08.15.07

Core 1+4:

1. Write-On: Write out one of the anecdotes that made note of in the “Dear Students” essay as a paragraph story. (Describe one of the times you felt a barrier in your life, one of the times that you ignored a barrier that other people have, or one of the times that someone put up a barrier for you.)
2. Tell our barrier anecdotes.
3. Analyzing text by asking questions:
   • Puddle
   • Lake
   • Ocean
4. Analyze “Dear Students” by asking questions.
5. Extensions:

• Write a draft of your answer to your Ocean Question about Barriers.

Class Notes:

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Core 2+3:

1. Introduction of Personal and Classroom Identities.
2. Everything-on:
   • Who are you?
     • What is your identity?
     • When people look at you, what do they see?
     • Where do you come from?
     • Where are you going?
     • What role do you play in your family?
     • What role do you play with your friends?
     • What role do you play at school?
     • What culture are you a part of?
     • How have you changed over time?
     • What big choices have you made that have affected who you are?
     • What are the big events of your life?
3. Extensions:
   • Write one paragraph of who you are that starts off with “I am…”

Class Notes:

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