Essential Question

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: to connect our relationship with food to the world.

Reading: You should be done with your book by Friday.

Agenda:

1. You will read an article about Globalization. You must choose two of the ideas below and follow that idea through the article.
1. Passive (not being active/always waiting for things/prepackaged)
2. Invisible/Hidden (things we don't pay attention to/hidden form our view)
3. Obliviousness (not aware of/ignorant about)
4. Big Business (companies having too much power)
5. Addicted to pleasure (always chasing things that make us feel good in the moment)
6. Overuse of chemicals
7. Sameness (conformity/getting rid of differences)
8. Consumer (always buying/using things up/devouring)
2. Your annotations must identify the topic and explain how it fits.
1. Big businesses during the industrial revolution sent their products all over the world. People
3. We will then participate in an online discussion where you will share what you discovered. Use the following paragraph in your English Journal:
1. The two topics I focused on were...First of all, I found a lot of ideas in the article about Globalization that connected with...(write about the information you annotated for the first topic)...In addition, I was able to find information that connected to the idea of...(write about the information you annotated for the second topic)...Overall, what surprised me the most was...
4. Copy and paste your paragraph from your English Journal to the online discussion. You must reply to two people. In this discussion I want you to practice building on other people's ideas. Use the following sentences frames when you reply:
1. When you wrote...it made me think of...I also noticed...
2. I also noticed that...Another point that supports what you wrote is...

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2
2. Start your new vocabulary list. CLICK HERE.

Finishing One Pager Activity

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: create a visualization of the two articles we have read.

Reading: You should be done with your book by Friday.

Agenda:

1. Finish the one pager activity. Your must do the following:
1. Collect important facts, words, phrases, sentences, and ideas from the reading. These should summarize the primary arguments of the text.
2. You must have drawings that relate to the quotes you chose.
3. You must have quotes from the article.
4. You must have a personal response to the article.
5. Include the Title and Author.
6. It must fill the entire page, use color, and use ink for the written portion.

1. Essential Question Tracker GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2
2. Start your new vocabulary list. CLICK HERE.

One Pager Activity

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: create a visualization of the two articles we have read.

Reading: You should be done with your book by Friday.

Agenda:

1. Start your new vocabulary list. CLICK HERE.
2. Introduce the one pager activity. Your must do the following:
1. Collect important facts, words, phrases, sentences, and ideas from the reading. These should summarize the primary arguments of the text.
2. You must have drawings that relate to the quotes you chose.
3. You must have quotes from the article.
4. You must have a personal response to the article.
5. Include the Title and Author.
6. It must fill the entire page, use color, and use ink for the written portion.

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2

Finsh the King Corn article

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: finish our first read of King Corn

Reading: Enjoy reading your book!

Agenda:

1. New vocabulary unit. CLICK HERE
2. Finish the King Corn article
3. Watch another section of Food Inc. CLICK HERE Start the video where we left off.

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2
2. Work on your vocabulary. Due Monday.

When a Crop Becomes King

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: to understand what the article says, means, and how it matters.

Reading: Enjoy reading your book!

Agenda:

1. New vocabulary unit. CLICK HERE
2. Read the article by Michael Pollan with a partner. PAPER
1. Read one section silently
2. Fill in the chart together
3. Repeat
3. You might not finish today.

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2
2. Work on your vocabulary. Due Monday.

Challenging the Author

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: questioning the claims in "The Pleasures of Eating"

Reading: Enjoy reading your book!

Agenda:

1. New vocabulary unit. CLICK HERE
2. Questioning Wendell Berry's article. PAPER
3. Thinking critically about Berry's article ETHOS-PATHOS-LOGOS on GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2
2. Work on your vocabulary. Due Monday.

Friday

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: questioning the claims in "The Pleasures of Eating"

Reading: Enjoy reading your book!

Agenda:

1. Analyzing Stylistic choices GOOGLE CLASSROOM
2. Questioning Wendell Berry's article. PAPER

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2

First Read of The Pleasures of Eating

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: reading and understanding "The Pleasures of Eating"

Reading: Enjoy reading your book!

Agenda:

1. Finish our first close read of the Wendell Berry article.
2. Debrief about the ideas that confirm or challenge your thinking.
3. English Journal: Noticing Lanuage. We will use one of Berry's sentences to create our own.

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2

The Pleasures of Eating

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: reading and understanding "The Pleasures of Eating"

Reading: Fill out the READING PROGRESS UPDATE FORM

Agenda:

1. Survey about how to do vocabulary. GOOGLE FORM
2. Survey the text and make predictions. TEXT GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Homework:

1. Read your independent reading book. Due date is Feb. 2

Sub Day: Watch the Video Below

Library Day!

Our Relationship with Food

Essential Question: What does our relationship with food reveal about us, and our relationship with the world?

Goal: to become aware of your relationship with food.

Reading: Tomorrow we will go to the library to check out books.

Agenda:

1. Open the English Journal document for Semester 2. GOOGLE CLASSROOM
1. Write down, to the best of your ability, what you eat on an average day from sun-up to the last thing you have to eat at night.
2. Fill out this Google Form. What are your food habits?
3. Shopping activity. grocery.walmart.com
4. Online discussion using GOOGLE CLASSROOM I will assign you a random partner to reply to.

Homework:
None

Welcome Back!

Essential Question: What is your one word for the second semester?

Goal: to choose one word that will guide you through this semester

Reading: Speed date books today. You will need a new book by next week.

Agenda:

1. Speed date books for two minutes.
2. One word challenge on GOOGLE CLASSROOM. Make sure you get the new code.
1. 2ccv6zo

Tomorrow and Wednesday we will be doing the iReady mid-year checkup. All you need to do is show improvement!

Homework:
1. Find your new book!