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Monday, January 20, 2014

Stations - LASS7 for the week starting 012114

Station - Week of January 21 - 24, 2014 
(Handout of this page - here)

1 - Personal Essay Reading - 

  • Read the excerpt “Me and Bob Hope” From Funny in Farsi aloud as a group.


  • Discuss the following questions as a group before individually writing a paragraph responding to these questions --

    • Put yourself in her shoes- how would you feel about Christmas if your culture/religion didn’t have a similar celebration? Why does she feel excluded? Cite at least 1 example from the reading.
    • Has there ever been a time where you felt out of place or excluded from a group? How did it make you feel?
2 - Grammar - Thesis, Arguments, and supporting arguments.
  • Materials - handouts: 3-33, 3-36, 3-37
  • As a group complete the two of the individual exercises. Some students may choose to do all three activities - the third activity is worth 5 XC points in LA. 
  • Give each other feedback as you work. 
  • Once you are finished, decide which one topic that your group could debate, with about half of the group debating the other half. 
  • What would this debate look like - 
  • as a group write a summary of this mock debate.
3 - SS7 - Text - Chapter 8
Reading. Group task with rotating jobs. Reading divided up into fifths. For each section, each person completes one task. For each following section, each person rotates to a new task each person must complete for the next section.

Summarizer - record clearly stated, explicit information from the story.
Inference Recorder - connect the different pieces of information to find suggested or implicit ideas.
Illustrator - draw pictures of ideas and images as they are presented in the story.
Question Generator - write down questions that come up during the reading, and about the piece of reading overall up to the end of the section from the beginning.
Reader and coach - Read the piece to the group out loud. Help each person complete his or her tasks.

4 Video Clip - National Geographic: Islam
1. Take 10 notes from the video.
2. Write down the ending time where your group stopped.

5. Isearch Activity -
  • Note Format handout here
  • use the note format handout to take all of your notes. 
  • Create a Gdoc text file in the shared Isearch folder for your notes. 
    • Do not print unless specified.
  • Fill out the form as completely as possible for one idea from a specific source
    • All notes must use the same format.
  • Ultimately, you must use a minimum of 
    • 3 books (or add 3 additional news articles for each book not found)
    • 5 news story articles, and 
    • 7 websites as different sources.








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