Weeks of December 15, 2014 & December 22, 2014

2A-06  TITLE IX: Preventing Discrimination Against girls and Women in Sports and Education
resources -- inequity -- illustrate -- adequate -- disproportionate

Achieve Readings 

35.  Chile Has its First Woman President Ever -- Listening for Main and Supporting Details
36.  Is this Law Fair?  -- Cite Evidence
37.  Fair or Unfair?  --  Cite Evidence



Additional examples of social inequities where groups of people have disproportionate access to resources:  LA Times Report titled 'Product of Mexico' 

Link to Word Generation Readings on Title IX

Week of December 8, 2014

TITLE IX:  Preventing Discrimination against girls and women in sports and education.

Achieve Readings:

32.  For All Women --  Summarizing

33.  More Women than ever at West Point  --  Summarizing
34.  The Mighty Macs --  Summarizing
35.  Is this Law Fair?  -- Cite Evidence
36.  Fair or Unfair?  -- 

Link to Word Generation Readings on Title IX

Week of December 1, 2014

Should English be the Official language of the United States?  2A-11

specify | establish | cohesive | constrain | xenophobia

Achieve Readings
27.  Driver's Test in English only! - Understanding text structure: Compare & Contrast
28.  New School, New Country  -- Summarizing
29.  Making a Better Life --  Understanding text structure: Cause & Effect
30.  Our Great Migration --  Cite Evidence

31. Westward Expansion: The Rush for Riches --  Understanding text structure: Cause & Effect

CONTROVERSY

                                                                            

Week of November 24th, 2014: English as the Official US Language?

Should English be the Official language of the United States?  2A-11

specify | establish | cohesive | constrain | xenophobia

Achieve Readings
27.  Driver's Test in English only! - Understanding text structure: Compare & Contrast
28.  New School, New Country  -- Summarizing
29.  Making a Better Life --  Understanding text structure: Cause & Effect
30.  Our Great Migration --  Cite Evidence
31. Westward Expansion: The Rush for Riches --  Understanding text structure: Cause & Effect

                                                                            

Week of November 17th, 2014 - Paying Professional Athletes

Do Professional Athletes Deserve multi-million dollar salaries?

Achieve Readings

24.  Should These Players Be Paid? -- Cite Information
25.  Would New Ballpark be a Hit?   -- 
26.  No Boys Allowed. -- Cite Information



Who is John Moffitt?

Week of November 10th, 2014 - Professional Athlete Salaries - 2A-04

Do professional athletes deserve multi-million dollar salaries?

guarantee | contrast | parallel | industry | logical 

Achieve Readings

22.  Hockey Fever -- Summarizing
23.  Skateboards by Shaun White -- on sale Now! --  Notetaking Strategies
24.  Should These Players Be Paid? -- Cite Information

Who is John Moffitt?

Week of November 3, 2014

2A-12  How should schools prevent bullying?

amending | equity | constitutes | resolve | legislate 

19.  Stopping the Bullies -- Problem - Solution

20.  Going Gaga for Lady Gaga-- Activating Prior Knowledge and Building Background
21.  Sting Speaks Out --  Understanding Text Structure: Problem/solution

Week of October 27th, 2014 - Prevent Bullying

2A-12  How should schools prevent bullying?

amending | equity | constitutes | resolve | legislate 

Achieve Readings
16. Bye, Bye, Bullies -- Understanding Text Structure
17. President: Just Say No to Bullying --  Problem--Solution
18. Schools Take Steps to stop bullies -- Problem - Solution

Week of Oct 20th, 2014 - Pay Students to do Well?

2A-05  -  Pay Students to do well?
implement -- motivate -- enables -- undertake -- incentive

Achieve Readings

15. Answer for College Hopefuls?  YES! -- Understand Text Structure: Problem/solution

Weeks of October 13 and October 20, 2014: Pay Students to do Well?

2A-05  Pay Students to do Well?
implement -- motivate -- incentive -- enables -- undertake

Achieve Readings

13.  A Different Kind of Classroom:  Understanding text structure: Cause and Effect
14.  More school, Less Vacation:  Understanding text structure: Compare and Contrast

Week of October 6 - October 10

2A-05  Should Students be paid to do well in school?

Achieve Readings

10.  Students Get money for College. -- Vocabulary in Context
11.  What's for Lunch?  - Notetaking 
12.   College, Here We Come!  -- Generating Questions

Sep 29 - October 3 - Robots in the Modern World

Robots in the Modern World

Achieve Readings

6.  Robots in School --  Notetaking
7.  The New Robots --  Generate Questions
8.  Robots Becoming More like People -- Determine Word Meanings from context
9.  The Robot Teacher --  Compare and Contrast



Directions for Noun-Pronoun Quiz #2 due on Friday, Oct 3.

Sep 15 - 27 - Work Dogs, Robots and Work

Work Dogs, Robots and Work

Achieve Readings

1. The Dog That Goes to School - Prior Knowledge
2. What a Dog can do.  -- Generate Questions
3. Working like a dog -- Compare and Contrast
4. A Second Chance for Pets --
5. Robot Nation?---  Prior Knowledge

Summer Break, 2014

We wish you a terrific summer!  We will see you in early September.  For the first half of the 2014-15 School Year, our work will focus on these topics:

May 19 - 30, 2014: 1B-21 Victim Compensation

1B-21 Victim Compensation: Should victims’ families all receive the same compensation?

financial -- compensation -- fund -- sum -- recover


Achieve Readings

1. What was 9/11? -- Activating Prior Knowledge
2. 9/11:  A Day We Will Never Forget -- Generating Questions
3. 9/11:  A Young Boy Remembers -- Activating Prior Knowledge
4. They Want Payback -- Generating Questions
5. Tracking A Deadly Sickness -- Generating Questions
6. In the Dark -- Cause and Effect
7. Hi! May I take your Order? -- Compare and Contrast

• Timeline for 9/11 Events
• GM Ignition Switch Victim Compensation Fund
• Man on Wire - Film

May 5 to May 16, 2014 - 1B-20: High School Dropouts: Who's to blame?

1B-20 High school Dropouts:  Who's to Blame?
convince -- enormous -- integrity -- persistent -- reluctant

ACHIEVE READINGS

1. Teens Say:  Stay in School -- Problem - Solution
2. Where should the money go?
3. Are high-cost schools worth it? --  Summarizing
4. A Free Ride to School -- Problem - Solution
5. Bike Shop Gives Kids a Break -- Prior Knowledge
6. Chicago School Sends Everyone to College -- Problem - Solution
7. The Greatest School on Earth?

Debate Resources on School Attendance

idebate.org resources

Urban Prep - Pushing back against the Drop-Out epidemic

Weeks of April 21 and April 28, 2014: 1B-23 EXPLICIT PHOTOS AND CELL PHONES

1B-23 Explicit Photos and Cell Phones: Innocent fun or Illegal Behavior?

accountable -- disseminate -- constant -- appropriate -- legal

1. More Cell Phones Than Ever
2. Yearbooks Go Hi-Tech
3. States Text Drivers, Send Mixed Messages
4. Texting Spells Trouble for Teen Drivers -- Cause and Effect
5. A Call for Safety -- Problem - Solution
6. To Text or To Talk -- Compare and Contrast
7. Hang Up and Drive -- Generate Questions

Achieve Search 'texting'

idebate.org Resources

Weeks of April 7 - April 14, 2014 - 1B-24 Dating Violence

1B-24 Dating Violence:  Who is responsible?
assault | abuse | trigger | distort | physical

Achieve Readings:

1. Using the Web to watch gangs.  -- cause and effect
2. Sisters in Drumming - Summarizing
3. For All Women - Summarizing
4. Will this plan work?  -- Summarizing
5. Great Women Honored  -- Cause and Effect
6. Same Kids, Different Lives -- Compare and contrast
7. New Help for Soldiers -- Prior Knowledge and Building Background

Teen Dating -  Public Service Message
What is Dating Violence?
CDC - Teen Dating - Injury Prevention
Victims of Crime - Teen Dating

Weeks of March 24 and March 31, 2014: 1B-18: Should Drugs be legalized?

1B-18 -  Should Drugs be Legalized?

decade | incompatible | temporarily | unify | violation 

1. This may hurt a bit!
2. Another reason to get up and go. -- Cause and Effect
3. Can cities stop gangs?
4. Needing the net.  -- Cause and Effect
5. Do iPods make people steal? --  Compare and Contrast
6. No Drugs in Baseball. -- 
7. Looking Closely at Soda --
8. No Cold Meds for Kids Under 4 -- Cause and Effect
9. A New Way to Get Well --  Cause and Effect

Weeks of March 3 and March 10, 2014 -- 1B-16 -- Teen Smoking: Who is responsible?

1B-16 -- Teen Smoking:  Who is responsible?

accumulation -- contradict -- exhibit -- inevitable -- manipulate

Achieve Readings

1. Smoking on the Big Screen.  --   Problem/Solution
2. No Smoking in Hawaii.  --  Problem/Solution
3. Putting out the Smoke.  --   Problem/Solution
4. Too Many Teen Smokers -- Summarizing
5. Fair Warning?  -- Problem/Solution
6. So long, Smoke! -- Summarizing
7. New Rules for Cigarette Makers -- Cause and Effect
8. E-cigarettes found unsafe --  Compare and Contrast
9. UN to Countries: Stop Smoking! -- Problem/Solution
10. Keeping Kids Safe -- Summarizing
11. Rated R for Smoking -- Summarizing
12. Will Companies Have to Pay?  -- Problem/Solution
13. Boy, Is She Fuming? -- Science, Summarizing
14. Good News?  We're all ears!  -- Cause and Effect

Count-Noncount Nouns - 1
Count-noncount Nouns -  2
Count-noncount Nouns -  3
Count-noncount Nouns - 4

Present Tense - Practice 

Readings on the 2014 Olympics and Olympic Movement

Google's Image on the eve of the Winter Olympics, 2014

"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter

Achieve Readings

1. All Eyes on Sochi -- Cite Evidence
2. The Flying Tomato:  Still flying. -- Generating questions
3. Los Angeles Wants the Olympics --  Generating questions
4. Finishing Up with a splash.  --  Generating questions
5. Climbing Kilimanjaro --   Summarizing
6. London Gets the Games -- Summarizing
7. London Gets Ready for Olympics - Summarizing 
8. No Gold for Kwan -- Summarizing
9. Michelle Kwan Honored -- Activating Prior Knowledge and Background Information
10. Ohno?  Oh Yes!  -- Summarizing
11. They've Got the Games. --  Chronological Sequence

• Slideshare
• COUNT - NON-C0UNT NOUNS 
• PLURAL - SINGULAR - Understanding count nouns and non-count nouns
• PLURAL - SINGULAR - Practice -  see list of exercises at bottom of page
• 1- Simple present tense practice-- See exercises 6, 7 and 8
• 2- Simple present tense practice - See bottom of webpage
• 3 - Simple Present Tense - Practice 

         

1B-15 Today's News

1B-15  Today's News:  Information or Entertainment?

abandon -- biased -- contemporary -- dramatic -- exploit

Achieve Readings

1. When Sinking a Ship is Good News -- Generate Questions
2. A New Home for Two Pandas -- Compare and Contrast
3. Not the News! -- 
4. What are they trying to sell?  -- Generating Questions
5. To Warn the People -- Main Idea

Word Generation Pages - -1B-15

Week of January 20, 2014 - 1B-14

1A-14  Asthma:  More than a medical problem?
intervention -- phenomenon -- priority -- suspend  -- transmit

Achieve Readings

1. Less Smoke, Healthier Kids  --  Cause and Effect
2. No Idle Law -- Cause and Effect
3. The Air in Arvin  -- Cause and Effect

Week of January 13th, 2014 - 1B-13 -- Is the Death penalty justified?

1B-13  Is the Death penalty justified?
advocates -- contrary -- prohibit -- release -- reverse

ACHIEVE READINGS

1. Another Chance for A Better Life?  --  Cite Evidence
2. The U.N. Takes a Stand --  Compare and Contrast
3. Nation's Top Judge Dies -- Summarize

January 6th, 2014 - 1A-12 -- JUNK FOOD: SHOULD SCHOOLS SELL IT?

1A-12 -- JUNK FOOD:  Should schools sell it?

acknowledge -- incidence -- incorporate -- initiative -- transport

Achieve Readings:

1. What's for Lunch? --- Compare and Contrast
2. No More Candy, No More Chips --- Generating Questions
3. Don't Pass the Salt! --- Text Structure: Cause and Effect
4. We're Getting too Fat --- Problem Solution

For reading #1 -  Summarize all paragraphs.

For reading #2 -  Generate questions for the first five paragraphs.

For reading #3 -  Set the purpose for the first four paragraphs