Handout #1 Reader’s Writer’s Notebook questions for Week of October 21-25

Handout  # 1  Reader’s Writer’s Notebook questions for Week of  October 21-25

All of these questions are to be answered in your Reader’s Writer’s Notebook by Friday,  October 25th. The guest teacher will collect notebooks on Friday.  No Late notebooks will  be accepted without a doctor’s or IEP teacher note. Dr. Cohen will pick up the Notebooks when she returns from the 10^th grade  Academy of Motion Picture Art’s and Sciences Media Literacy Field trip.

·       Label assignment in  Reader’s/ Writer’s Notebook Table of Contents . ☐

·       Answer the following questions in your reader’s writer’s notebooks: . ☐

·       Write Legibly ☐

 Monday October  22  P2  and P6 complete in class and  Monday P4  begin  in class and complete for homework.

Assignment: Different Perspectives

·       Label assignment in  Reader’s/ Writer’s Notebook Table of Contents . ☐

·       Answer the following Questions in their reader’s writer’s notebooks: . ☐

1.     What do you notice about the different perspectives Lord offers about the events? Explain.

2.     Whose perspective is represented?

a.      Who’s missing?

3.     What do you notice about how and why these people experienced the same event(s) differently?

4.     What does Lord’s choice of people to investigate tell you about his perspective as an investigator of this event?

Do Tuesday   All Classes  (P2, P4, P6)

Assignment:  Direct Quotations and Paraphrasing remarks

Define paraphrase-to express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words or a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.

Students are to answer the following Questions in their reader’s writer’s notebooks:

1.     What’s the difference between paraphrasing a person’s remarks and using direct quotations to represent a person’s remarks?

2.     Locate  3 examples of each in Lord’s text.  Handout post-it notes. ☐

3.     What are the differences between them in terms of the effect on the reader?

4.     Why might Lord have chosen to paraphrase some remarks and directly quote others?

Wednesday is Research/Project Day

 

Do Thursday  October  24 in class All Classes ( P2, P4,  P6)

Assignment:  Lord’s Perspective

Re-read Chapter 7.

Write About Lord’s Perspective in your reader’s writer’s notebook.  

In your Reader’s Writer’s Notebook write a response to the following question:

Throughout most of the book, Lord has kept silent about his own perspective on the sinking of the Titanic.  What does he now appear to be saying about its historical significance? 

Explain using evidence from the text.

When you have finished writing, share your response with a partner/table group.

Examples of Lord’s Statements about the Significance of the Disaster

–p. 91 – “Never again would first class have it so good.  In fact, almost immediately the pendulum swung the other way.”

–p. 91 – “It was easier in the old days . . . for the Titanic was also the last stand of wealth and society in the center of public affection.”

–p. 91 – “Never again did established wealth occupy people’s minds so thoroughly.”

–p. 94 – “With this lost world went some of its prejudices—especially a firm and loudly voiced opinion of the superiority of Anglo-Saxon courage.”

–p. 94 – “But along with the prejudices, some nobler instincts were also lost.  Men would go on being brave, but never again would they be brave in quite the same way.”

Do Friday  October 25^th in class   

Reminder: Notebooks due at end of Period . Captains:  Check that your entire team has turned in.   Check that team member’ s  table of contents is clearly labeled

Assignment: Step Back and Reflect

1. What did you learn by closely examining Lord’s statements?

2.  How might this type of insight help students as they read this and other texts?

Due Monday  October 28^th Homework

Assignment:  Short Constructed Responses Critical Thinking Questions:

Definition of Class-

the system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status.

Example:

"people who are socially disenfranchised ( not allowed to vote) by class"

synonyms:

social division, social stratum, rank, level, echelon, group, grouping, income group;

Answer the following questions. Answers should be about a half page. Remember to write legibly. Be prepared to share your answers with your teams and the class on Monday.

Write legibly.

1. How did the lack of scientific knowledge impact survival on the Titanic? ☐

2. How did one’s economic class impact survival?

3. Does economic class affect access to knowledge or technology today?  What should/could be done about it?