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 * Learning Goal:**
 * **SWBAT identify key elements of academic language.**

1:00 - 1:05 - Welcome and agenda __GOAL__: This is what we mean by academic language and key characteristics 1:05 - 1:35 - Academic language experience __**Affective Response:**__ __**Strategies/Coping:**__ __**What Would Help?**__
 * Notetaker: Taylor user:tseth2 Assistant Notetaker: user:Mgreen141
 * Frustrating, apathetic, interested, "trauma", confused/tricked, curious
 * Step out, draw on prior knowledge, guess, break down words, utilize in text resources, skim, chunk, analyze, text-reflection
 * Purpose!, vocabulary, background, not my language, how to read it, context/connecting, pen and paper, prior instruction.**Basically ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING! (**

1:35 - 1:50 - "Text Talk" model - Zwiers, chapter 2 What: 15 min talk that we will lead
 * [|Handout]
 * Activity - With a partner, see how many features of academic language or grammar you can identify in [|this passage].

1:50 - 2:00 - Debrief "Text Talk" PURPOSE: To find these features in a piece of text. __**TRY THE TRUMP IDEA!? (:**__ __**Ideas For Anny:**__ Allow students to read it once to have enough time to analyze. Go through one paragraph as a whole class! Shorter text to have enough time at the end to come together again and discuss.
 * "Text Talk" components
 * 1 page handout focusing on **main ideas** and **useful strategies (Not ever big idea)**
 * 5-minute mini-lecture (__**REVIEW key concepts)**__
 * 10-minute interactive activity that a) demonstrates a suggested strategy, and/or b) reinforces key concepts, and/or c) extends learning from the chapter (
 * Grading criteria - timing, preparation, engagement of student
 * Function-** complex concepts, higher order thinking, abstraction
 * Features of Academic Language-** figurative language, distant audiences, detached writer/speak evidence-based claims, softening with qualifiers, prosody,
 * Features of Academic Grammar-** long sentences, passive voice nominalization, condensed complex messages clarity.

2:00 - 2:25 - Elements of AL (edTPA definitions) media type="custom" key="28207001"

2:25 - 2:30 - Closure


 * Housekeeping:**
 * **For Tuesday, 1/26 - Read Zwiers, chapter 3**
 * Text Talk - 1. 2. - Sarah and Julie
 * **For Thursday, 1/26 - Vocabulary Teaching Module**