1. Materials needed for Tuesday
Today Feb-07-2012
 Pen/Pencil  Please add all
weekly assignments
Highlighter to your planner
 What is your
 Watching Baseball,
learning goal?
Playing Softball article

2. Watching Baseball, Playing Softball
February 7,2012

3. Essential Questions
 How does an author organize text when the author’s
purpose is to compare and contrast two or more subjects?
 How do people show bias towards something?

4. Building Academic Vocabulary Review
 Compare
 Contrast
 Bias

5. Baseball vs. Softball
Compare Contrast

9. Check your understanding…
 On your sticky, give an example of BOTH
comparison and contrasting detail from the text
Compare Contrast

10. What to do before the bell rings…
Wednesday  Pen/pencil
February 8, 2012
 Highlighter
 Watching Baseball article &
questions
 MLK, Jr. vs. Malcolm X article

14. Essential Questions
 How does an author organize text when the author’s
purpose is to compare and contrast two or more subjects?
 With your partner, discuss the comparisons and contrasts
of “Watching Baseball” and “MLK, Jr. vs. Malcolm X.”
 How do people show bias towards something?

15. Friday February 10, 2012
What do you need before the bell
rings?
 Pencil
 Two sheets of essay paper located on
counter
One sheet notebook paper titled
“Planning Sheet”
Transitional phrase notes

16. Persuasive Prompt
Situation: Your school is going to grant your grade level one
privilege that the other grades in your school will not have,
what should that privilege be?
Directions for Writing: Think of one privilege that you
would like to have that you do not have now. Think about
why your class should be granted this privilege.
Write an essay to convince the administrators of your school
to grant this privilege to your class for the rest of the year.