Expository Reading and Writing
ASSIGNMENTS
Monday - LABOR DAY - NO CLASS
Objective:
Activity :
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Homework:
Tuesday -
Objective: Students will learn and practice careful
reading techniques.
Activity : quiz on Friday's homework. Submit your diet observations
for log-in. Careful reading and discussion of Brownlee and as time allows
Barboza using annotation (responding and summarizing)
Information - Vocabulary in texts. Annotating
(responding to and summarizing the text)
Homework: Begin to research the caloric value
of your own diet for a day.
Wednesday -
Objective: Students
will practice predicition and questioning to new texts.
Activity : A reading of Weintraub using prediction, vocabulary identification,
questioning and annotation. Individuals predict, track vocabulary, identify
main ideas, question the text and annotate; group members share finding; class
discusses.
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Thursday -
Objective: Students
will identify vocabulary and learn words they do not know.
Activity : Activities five and ten from the student version of FAST
FOOD.
Information - How reading texts, annotating and
vocabulary fit in with writing about ideas and texts.
Friday -
Objective:
Activity :A reading of Zinczenko using prediction, vocabulary identification,
questioning and annotation. Individuals predict, track vocabulary, identify
main ideas, question the text and annotate; group members share finding; class
discusses.
Information - How to cite and list works we use
in our writing.
