Michael's Core Class - PM with Lynn

Michael's Core Class - PM:

Hiya core class! I'm excited to hear how your morning water rotation with Cori went. This afternoon please work to make sure you are positively engaged and representing yourself and our class community well. You may NOT use headphones this afternoon for music. Sorry. Make sure you manage expectations appopriately with chromebooks. 

I slightly changed my plans this afternoon. Tomorrow in the morning before our field study we will work on our Water is Life posters that we started yesterday. Today you are going to work through both NewsELA and VTS using the chromebooks and practice having student led discussions.

1. Read the following NewsELA article on “intersectionality.” Login into NewsELA through google using your PPS account. Select to read it at an appropriate reading level for yourself. After reading the article, respond to the written questions and the quiz.
1. https://newsela.com/articles/lib-intersectionality/id/26477/#
2. VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) Writing Practice

1. Tomorrow we are going to the Portland Art Museum (!!!) in the afternoon. We are going to practice using VTS there. This afternoon, we are going to do an individual writing exercise to prepare for tomorrow.
2. Get a VTS Writing Practice Handout from Lynn (VTS Written Response Handout)
3. Find one image to focus on using the New York Times VTS blog:
1. https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture
4. Once you have selected your image, use the VTS handout that Lynn has to draw a brief sketch of the image and respond to the following prompts in writing:
1. What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can you find?
2. Your writing should reflect thought, effort, creativity, and specific detail
5. Turn this completed document into Lynn when done.
1. 3. When done, find another NewsELA article to read and complete the responses for OR respond to a different VTS article in your WW Journal
2. 4. You will have until 1:50
3. 5. Be prepared to discuss your thinking related to the NewsELA article and VTS image you looked at