1. AVID Focus Lesson Income and segregation in Housing
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AVID Focus Lesson Income and segregation in Housing

2. Preparing to Read-Discuss
In small groups, discuss the following prompt: If you were given enough money to buy a home of your choice in any neighborhood, where would you choose to live? Explain.

3. Preparing to read-Write
On a separate sheet of paper from your notebook, respond to the following prompt: Think about your neighborhood. Your street. The people who live on your street. How many people are wealthy? How many struggle financially? What does the neighborhood look like? Sound like? Do you have nice stores, schools, and medical facilities nearby? Give someone who is unfamiliar with your neighborhood a good description of where you live.

4. Language Development-Discuss
Key Concepts:
Poverty
Minorities
Segregation
Housing market

5. Language Development-Write
Look up the following words in the dictionary. You may have to share with others.
Affluent (par.1)
Persistent (par. 1)
Metropolitan (par. 2)
Census (par. 5)
Exacerbate (par. 11)
Disproportionate (par. 18)

6. Pre-Reading: Survey the text
Report on what you see. Are there subtitles? Is the text divided into sections? What is the length of the individual paragraphs? Scan the text and write down how long it is.
Make predictions based on what you see so far and the vocabulary words you looked up: What will this text be about?
Now read the first and last paragraphs and make another prediction.

7. First Read Number the paragraphs first
Then read the article: You are to remain quiet while reading. You must stay quiet while waiting for others to finish.

8. Second Read
Circle and underline information relevant to the reading task.
We will go through and do this as a class.

9. Third Read Summarize and Clarify
Write one or two summary sentences for each section.
Key Points
(pars.)
Summary Sentence (s) 1 4
5-8 11
13-15
18-20 21