“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of being.” – John Wooden
Learning Objective: Students will be able to synthesize information about the role of sugar in our lives from two articles and an infographic
Featured Skill: Synthesis
Other Key Skills: word choice, key ideas, inference, compare and contrast, tone, text structure
Vocabulary: accumulate, luxury, palatable, plethora, remedy, smuggle
Essential Questions:
- How and why have our diets changed over time?
- What obstacles prevent us from being healthy?
| Monday |
- SOAR (Students Own and Appreciate Reading)
- Scope Video
- Read “This Cupcake is Trying to Hurt You” with Close-Reading Questions
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| Tuesday |
- Students create Kahoot quizzes to review Scope articles
- Play student-created Kahoot quizzes
- Partners complete synthesis activity
- RACE – Critical thinking questions with text evidence
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| Wednesday |
- Create and play student Kahoot quizzes
- Quiz over Scope articles
- How to write a summary
- Read Newsela article of student choice and write a one-paragraph summary
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| Thursday |
- SOAR (Students Own and Appreciate Reading)
- Collection 1 Unit Test
- Cite text evidence to analyze what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
- Analyze the interaction of elements in a work of literature (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot)
- Analyze how plot elements contribute to a story’s meaning
- Analyze the development of two or more central ideas over the course of a text
- Determine an author’s perspective or purpose in a text
- Use context clues to determine the meanings of words
- Demonstrate command of English grammar and usage
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| Friday |
- SOAR (Students Own and Appreciate Reading)
- Finish Collection 1 Unit Test
- Library
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