Teens and the News: Say Something Protocol and Annotation - 13 March and 14 March 2020

Today's Goal: How has teen use of social media affected the way that current events are spread and consumed?

The Plan:

1. Read! (And copy and paste your ELA Journal entry)
2. "Teenagers are rewriting the rules of the news" article 
3. Say Something Protocol
4. ELA Journal
5. If there's more time, it's a good time for catch-up work.

Homework/Reminders

• Finish ELA Journal work if incomplete. There are FOUR entries from March so far, including today. Make sure you have all four completed.
• 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

Say Something Protocol

You're going to practice ANOTHER reading technique called the Say Something Protocol using the article "Teenagers are rewriting the rules of the news".

The short directions are in the picture above. 

You will have sentence frames you can use at your table. These stay in the classroom. Please be nice to them and handle them as little as possible. Because GERMS.

Here are the VERY SPECIFIC steps for today's tasks:

1. Write your name and period at the top.
2. Write your purpose for reading at the top: How has teen use of social media affected the way that current events are spread and consumed? 
3. Number the paragraphs with Ms. Black
4. Make predictions with your partner based on the title and the FOUR headings throughout the article.
5. Read IN CHUNKS (of like 3-ish paragraphs) to your partner out loud.
6. After each section, STOP, talk with your partner about what you read. You BOTH have to talk. You have to say NEW THINGS when you talk, and you cannot do the thing where you read the whole thing and talk about it at the end. It defeats the purpose of practicing discussing the smaller parts of the text as you come to them. You don't have to write yet. Just talk.
7. After you finish, go back and work with your partner to highlight THREE pieces of evidence that show how teen use of social media has affected the way that current events are spread and consumed.
8. For each of those, you must write a note in the margin that explains why this evidence is an important piece of evidence.
9. In your ELA Journal, write a RACE paragraph that answers the question: How has teen use of social media affected the way that current events are spread and consumed? 

Here's a new thing you have to do when you write your RACE paragraph:
On the back wall of the classroom is a chart that says "Using Strong Verbs in Argument." You must use this chart today when you write your RACE paragraph. HOW?!?!?

Here's how: When you use evidence you need three things:

What I need you to focus on today, other than making sure you have the author's last name in parentheses, is using a strong verb in your introductory phrase. You cannot use the word "states" or the word "says" today.

Here's the list:

So you could write things like:

• the reporters discovered,
• the article challenges,
• the writer focuses,
• the teenagers question,
• the research indicates,
• [name] believes,
• [name] reflects,

These are just examples, not suggestions. Picking one of these may not be correct for the evidence you use.

Ready for Catch-Up Time?

• Make sure all four ELA Journal entries are done.
• Get your SOAPSTone homework turned in ASAP.
• Make sure you did your NoRedInk and your CommonLit
• Triple check that Ms. Black has your This I Believe video because she's missing a bunch.