Thursday, April 12 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: NOTES TIME!

•You need to keep thinking of the questions on the instructions document I shared with you to get you to the point when you can begin compiling your research into a ‘presentation’ of information

•By 1:15 you need to have notes (what does it say to help answer any of your research questions, does it direct you toward a specific social issue, how connected to the theme, look at the directions for pt. 2 for other questions for notes, etc.) on 2-3 of your sources and you should know the specific social issue that you are going to be focusing on relating to your theme and a list of possible groups to target

•Research Schedule

•Create Questions, at least 8 (we did this on Tuesday)

•Find 5 potential resources by using your questions as starting points

•Read and take notes on 2-3 of your first five sources, getting an overall idea. (THIS IS WHAT I’M CHECKING AT 1:15)  Then continue finding potential resources (aim for 20+)

•Once you have a long list (20+), continue reading your sources, thinking of the big social issue that your theme represents.

•Ex. THEME: People with mental illnesses being misunderstood leading to hardships. Issue: Lack of access to mental health care and impact and stigma

•Take notes while reading as to how your sources give you information about your social issue/theme

•Figure out what group of people most needs the information about this issue and theme, figure out how to best get information out to them

•Ex. Family members? Teens who are facing issues? Politicians?

•Put together a ‘presentation’ of information, bringing social awareness to the issue that you have focused on

•Background on the Holocaust (post to Schoology with person you are sitting next to, then work on quote)

•Read and react to the quote (half a page, in writer’s notebook)

•For many students, Night is their first exposure to Auschwitz…Night grabs the attention of students and never lets go until the end. Like Catcher in the Rye, it is a coming of age story. Like Antigone or Oedipus, it forces students to grapple with universal questions of good and evil. Like 1984 and Brave New World, it asks what kind of society do we live in, what kind of social system have we devised? And above all else, Night asks us to consider what it means to be human." — From Bearing Witness by Beth Aviv Greenbaum

•What do you notice about it/what do you think it means or parts of it? What do you agree with? What confuses you? What are you thinking about the book? Etc. –this answer should be two paragraphs (at least a half page of content)

 Project Explanation