Permission slips for the Mark Bittman field trip on Thursday, 20 September were collected. Those students who have not yet turned in their slip should do so on Tuesday.
First period shared the examples of facts from various subject areas of knowledge.
Second and third period students made a list of foods that they had eaten in the last few days. From that list each student choose a "Yeah!" a "meh...." or a "Uck!". This eating experience was the prompt for a short writing assignment. Some students shared their writing.
Students were shown the Table of Contents of Food Matters and asked to make predictions of what the text will cover.
Mr. Zartler reminded the class of SOAPS + Claim
Subject
Occasion
Author / Audience
Purpose
Significance
+ Claim
These are topics to consider when reading non-fiction material such as the excerpts from Food Matters that were handed out in class.
Students were asked consider SOAPS+Claim as they read the introduction to Food Matters; each student received a the introduction and a selection from the beginning of the text. After finishing the reading of the introduction, students are to write a response to the reading. Questions addressed in the response could include:
Does the content match your expectations?
Do Bittman's ideas strike you as right or wrong?
Does the text seem to have anything to offer you?
Does the content address of of the questions you developed last week.
Bring the response to class on Tuesday.
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