418-+Agenda+-+2.28.17

Today’s Goal Explain the purpose of scaffolding texts using pre- during-, and post- framing

1:50 - 2:05 - Welcome and review
 * Notetaker: user:Ezykan
 * Review:
 * 1. Two specific new ideas you learned from Zwiers, chapter 7
 * 2. What is meant by bottom-up and top-down processing in reading?
 * 3. Read this link and check and revise your responses.
 * [|__http://www.esltrail.com/2016/06/bottom-up-and-top-down-strategies-or.html__]

2:05 - 2:20 - Text Talk (Melissa, Athena, Antonio) Language for Reading Complex Texts (Ch. 7) Main Question: How can we develop both student language of academic reading and their reading of academic language?

Expert Reading Activities Goal: create a positive cycle of literacy, language, content and thinking
 * align word meanings with author's meaning
 * understand and condense what came before in text
 * determine important information
 * connect academic text to existing knowledge
 * recognize author's purpose, structure, and commitment in a text
 * oral scaffolds for academic reading (table 7.1)
 * text discussion activities
 * understanding text organization
 * reading activities that build grammar
 * vocabulary instruction

__Group Activity:__ Come up with a song as a group that depicts your stage of mitosis

2:20 - 3:05 - Pre- during - post strategies
 * How does engagement change when a text is linked to an activity? (like the song activity from Text Talk)
 * What is the variable? (The teaching)
 * The only thing in our control is our pedagogy
 * "text" is a very broad term- anything we ask students to interpret and make meaning from

__Read the following excerpt and be aware of your thinking:__ A nanotube sensor with a targeted antibody is extremely sensitive. In a single-blinded test of 100 patient samples, Andraka’s sensor spotted the presence of mesothelin, a protein commonly used as a biomarker for pancreatic cancer, at a limit of 0.156 nano grams per milliliter, well below the 10 ng/mL considered an overexpression of mesothelin consistent with pancreatic cancer. It’s also 100 times more selective than existing diagnostic tests, which means no false positives or false negatives. It ignored healthy patient samples as well as those with mere pancreatitis. Compared with the 60-year-old diagnostic technique called enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (or ELISA), used in pregnancy test strips and viral checks for HIV, West Nile and hepatitis B, Andraka’s sensor is 168 times faster, 26,667 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive. It can spot the presence of the cancer-linked protein well before the cancer itself becomes invasive. This could save the lives of thousands of pancreatic cancer victims each year. The sensor costs $3 (ELISA can cost up to $800) and ten tests can be performed per strip, with each test taking five minutes. It can be used also to monitor resistance to antibiotics and follow the progression of treatment of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation. [|__Link__]

After reading this text, rate comprehension and interest level on a scale of 1-5 (1 being very low, 5 being very high)
 * Background knowledge can influence comprehension and interest level

Thoughts on Powerpoint (posted below)
 * How can we "package" a text?
 * make a text meaningful and engaging
 * how do we properly frame a text?
 * build investment
 * give background knowledge
 * establish a purpose

What makes a difference?
 * background information (Top-Down Processing)
 * purpose


 *  __http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/418+-+Agenda+-+2.23.17__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (files and ppt)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> __http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/418+-+Agenda+-+2.21.17__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (ppt)

Pre-Reading Goals:
 * capture interest
 * build/activate background knowledge
 * establish a purpose for reading

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You try it: Design a pre-reading activity for the following texts: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Glance at text and think about a possible pre-reading activity.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Health - [|__http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/learning/are-we-too-isolated-from-each-other.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math - [|__https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-no-two-snowflakes-are-the-same/2011/11/07/gIQAlwZNLN_story.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Studies - [|__https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/nyregion/young-muslim-americans-are-feeling-the-strain-of-suspicion.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Music/Theater [|__https://themusicteacher.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/the-thinking-singer-proper-posture/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English - [|__http://jenhatmaker.com/blog/2015/02/04/on-becoming-a-writer__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Housekeeping:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read Holler, chapter 4 for Thursday
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">REMEMBER: By 2/23, please indicate your schedule of supervised lessons [|__here__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.