Vocabulary and New Text

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Goal: Get started with vocabulary for our next text, survey the text, and begin reading as a class

Agenda:
Journal
Fact or Opinion
Sorting
Defining Fake News
Vocabulary

1. Journal
How do you feel your start to the quarter has been? Tell me about it.

2. Fact or Opinion
Before we start this next text, we need to agree on a shared definition of a fact and a shared definition of an opinion. This will play a major role as this module progresses.

• Think of a time when you and someone else had different interpretations of the facts of a situation.What facts were being interpreted differently? And by whom?
• What did you do to try to convey your interpretation of the facts?
• Think of a time where you had a difference of opinion with a friend, family member, or other person. In this situation, what did you do to resolve your differences of opinion?

3. Sorting

You are also going to sort different scenarios into facts and opinions. I will give each table strips to sort, and your job is to categorize into facts versus opinions. 

4. What is Fake News?
On post it notes, you are going to write your answers to these questions and we will have our first official class discussion:

5. Vocabulary

• There is a vocabulary table for you to complete in Google Classroom. 
• I suggest using VisuWords to look up words so you can start to see connections these words have to words you already know. 

Reminders:
If you checked out a book from the class library (and took it home with you) make sure you use the button to the right on the blog to check it out. You can also use the QR code posted in class near the library.