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Article posted May 24, 2012 at 10:06 PM GMT0 •
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May 30, 2012
Dear Family
In SpringBoard Level 3, Unit 4: Voice and Challenges, students study narrative texts about the Holocaust to explore the importance of effective communication. As students grapple with significant challenges from the past represented in fiction and nonfiction accounts, they will learn speaking and listening skills essential for meaningful discussion to arrive at a deep understanding of difficult concepts.
In this unit, two essential questions are asked to focus students’ attention. Students answer these questions through the activities in the unit and reinforce/ review them again at the end of the unit.
- How can one person make a difference when encountering a social challenge?
- How do people communicate effectivelyR
Real-world applications: In this unit, students study an allegory to begin their in-depth exploration of Holocaust narratives. An allegory is a story that has a meaning beyond the surface level. Students will participate in reading groups called Literature Circles, which allows them to practice their communication skills and to learn what it means to have an effective discussion. An effective discussion takes place when participants are prepared and committed to the topic. Groups will discuss examples of euphemism, an inoffensive expression substituting for one that is considered too harsh or blunt, as a way to analyze how language is related to the author’s message or theme. Students will independently discuss their analyses of a book as they use prepared talking points to engage in a book club discussion in front of their peers.
Later in the unit, students transition to thinking about challenges in today’s society by studying quotations, magazine articles, research, and media through which they analyze how people have made a difference in their world. They will have the opportunity to select an issue of personal interest and collaboratively create a plan of action to make their voices heard. They will create an informational/persuasive campaign and use the most effective media channel (i.e., newspaper, television, Internet, radio) to reach their target audience and convey the action they want their audience to take.
Students learn academic vocabulary by using words specific to the unit activities. They also revisit these words at the end of the unit to describe how their knowledge of each word has grown. To support your child in learning this vocabulary, you may want to set aside time to discuss terms and your child’s understanding of those terms.
You can help your child during Unit 4 by discussing the concepts in this letter. You might ask your child to describe how to engage in an effective discussion and to have meaningful conversations about topics from the narrative they are reading. You might ask questions about the challenges she or he sees in society today and help brainstorm possible solutions.
Throughout this unit, students will closely read and analyze historical narratives. As students communicating with a clear position that is supported by evidence and research, they are practicing the kind of communication skills that will be required of them in future English/Language Arts classes.
Sincerely
Dan Stockwell
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Article posted April 20, 2012 at 03:51 PM GMT0 •
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Magazine check list
Cover:
Eye catching picture, painting, or photo
Photo credits, Mat, Border, related to title
Bold, Title related to picture- large font size: Not crowded,Related font style
Company name
Format of magazine: Date, Price, Bar code
Featured story/article titles: “Pulling you in” Description of articles. Exciting verbs, snazzy adjectives: Lures you in, Catches your attention
Design: Not be crowded-Colors? Depends on audience
Master the possibilities
Preview of contents, Interviews, Mini maps, Multiple pictures, Surveys, Statistics, Prizes, Coupons, Special offers or contest, Celebrities, Table of contents, Website links, Contest
Back side: Big Ol’ Advertisemen(s)
Advertisement- related to magazine
Which technique will you use? (demographic positioning, emotion plea, problem/solution, reasons, symbolic, visual story, exaggeration, testimonial, personification, direct response, something for nothing, avante garde, facts and figures, weasel words, snob appeal, wit and humor, card stacking, glittering generalities, bandwagon, or fear tactics.
Organized- Easily read font
Bold titles
Websites- depending on Advertisement visual display of data (optional)
Quotes from experts to add importance (optional)
Graphs, maps, statistics illustrating mathematically or scientifically (optional)
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Article posted April 20, 2012 at 03:51 PM GMT0 •
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March 9th
Article posted April 9, 2012 at 11:17 PM GMT0 •
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by your self-
Delany, K. "New Grooves for Creatures of Habit." New York Times. Yucatan.com. 30 March 2012.
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Print. 3 April 2012.
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Exit Projects- Visual- outline- note cards- multiple intelligences
Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). Once again, it is necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the original source. Summaries are significantly shorter than the original and take a broad overview of the source material.
With a partner or by yourself...
1. Looking at the article again... answer the following questions
Who? Who are the primary or most important characters? Who are the secondary characters? Who participated? Who is affected?
What? What is the topic of the lesson? What is its significance? What is the problem? What are the issues? What happened?
Where? Where did the event occur? Where is the setting? Where is the source of the problem?
When? When did the event occur? When did the problem begin? When is it most important?
Why? Why did the event, issue, or problem occur? Why did it develop the way it did?
How? How is the lesson, problem, or issue important? How can the problem be resolved? How does it affect the participants or characters identified in the Who question?
2. Write a 20-25 word summary: ___________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why did the author write the article?____________________________________________________________________________
4. Write down a one sentence idea, thought, reaction, or response to the article.
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Article posted April 9, 2012 at 11:17 PM GMT0 •
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28 March 2012
Article posted March 28, 2012 at 02:22 PM GMT0 •
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March 28, 2012
Entry Task: Think about what action or solution to your media issue? To be in your conclusion paragraph
Grade printouts to be signed
Rough Draft!
Rubric- and test on Back-
Please fill in
How does might the Media Affect Teenagers
Third Body Paragraph
Focus:
Topic Sentence
Facts, Details, Anecdotes, Stories,
Commentary of why details are important
Transition
Work Period
IN TEXT=http://=http://=http://=http://!
…As a matter of fact, in 2010 alone, companies spent around 309 billion dollars on advertisements displaying their merchandise to the public (eMarketer, 2011)….
AT END OF ESSAY_
Bibliography
eMarketer. US Advertising Spending. 2011. 6 March 2011
1. IDENTIFY THE TOPIC OF A PIECE
To find clues to topic:
a) Look at the title.
b) Look at the first and last paragraph—the topic is usually named.
c) Ask yourself: What is discussed throughout the whole selection? What subject spreads across the whole text?
d) Look at captions, pictures, words in bold, headings, and so forth for clues to topic. What do all of these have in common?
e) Remind yourself: The topic must include all the major details and events from the selection.
Caution: Not every detail has something to do with the topic. The topic is the common element or connection between major details.
f ) What do all major details share in common?
Check Yourself: It’s Not the True Topic if…
a) It’s too general or too big. (Topic statement suggests or could include many ideas not stated in the text.)
b) It’s off the mark, totally missing the point.
c) It only captures one detail, rather than all of the key details.
d) It captures only some of the details, for example, maybe you didn’t think about the ending.
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Article posted March 28, 2012 at 02:22 PM GMT0 •
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27 March 2012
Article posted March 28, 2012 at 02:20 PM GMT0 •
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March 27, 2012
Entry Task: Rubric- and test on Back-
Please fill in top 8 lines
Grade printouts to be signed
Rough Draft!
Rubric- and test on Back-
Please fill in top 8 lines- sentences and words
How does might the Media Affect Teenagers
Third Body Paragraph
Focus:
Topic Sentence
Facts, Details, Anecdotes, Stories,
Commentary of why details are important
Transition
Work Period
IN TEXT=http://=http://=http://=http://!
…As a matter of fact, in 2010 alone, companies spent around 309 billion dollars on advertisements displaying their merchandise to the public (eMarketer, 2011)….
AT END OF ESSAY_
Bibliography
eMarketer. US Advertising Spending. 2011. 6 March 2011
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Article posted March 28, 2012 at 02:20 PM GMT0 •
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March 26th
Article posted March 26, 2012 at 02:34 PM GMT0 •
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March 26, 2012- Spirit Week PJ Day
Entry Task: SSR 10 minutes- Log on and read
Summarizers:- Back room- Fill in Sheet
Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including onlythe main point(s).
Summaries include:
Main ideas, crutial details, heart of matter, concise, key words, reduce information, brief
Who? Who are the primary or most important characters?
What? What is the topic of the lesson? What is its significance? What is the problem?
Where? Where did the event occur? Where is the setting? Where is the source of the problem?
When? When did the event occur? When did the problem begin?
Why? Why did the event, issue, or problem occur?
How? How is the lesson, problem, or issue important? How can the problem be resolved?
How Does Media Affect Teenagers:
Buff Colored Paper- read check off list-
Focus:
Topic Sentence
Facts, Details, Anecdotes, Stories,
Commentary of why details are important
Transition
Work Period : How Does Media Affect you
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Article posted March 26, 2012 at 02:34 PM GMT0 •
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March 25
Article posted March 23, 2012 at 03:04 PM GMT0 •
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Please register for your high school classes!!
March 23, 2012Entry task- answer the 3 “purple bulleted? Questions:
(1)Alone, different, surrounded by people cheerfully chatting with friends, Jimmy John needs more friends, and if only he would have bought Proactive and that Door’s, retro graphic t-shirt at Old Navy, he would be happy.
(2)An investigation of the teenager’s buying habits reveal two challenging ideas: students are greatly influenced by the perfect human images and media takes advantage of the basic human need to belong.
- Is the hook (1) or (2)?
- Is the Thesis Statement (1) or (2) ?
- Which of the following is the best sentence to be placed in an introductory paragraph about the above thesis and hook?
A. I will tell you why the media impacts teen agers.
B. I will state 2 reasons why the advertisers use emotion wounds to gouge money out of the pockets of teenagers.
C. The media manipulates the basic human desires to be accepted to extort money out of vulnerable teen agers.
D. I will show you the various methods why teenagers are vulnerable to attacks by advertisers.
Please log onand read while the laptops and desktops are loading,
Then :
Please Google: Media- youth and key words in your thesis statement + Statistics or Data- Media youth self image statistics
While you work- Stockwell will come around and þ check if you have your:
Thesis statement
Definition of this assignment
Checklist
Or are you organized?
please save a rough draft which shows editing!
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March 19th
Article posted March 19, 2012 at 05:11 PM GMT0 •
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Your assignment is to write a reflective paper about your relationship with the media. In your essay, identify a particular problem that you or someone else finds in the media.
1. Explain your personal feelings about or experiences with the problem, and
2. Offer some type of solution or action that you or others could take to addresses the problem.
3. Be sure to consider paraphrasing or quoting some information from one or more of the secondary sources you read during the unit to give your ideas support. Be sure to use facts, statistics, stories, details as support your thesis statement.
Drafting
Compose a thesis statement for your paper that includes the problem you have encountered (or someone could encounter) in the media and your suggestion for what should be done to solve the problem.
Create a first plan of your essay. Logically organize the required elements, including a clear analysis of your own use of media, a reflection on the way that one aspect of the media has negatively affected you (problem), and a solution to the problem.
Be sure that your essay includes a compelling introduction, perhaps beginning with a hook in the form of a question, a quote, a personal event, a statistic, or a startling or interesting fact.
Introduction: a catchy hook (Grab your audience’s attention). Media is much like Aliens descending upon us to vacuum independence and money from innocent and trusting people.
Add your thesis statement- how do you feel and will “prove” about the media?
The intense saturation of media is overwhelming and paralyzing to me, and we need to be aware the advertising machine so we can become savvy consumers.
Add any major ideas to be covered by your paper
Due to the huge amount of money spent for extensive researching, theses aliens know our weak spots. I try to compare, think about my real needs, and read consumer reports .For example, I always wear my iPod when I am shopping at Fred Meyers so I can concentrate on the objects that I am buying, not be distracted or even worse by the horrible media onslaught and specials they announce.
Finish your introduction paragraph
Transition: connect the intro and 1st topic paragraph
What is your first topic?
Give the topic sentence,
Add details or facts, and then
Cite your facts
Commentary to explain the details and the fact’s impact on you.
Transition: connect the 1st and 2nd paragraphs
What is your second topic
Give the topic sentence,
Add details or facts, and then
Cite your facts
Commentary to explain the details and the fact’s impact on you.
Transition: connect the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs
What is your third topic? (if needed)
Give the topic sentence, (If needed)
Add details or facts, and then
Cite your facts
Commentary to explain the details and fact’s impact on you.
Transition: connect the 3rd and conclusion paragraphs
Restate your thesis statement
Add any lasting thoughts-
Add zingers
Add last memorable commentary to explain media’s impact on you.
Embedded Assessment
Thesis statement
Brainstorm-
Interview questions
Springboard book
Research- yours
Notes - any source
Your emotions, brain, logic, ethics.
Work Ethic & VOICE
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Article posted March 19, 2012 at 05:11 PM GMT0 •
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Article posted March 12, 2012 at 04:56 AM GMT0 •
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American kids will see an average of nine minutes and 14 seconds of commercial advertisements per hour while watching Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on a Saturday morning.
Possible Impact?
At age of six months, when babies are first saying mama… They are also forming the mental images of corporate logos..McDonald’s golden ($$$$) arches….
Possible Impact?
Babies are forming Brand Loyalty at age of 2…
Possible Impact?
At age of 3, before they can read, they are asking for specific brands...
Possible Impact?
“children and adolescents are attractive consumers: teenagers spend $155 billion/year, children younger than 12 years spend another $25 billion, and both groups influence perhaps another $200 billion of their parents' spending per year” (Quart, page 111)
Quart A. Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers. Cambridge, MA: Perseus; 2003
338,000,000,000 dollars ÷ 900,000 brands to sell= fierce competition
Scary: Research has shown that young children—younger than 8 years—are cognitively and psychologically defenseless against advertising. How many have you
$15-17 billion is spent by companies advertising to children in the US. Over $4 billion was spent in 2009 by the fast food industry alone.
Violence in video games is a subject that has become a hot topic. Some feel there should be more regulation of violence in video games. Some have called for banning violent games for children. In California a board of censors has been proposed and the Supreme Court of the United States recently heard arguments for and against creating a censorship bureau.
The case turns of whether video games are protected under the 1st Amendment and whether that protection should be suspended in favor of protecting children from violent video content.
The ruling will be an important ruling for an industry that is larger than the Television and Movie industries in America. $$$
“Personally, I would rather not see the government censor for the sake of children.
Parents are supposed to censor for their children and expecting the government to babysit our children is lazy, irresponsible and far more dangerous than the violence contained within the video games.” Parents like to pass the buck.
It’s easy to tell a child “Sorry, the law makes it illegal to buy that game for you”. It’s not so easy to say “I don’t think that game is suitable for someone your age”. We always like to blame someone else for depriving children…
The biggest difference between violence in video games and TV / movies is that the violence in a game is controlled by the player. In the player’s mind, he or she is committing the act of violence. In a show or movie, the viewer is not a participant in the violence, they are a spectator. Games are great because of their “immersiveness” and that is also what some feel makes them more dangerous than seeing violence on TV or in a movie.
radio, magazines, newspapers, film, podcasts, web pages, blogs, phone, iPod, video games, movies, TV Shows, music, music videos, bus inside, cars, billboards, brand clothes kids wear = media channels
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Article posted March 12, 2012 at 04:56 AM GMT0 •
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March 6th Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Snowy March 6th
Entry task SSR- 10 minutes-
Hand back work
Check in 2 paragraphs due today
Springboard books
On a piece of paper:
Take facts on page 103- (use # symbol to denote source)
# non fiction texts
# develop logical arguments
# Critical consumer of media
On back of paper:
Write down MLA citation information
Last name, First name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
# N.A. Springboard: English textual power, level 3. USA. College Board. 2011. Print
Essential Questions
How does commercialism impact daily life?
How does research enhance the ability to persuade?
Page 138 – analyze and use active board…
Thesis statement
Page 212 thesis statement- paraphrase- write down..
Page 107-108 if time..
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