Today, the 24th, students began with a Right Now Activity, watching CNN student news and taking bullet-style notes. Students were prompted to write in their notes that which they would need to re-tell the story.
In pairs, students read aloud their partner about the lifestyle of the Cherokee and other Southeast groups. Students then used Ven Diagrams to compare this tribe with others we have learned about. We also added on this new region to our Indian regions maps. HW tonight-- Read about Eastern woodland cultures and Southwest farming cultures and compare using an organizer.
We have a formal research paper in our near future. Tomorrow in class, we will be looking at the requirements of the project and example thesis topics. Our opening activity will be a journal writing prompt linking environment with Indian culture. We will have a wealth of media center materials in class for students to browse through as they brainstorm choose a topic for the upcoming paper.
Wednesday, the 26th begins 2 weeks of every other day media center visits to research and write the papers. Media center staff will be re-teaching Noodle Tools and Inspiration software and students will begin finding information. I hope in this project, students will practice extrapolating information from expository text sources. That is why we have been working on note-taking skills this past week.
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Mr, Wells