October 11, 2019

Periods 1 and 2:

Objective: understand multiple stances and entry points to an issue AND learn to engage in conversation with a text

Using NY Times: Room for Debate, you received one of FIVE texts. Your job was to become an expert on YOUR text.  I asked you to read the text once, quickly, on your own. UNDERLINE lightly anything that catches your attention because it:
supports… [believe];
challenges… [doubt];
extends… [transforms];
your thinking about gender-based toys.

1. How Did Toys Get Stereotyped by Sex?:

2. Toy Makers are Listening to Consumers About Gender Options

3. Start with the Male-Dominated Management of Toy Companies

4. Parents Should Stand by what Their Child Really Wants

5. Girls Want to Save the Day, Too

Next, you moved to a larger, expert grouping with people who have the same article for another reading of the text. In your discussion there, you:

- Considered SOAPSTone;

- What is the argument made? How is it supported?;

- Where does credibility come from?

In the end, you used this note chart (copied/pasted into your notebook) to learn from each other at your tables.

Periods 3 and 4:
Today, we held a "Fake Meat Symposium". Everyone prepared and participated from their assigned role.

Present or not, please respond to the exit slip on the Classroom ASAP.

Period 6:
Objective: Read, understand, and note-take on chapter one, The Pearl.

To begin class, we had ten minutes to turn in homework (the Family Crest) and to review the rest of yesterday's introduction to Mexican culture. You should have already compared the two perspectives of the Spanish conquest.

Make sure you copy and paste the note chart HERE. You will need this for CHAPTER 1 of The Pearl.

To the left, you will find the audio for Chapter 1 for you if you are absent. YOU ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE READ THIS BY TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.