FOR Thursday's class: Introduction to the Culiminating Activity/Final Assessment

In the last part of the Brain Gain unit, you will take part in a two-stage culminating activity:

                  1. You will analyze and write about one of three related texts (#7, #8, or #9).

                AND

                 2. You will lead a comparative discussion about the three texts.


Tuesday and Wednesday will be devoted to reading the last three texts together, using Guiding Questions to help us share and explore our first impressions.

Here are the links to the three texts if you lose your copies:

Eleanor Roosevelt: text #7     Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?  Click here: http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt-9463366

Thomas Jefferson text #8  Who was Thomas Jefferson? Click here: http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-jefferson-9353715

Arne Duncan text #9  Who is Arne Duncan? Click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Duncan

Also, you will need a copy of the Questioning Texts Questioning Texts linkand the Analyzing Texts handoutAnalyzing Details handout.