1. Bridge to College English
Monday 10/17 – Friday 10/21

2. Reading Informational Text
Monday 10/17/16 – Wednesday 10/19/16

3. Learning Targets RI.12.3 (key ideas and details)
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
W (range of writing)
Write routinely over extended time frames for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

4. On Both Sides of the Bench
Adult Time for Adult Crimes?
What Works?
The Reasons for Treating Juveniles Differently
Monday – Wednesday: Read and discuss these articles.
Thursday: Writing prompt – must include evidence from each article

5. Active Reading
Read and annotate the articles. Thoroughly mark the text!
Chunk the text
Vocab – mark it, identify it in context, look it up, etc.
Read for understanding
Track the arguments
Summarize each chunk
Parts to a whole – make meaning from the whole

6. Create and Support a Claim
Thursday 10/20/16 – Friday 10/21/16
Materials
3 articles from class this week
2-3 pieces of notebook paper
Writing utensil
Music? Start a playlist and put your phone away!!

7. Should juveniles be tried as adults? What factors should be considered?
Your answer to these questions is your thesis!
Make sure to include evidence from each of the three articles in your essay to support your thesis.
How long? Write enough to thoroughly answer the prompt and include evidence and analysis from all three articles. Your writing should have a beginning, some middle, and an end.