6th period - 17 September 2008

Agenda:
1. Journal
2. Pop Quiz: Myths and Folktales, MLA and Plagiarism, Vocabulary, class procedure.
3. Active Reading: relate to issues in the article.

Journal: "Words" Copy the following to get an idea of 50-word count
".... more districts are making a variety of efforts to go cold turkey, or at least cut back, on their use of paper. Schools are forgoing textbooks for online versions, school board members have laptop computers on the dais instead of thick paper agenda books, and classrooms … are opting for laptops over … binders."

Add to journal: Choose 2 words from the word collage at your tables. Write about these 2 words for 3 minutes. The word collage can be found here.

Active Reading: Article - "Sharing Philosophy with Children"

• When you read the article, you should become involved with it.
• Highlight or underline information that relates to your life or life of a student.
• Make a note in the margins about how it relates to your life.
• What happens if you only highlight but don’t make an note?
• Highlight or underline interesting information or parts you agree (or don’t agree) with.
• Make a note of these in the margins!
• Vocabulary: look for the 5 new words when reading.
• According to the article, what does “educate” mean?
• Does this definition differ from what you think “educate” means?

6th period had time at the end of class to finish actively reading the article. They were to generate 2 insightful questions and write these questions at the end of the article. If they didn't generate questions in class, they were told to go to the blog post "6th period's Insightful Questions" and leave 2 questions as comments. This is due before the beginning of next class.