1. UNIT 2 ACTIVITY 8 GATHERING EVIDENCE FROM A NEWS ARTICLE SpringBoard English Language Arts Grade 7. Teacher ed. College Board, 2014. Print.

2. LEARNING TARGETS SKIMMING/SCANNING: SUPERFICIAL READING OF THE TEXT TO GET AN OVERALL IMPRESSION MARKING THE TEXT: HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING AND ANNOTATING FOR SPECIFIC COMPONENTS (!, * _) CLOSE READING: ACCESSING SMALL CHUNKS OF TEXT TO READ, REREAD, MARK, AND ANNOTATE KEY PASSAGES, WORD-FOR-WORD, SENTENCE-BY- SENTENCE, AND LINE-BY-LINE

3. BEFORE READING 1. SKIM AND SCAN THE TEXT FEATURES AND DISCUSS WITH A PARTNER WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT INFORMATION IN THE BOLD HEADINGS. IF YOU ARE UNCLEAR, MAKE A PREDICTION.

4. DURING READING Also complete the key ideas and details while reading. (4 boxes)

5. WORD CONNECTIONS GRAMMAR & USAGE

6. AFTER READING

8. JIGSAW SENTENCE VARIETY 1, 2, 3, 4

11. LEARNING TARGETS SKIMMING/SCANNING: SUPERFICIAL READING OF THE TEXT TO GET AN OVERALL IMPRESSION MARKING THE TEXT: HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING AND ANNOTATING FOR SPECIFIC COMPONENTS (!, * _) CLOSE READING: ACCESSING SMALL CHUNKS OF TEXT TO READ, REREAD, MARK, AND ANNOTATE KEY PASSAGES, WORD-FOR-WORD, SENTENCE-BY- SENTENCE, AND LINE-BY-LINE