THUR: Old Routines ANEW!

Rule #1 - John will believe whatever the sub tells him...

Rule #2 - work the entire time, quietly and on your own 

There is no group work today

Learning Target(s)

• I can catch up on my Reading+ and Typing.com commitments
• I can read, assess, and comment on an interesting article of my own choosing (from a curated list)

Announcements 

• No School for students This Friday
• Report cards come out this Today
• Student Lead Conferences NEXT WEEK

ONGOING REMINDERS: 

• Notify John if your drives are not working.  Everybody should be backing up to google drive or a flash drive JUST IN CASE THERE IS A DISASTER.   REMEMBER THE POLICY: YOU are responsible for the safety of your data even if OUR technology fails. Back up your data!

Homework 

• READ 1/2 hour per day!  Try these sites!
• news.google.com
• www.theatlantic.com/
• www.teenvogue.com
• www.theskepticsguide.org/news
• qi.com/feed
• www.popsci.com/
• www.independent.co.uk/news/world
• www.popularmechanics.com

Agenda [100]

First half of period [50]

1. Reading Plus - TWO READINGS
• DO NOT PLAY ANY AUDIO OR VIDEO FILES
• DO NOT ASK TO USE HEADPHONES
• You may do reading plus the entire 50 minutes
• You must stop after 50 minutes even if in the middle of a reading
• After you have done TWO Reading+ READINGS you may continue to  typing.com
2. Typing.com - the rest of the 50 minutes
• AFTER doing TWO Reading+ READINGS
• Finish the 50 minutes do ing Typing.com

Second 1/2 of the period [50]

• Your TASK is to read and comment intelligently and completely on one or more articles
• The PROCESS is as follows:
1. Open the RESPONSE DOCUMENT [by CLICKING HERE] and look at prompts you will be writing about
2. Select ONE of the articles below - choose the one that looks most interesting!
• John has added categories to give you a general idea what topics come up in each article
• IF an article seems too hard for you to read and understand stick with it for a bit and see if you get it with more effort.
• IF you are totally not understanding what you are reading then move on to another article but remember you need to be
• Turning in at least one article
• reading and writing the entire 50 minutes
3. When you have finished reading the article go back to the Answer Document and answer the prompts.
• If there is still time
• Choose another interesting article and enjoy reading it!
• If you want to finish after school or on the weekend, submit another Answer Document  for Extra Credit - but make sure it is good work 

• REMINDER: 
• DO NOT PLAY ANY AUDIO OR VIDEO FILES
• DO NOT ASK TO USE HEADPHONES
• DO NOT JUST "PLAY IT QUIETLY"
• PLAY THEM ON YOUR OWN TIME

• Current Events, Sexual Assault, Women's Rights:
• From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
• Health, Sex, Statistics
• Sexually transmitted disease cases hit record numbers, CDC says
• Gender, Science, Current Events
• Not As Simple As XX or XY.
• History, Politics, and Why John is partly the way he is...
• REMEMBER: DO NOT PLAY AUDIO OR VIDEO FILES
• The Berkeley Revolution
• A digital archive of one city's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
• Teens, Society, Statistics
• Not drinking or driving, teens increasingly put off traditional markers of adulthood
• Drugs, Mental Health, Drug Laws, Society
• FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For Post-Traumatic Stress
• Science, Algorithms  The Future, Coding, Computers
• Using Machine Learning to predict parking difficulty [Google Research Blog: The latest news from Research at Google]
• Food, Business, Health, (Technology)
• Fast Casual Nation: The movement that has changed how America eats
• Race, Society, Current Events
• Most of America's hate groups are rooted in white supremacy
• Society, Current Events, History, Racism and Hate, Privilege and Power
• The first thing teachers should do when school starts is talk about hatred in America. Here’s help.
• Society, current Events, Addiction, ADHD, Teens
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?