim Palmore for Kristin SkagerWednesday, 10/9 12:30 – 2:30 L31

+Agenda

Take Roll

Activity 1: Read Chapter 8 of A Distance Between Us.

Free write

Pairs Discussion

Pre-thinking for Activity 2

Activity 2: Read “First, Help Today’s Struggling Youth.”

Drafting an Author’s Thesis or Controlling Idea

Mapping an Article

Activity 3: In-class writing: using words from class

Homework and End Class

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Activity One

Think-Pair-Share

+Chapter 8 from

A Distance Between Us

Please follow along while I read

+Five Minute Free write!

In your opinion, what does the building of the house on Abuela Evila’s property represent for the family? Is it a vision for their future or a “foolish dream?”

+Think

Take a minute to first silently and independently think about your own answer to the question

Now, take a moment to think and write about how this material relates to your own life.

+Pair and Share

Pair: Partner with a person sitting near you

Share: Turn and face your partner so you can discuss your answers face-to-face—or, so you can share your reflections.

Explain clearly to your partner your own answer to the question.

Listen carefully to your partner’s answer, and pay attention to similarities and differences in your answers.

Ask your partner to explain more if you don’t understand or agree with his or her answer.

+Discussion

What does the building of the house on Abuela Evila’s property represent for the family? Is it a vision for their future or a “foolish dream?”

Why do you think so?

Connections: How can you connect this text to your own life?

You

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Activity Two

Finding an author’s thesis and mapping an article

+Discuss this question for one minute

with your partner

There is a growing consensusthat it is harder to move up the economic ladder in the United States than in many other places, like Canada. Should more Americans

consider leaving the U.S. to get ahead?

Or can the U.S. make changes to be more of a “land of opportunity”?

+Discussion

Should more Americans consider leaving the U.S. to get ahead?

Or can the U.S. make changes to be more of a “land of opportunity”?

You

+Divide into 6 groups: Monday

through Saturday!

+Read Aloud: “First, Help Today’s

Struggling Youth”

• Everybody

reads

• Start with the

tallest and

move to the

shortest!

+Work in Groups

Find the thesis of this essay

Use the template that is on page 20 of your student packet.

+Template for Drafting an Author’s Thesis or Controlling Idea

In “____________________________________________________________________,”

(article title)

the author, ,

argues, disputes, contends, maintains, claims, makes a case, reports, reasons, says, writes, finds, realizes, discovers, determines, notices, ascertains, discerns, finds

(circle one)

that _____________________________________________

____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________

(thesis)

Research tells us that only 2 percent of individuals who finish high school, work

full time, and have stable families before having children end up poor, while 72

percent of individuals who do none of these things end up poor.

If we care about equality of opportunity, we should invest in proven programs

that keep young people in school and out of prison.

Yet every year in America more than 1 million youth drop out of high

school, crippling their chance at the American dream. Nearly one in six 16- to

24-year-olds is disconnected from the two structures that offer hope for their

future – school and work. Promoting opportunity means opening multiple

pathways for young people to connect to education, job training, employment

and community service.

John M. Bridgeland, a former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, is president and C.E.O. of the public policy firm Civic Enterprises. He wrote about the Opportunity Nation initiative in November.

+Mapping an Article

Still in your groups, use agraphic organizer to make a map to show the thesis statement and how three major points support it.

Essay Title: “First, Help Today’s Struggling Youth”

+Discussion

What is the topic of this

essay?

What is the thesis statement?

What are three main points

the author makes to support

his thesis?

You

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Activity Three

Writing

+Generate a paragraph (topic of your choice) using

10 of our class words:

Cacophony, serendipity, mundane, ruminate, implacabl

e, poignant, foraging, voracious, staccato, anecdotes, u

biquity, prose, decoder, ideogram, terse, aphorism, rhet

oric, malleable, impoverished, terabyte, algorithms, uti

litarian, sedition, prescient, doomsayers, myriad, skept

icism, digital native, digital

etiquette, conundrum, irksome

+Story Starters

1. The harder she scratched away at her forearm the quicker the flesh fell away. From outside the containment unit, Dr. Elena Miles and Dr. Mark Rustenburg watched on dismay as the...

2. I sat in the taxi fidgeting with my clothes and thinking I'd rather be at home in my flannel pajamas instead of going to...

3. I really wanted to see you again," said Rebecca. She repeatedly twirled a strand of her long auburn hair tightly around her right forefinger until the tip blushed then released it. "I was afraid you didn't want to see me because of…

4. He was lying face down on the raft. At first we thought he was sleeping with his head using the inflated side as a pillow and one hand hanging over grazing the water's edge but then the...

5. It’s hard to describe the sound of ripping fleshing. Even more difficult is the sound the flesh makes when a vampire makes first bite.

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Turn in everything you did in class and Ms. Skager will give you points for your effort.

+Homework

This is also written on your class

outline.

Read “For Some, This is Not a New

Problem” on page 165 of your reader.

Fill out a Main Ideas Chart on page 22.

Read Chapters 9-11 of The Distance

Between Us. Write Focus Exercise #2.

Prepare for Quiz #1 (up to chapter 7)