New School Year!

Welcome to the EAP class! This semester, we will be doing lots and lots of reading writing. Today is reading workshop and we will take a look at the first chapter of the book: Across the Universe.

Learning Goals:

Our learning goals today are:

1. you will practice your reading strategies of questioning and making predictions. We will go to the website Into the Book for an interactive lesson.

2. by the end of our time together today, you will write a response to this text, showing how using these reading strategies helped you to understand and engage with the character and events in this exciting sci-fi book.

3. You will practice questioning and predicting in your book and talk to your reading partner about how you used these strategies.

It will be a fun workshop!

Articles

An article can show up anywhere: a newspaper, a magazine, online, in a podcast, a newsletter or even on a billboard!

Possible topics

My broad topics--getting narrow!

1. Extreme sports

• paragliding
• ?

2. Music

• DJing: putting together mixes for a party

3. Technology

• Paper-thin notebook computers
• Ed-tech
• Digital reading and writing workshops

4. Things to do in Jakarta

• Thousand Islands
• Waterparks

5. India

• Rajasthan

6. New York

• Central Park
• Broadway shows
• Statue of Liberty/Staton Island

Visual Thesaurus

Instead of. . . use:

said: alleged, supposed, assumed, muttered, grumbled, griped
pretty: resplendent, ravishing, exquisite, glorious,
fun
sad
need
happy

Right There Question 1

Topic: Basketball

Right there question: When and where was basketball invented?
Answer: Basketball was invented in Canada in 1891.

Source: Canada Facts http://www.canadafacts.org/basketball-a-canadian-invention/

Reading Strategy: QAR

Reading Strategy: QAR (Question, Answer Relationships)

Purpose for reading: To create and answer different types of questions

QAR has four types of questions:

• Right there: The answer can be found directly in the text

• Think and Search: The answer is in the text , but you need to put together different information to come up with the answer (synthesize)

• Author and you: The answer is not in the text, but you can use the information in the article to come up with an answer. You need to think about what information the author gave you as you read the text.

• On my own: The information is not in the article, but you will be able to speculate (guess) about an answer now that you have read the text

Teens driven to distraction:

Semester 2 Entry 1

What is research? List everything you know about research. Make sure you give examples of research you have done.

What are the pros and cons of research? Why in the world do you hear the word research so often in school?

What are questions that you have about research? What would you like to know more about? What would you like to learn?