TED Talks and SOAPSTone - 11 March and 12 March 2020

Today's Goal: 
How does screen time positively or negatively affect people’s mental and/or physical health? (R.I.6)


The Plan:

1. Read!
2. TED Talks (see below)
3. SOAPSTone (you'll get a paper copy)

Homework/Reminders

• FINISH SOAPSTone notes
• Finish ELA Journal work if incomplete 
• No Red Ink "Fragments and Quotes"
• due Friday, 13 March, 4pm
• if it is completed after 4pm, it will be marked late and you will lose some credit.
• CommonLit Article of the Week
• "Marley Dias: The 13-Year-Old Activist & Author"
• 5 Assessment Questions - due Friday, 20 March, 4pm
• There is a link on Google classroom or you can log in with Google here

TED Talks AND SOAPSTone

Today you get the opportunity of CHOICE OMG. 

Directions:

You will choose TWO TED Talks to watch today. One must come from the first list, and one must come from the second list. While you watch (and after), you will fill out a set of SOAPSTone notes for each of the videos. You may work alone or with a partner, but if you work with someone, you just have to be watching the same video.

LIST ONE:

• Technology - A Tool for Good or Evil
• 3 fears about screen time for kids — and why they're not true
• A delightful way to teach kids about computers

LIST TWO:

• Why you should quit social media
• How Social Media Makes us Unsocial
• Is Social Media Hurting your Mental Health?
• Why our screens make us less happy

Some of these have transcripts so you can read along. You can see the transcripts on the TED website. If the link is on YouTube, please make sure you turn on the Closed Captioning so you can read along. At some point, you will need to write down some evidence from the text, so I suggest you be prepared for that.

Okay great, but what is SOAPSTone?

SOAPSTone is a reading (and writing) strategy to help clarify the ideas and purpose of any text, whether it is one that you are reading or writing. When we practice "Marking the Text", we are looking at smaller chunks of the text. When we analyze with SOAPSTone, we are looking at the the text as a whole so that we can identify purpose and meaning OVERALL.

We are going to use it as a way to practice analyzing these videos and you will get notes to work with. The picture above walks through all of the words and what they mean!

If you need words that you could use for TONE, you could click here

You must turn these notes in at the end of class.