In class today we prepared for tomorrow's in school field trip to meet with Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
We first considered these questions:
What have you always wanted to ask a Congressman? or What do I know, wonder, or imagine about a US Congressman?
What are my most significant concerns about about food?
I think corn is ___________ because ____________.....
At the end of the class we read and analyzed these two articles as possible points of discussion with Congressman Blumenauer:
Farmers Split Over Subsidies and Oregon Could Ban Genetically Engineered Fish
The rest of class was devoted to checking the model section that was due today. We checked for the following:
Name/ Date/ Period
Appropriate title for the section
Section has a thesis
Introduction relates to thesis working hypothesis.
Introduction mentions the topic of each body paragraph.
Each paragraph has a topic sentence. Each topic sentence connects via a key word to the section thesis.
We labeled the evidence used in the section, then checked that the appropriate "quote pattern" was used to embed and cite the source of the information.
Introduction of quote, " the quote" (citation).
The introduction was checked to ensure it made clear from whom or where the evidence was borrowed.
The explanation following each piece of evidence was checked to ensure that there was a clear connection (through repetition of key words) to the topic sentence of the paragraph.
Students who had model sections with few edits required turned them in. Students who needed to make substantial edits will turn in todays draft along with a revised draft tomorrow at the field trip.
Ms. Margolis will be guest teacher on Monday and Tuesday after break.
We first considered these questions:
What have you always wanted to ask a Congressman? or What do I know, wonder, or imagine about a US Congressman?
What are my most significant concerns about about food?
I think corn is ___________ because ____________.....
At the end of the class we read and analyzed these two articles as possible points of discussion with Congressman Blumenauer:
Farmers Split Over Subsidies and Oregon Could Ban Genetically Engineered Fish
The rest of class was devoted to checking the model section that was due today. We checked for the following:
Name/ Date/ Period
Appropriate title for the section
Section has a thesis
Introduction relates to thesis working hypothesis.
Introduction mentions the topic of each body paragraph.
Each paragraph has a topic sentence. Each topic sentence connects via a key word to the section thesis.
We labeled the evidence used in the section, then checked that the appropriate "quote pattern" was used to embed and cite the source of the information.
Introduction of quote, " the quote" (citation).
The introduction was checked to ensure it made clear from whom or where the evidence was borrowed.
The explanation following each piece of evidence was checked to ensure that there was a clear connection (through repetition of key words) to the topic sentence of the paragraph.
Students who had model sections with few edits required turned them in. Students who needed to make substantial edits will turn in todays draft along with a revised draft tomorrow at the field trip.
Ms. Margolis will be guest teacher on Monday and Tuesday after break.
