1. Agenda Warm-Up Surveying the Text Anticipation Guide
Making Predictions & Asking Questions
Grammar
Exit Ticket

2. Warm-Up Quick Write Respond to the following in your notebook:
Americans are at increasing risk of disease because of the unhealthy food we eat.
What will it take to get us to change our eating habits?

3. Surveying the Text
What do the titles “Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause” and “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables” tell you about what the articles will be about?
Can you guess what “No Lunch Left Behind” is going to be about from its title?

4. Surveying the Text
All three articles were published in the New York Times in 2009 and 2011.
What can you predict about the articles?
How do you think the articles will be the same?
How do you think they will be different?
Turn the title of each article into a question.

5. Anticipation Guide
You will be given an anticipation guide so you can consider your own beliefs and knowledge about the causes and possible solutions for the obesity epidemic.
As we read, you will find proof for each statement and you’ll be able to confirm or correct your answers.

6. Anticipation Guide
Indicate in the first column which of the statements you believe are true and which are false.
After reading, you will go back and label the statements true or false based on what you learned by reading the article.
Record the number of the paragraph in which you found the information.
Make any needed corrections in the last column.

7. Making Predictions & Asking Questions
Read the first paragraph of “No Lunch Left Behind” silently.
What do Waters and Heron think should happen to school lunches?
Now that you’ve read the first paragraph, explain what the title of the article means?

8. Making Predictions & Asking Questions
Now read the first five paragraphs of “Bad Food?” silently.
What is it going to be about? Why does Bittman put a question mark after “Bad Food?”
Who do you think is the intended audience for this piece? How do you know this? Is this the same audience for “No Lunch Left Behind”?

9. Grammar Packets
You will be given a Grammar Packet that will accompany this unit.
You need to bring it to school every day.
It will be a part of your grade!
PUT THIS IN YOUR PLANNER NOW!

10. Grammar Cont. Follow along as I read the paragraph.
Make notes and corrections as you read.
Re-write the paragraph correctly in your notebooks.

11. Exit Ticket What problems do you have about the food that you eat?
What are your solutions?