Jan+18,+19

** Learning Goal: ** **Use questioning strategy to deepen comprehension of a text and engage in rich text discussion**

Writer's Notebook: Observations
For 4 minutes- Record your observations on the above photo. Include: Remember: this section of your notebook is a place for you to record human behavior and your own observations about the world around you. Put your own life experience into it!
 * details you notice
 * impressions
 * Approximate age? Life situation?
 * What is he playing?
 * etc.

Read Aloud
Watch video on violent video games
 * Discuss video.

Read Aloud article from //The Wall Street Journal: Classroom Edition// January 2011: "Are Violent Videogames a Threat to Society?"
 * Give students sticky notes and have them generate Level 2-3 questions as you read.
 * Give them independent time to generate questions.

Mini-Lesson

 * 1) Tell students they will discuss the article via an organized discussion, Socratic Seminar like we modeled last class.
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.png width="32" height="32" caption="external image vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.png" link="http://wordsworthdivas.wikispaces.com/file/view/NotesOrganizer_SocraticSeminar.docx"]] [|NotesOrganizer_SocraticSeminar.docx]Put on the timer, and give students 10 minutes to work individually to prepare notes for the discussion. It's important they NOT TALK as they don't need to have the same ideas to share in the discussion.
 * 1) Number of students to form groups of 4-5 students.
 * 2) Review the anchor chart created last class period on discussion skills.
 * 3) Have each group discuss in the center circle for five (5) minutes, using the online timer.

Violence in the Media: Your Thoughts...
Ideas to consider- freedom of speech, artistic expression, effect on today's youth, censorship, current events stories that have involved this topic, school shootings, teen violence

Individual Reading Time/Writing Time
Read in your novel and journal.