---
title: "08.15.07"
date: 2007-08-15
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/08/15/081507/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 08.15.07

Core 1+4:

- 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.)
- Tell our barrier anecdotes.
- Analyzing text by asking questions:  Puddle
- Lake
- Ocean

- Analyze “Dear Students” by asking questions.
- Extensions:

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

Class Notes:

[flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=92238&doc=dear-students-analysis3016]

Core 2+3:

- Introduction of Personal and Classroom Identities.
- 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?

- Extensions:  Write one paragraph of who you are that starts off with “I am…”

Class Notes:

[flash http://s3.amazonaws.com/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=92244&doc=who-are-you-identity3004]