Objective:  I can annotate “Lift the Cell Phone Ban” by reading and consulting with my neighbor to answer the questions of each category, make personal and inter-textual connections, and solve roadblocks by using at least three different strategies.

BW:  Identify the roadblock “Pandora’s Box” at the bottom of p. 4 in “Opening the Door to Cell Phones…”.  In your notebook,  identify a strategy to solve it and estimate a new meaning.  Identify textual evidence earlier on the page and write a sentence or two that shows a connection between the roadblock solution and the evidence.

Activities:

1.  Share Out:  How would you solve the roadblock?  What connection did you make with Summerhill’s earlier statement about cell phone use in schools?  How does Summerhill’s comment lend credibility to the author’s view of cell phones in school?
2. Hover:  Skim for roadblocks.  Even concepts like “GoKnow” can be roadblocks.
3. Independent Study:  Identify claim by inverting title into a question and answering it.
4. Think Pair/Share:  Invert the first two subtopics into questions and find golden lines.
5. Independent Study:  Annotate the whole article by answering the category questions, making personal and inter-textual connections as in bellwork, and solving roadblocks by using at least three different strategies.
6. Reminders:  Retakes for the “Opening the Door to Cell Phones…” annotation assignment will be on Thursday after school.  Retakes for the DLW Quiz(Honors) will be on Friday(Nov. 10).