BK History Lesson - 9.19.2013

Lesson Four:

AIM: How do photographers communicate their experiences

Do Now: 

Think about your neighborhood and David Gonzalez’ slide show.  What are 2 – 3 photographs you could take that would capture your neighborhood?

HW: Choose one of these photographs and use detailed imagery to describe it in order that your classmates can picture it.

AGENDA:

1. Do Now
2. Do Now Share
3. Hand out photo assignment and discuss (Due on Tuesday)
4. Explain:  Just like we look at different writes writing styles, we have to look at different photography styles
5. In groups look at pictures. Use the books and the LES Slideshow
6. Students come up and present their chosen image in their group
7. Mike introduces photo terms

BK History Lesson - 9.18.2013

Lesson Three




AIM: How do writers use reflection to communicate the meaning of their experiences?



DO NOW: Share your commute description with the person next to you. Be prepared to discuss your partner’s anecdote with the whole class. We will collect your HW!



AGENDA:

1. Do Now: Share HW with the person next to you

2. Whole class share of HW (share your partner’s)

3. Introduce David Gonzalez piece

4. Listen and watch

5. Getting to the gist

6. Read, code and annotate looking for reflection and significant moments

7. Listen and read

8. Interpreting the Ideas of the text

9. Open Forum discussion



HW: Brainstorm a list (at least 4) moments you have had in New York where you felt changed afterward (think about David Gonzalez’ example of coming back to the Bronx and having his experience there). Choose one of your ideas and 1) describe the experience, and 2) explain how it changed you.

BK History Unit 1, Lesson 2 - 9.17.2013

Lesson Two:

Aim:  How do you distinguish between what a writer is saying and what a writer is doing?

Do Now:

Jot answers to the following questions in prep for the Open Forum discussion. 

• What is Colson Whitehead saying about what it means to live in NYC?
• What is he saying about what it means to be a New Yorker?
• Where did you like his writing style?  What techniques did he use?

AGENDA:

1. Do Now: 
2. Open Forum Discussion
3. Introduce the note-sheet:  Model the sheet
4. Author says, Author does, Author means – in class

HW:  Describe an aspect of your commute to school using sensory images (example:  your walk to the subway or from the subway, your ride on the subway etc.)

BK History Unit 1, Lesson 1 - 9.16.2013

BK History

Unit One: Personal Narrative

Lesson One:

AIM:  How do writers communicate their experiences?

DO NOW: 

Vocabulary: 

Anecdote:  A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

Write down one anecdote that you have experienced that could only have happened in New York City.

AGENDA:

1. Do Now
2. Do Now Share – highlighting imagery (creating a picture for the reader by using descriptive language), sensory images (include details that bring to life the smells, sounds, touch, sights, and tastes for the reader), reflection (describing the impact something had on you and your idenity)
3. Review the unit overview – expectations, assignments, summative assessment
4. Hand out Whitehead reading and begin to read, discuss and code and annotate
5. Choose a line that  resonates with you and share

HW:  Finish reading, coding and annotating.  Choose a line that most resonates with you.  Open Forum discussion tomorrow

BK History Lesson 4 - 9.12

Aim: What are the questions we can ask that will help us explain how Brooklyn got to be the way it is?

DO NOW: In your notes, make a T-Chart: 

Observations:

Inferences:

                               

Questions:

Write your observations and inferences of this image, and a level 1, 2, and 3 question.

Come up with a title for the image.

http://maggieblanck.com/Brooklyn/Nov0512a.jpg

VOCABULARY:

CORRELATION:   To establish the mutual relationships of different data

DATA:  Factual information used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, and calculation

AGENDA:

1. Do now
2. Do Now share
3. Introduce next lens: historical
4. Explain the task:  viewing two historical maps and observing and generating Qs (use Gowanus Canal)
5. Review Costa’s House and model Level 1, 2, 3 Questions with the map
6. Students get laptops, handouts, and task to begin
7. Independent/pair research and question-creation
8. Stop and share observations as students go along
9. Write Qs on post-its and stick on Costa’s house

Map 1 Link:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/This_Interactive_Map_Compares_the_New_York_City_of_1836_to_Today.html
Map 2 Link:

http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/

BK History 2013 Lesson 3 – 9.11.2013

 Aim:  How has NYC changed under Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor?

DO NOW:   Which of these topics seems the most interesting to you:

1.        Building affordable housing for NYC

2.       New building development in NYC

3.       Who is moving in and out of NYC neighborhoods

AGENDA:

1. Share HW in a discussion reviewing the coding

2. Hand out different readings – by interest (ELL students get shortest reading)

3. Students independently read, code and annotate

4. Hand out Qs and students jot answers

5. Review Open Forum protocol – we will use for any informal whole class discussion from here on out

6. Start Open Forum discussion with readings

Questions for readings (Complete on worksheet)

1.        According to your text, which issues are New Yorkers facing today?

2.       According to your text, how did Mayor Bloomberg attempt to address these issues?

3.       Based on what you have read so far, and any prior knowledge, how important is this issue for the city?

   HW:  Answer AIM Question

BK History Lesson 2 - 9.10.2013

Aim:  How has NYC changed under Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor?

DO NOW:

Answer the following questions in your notebook or on a separate sheet of paper:

1.      How long have you lived in NYC?

2.     What is one thing about the city that has changed since you have lived here?

3.     Would you say that this change has been for the better or for the worse?  Why?

AGENDA:

Do Now

Share HW:  Turn-and-Talk with Questions; and Whole Class

Discuss Do Now answers

Introduce Lens Two:  Current NYC issues

-        Reshaping New York: NY Times interactive  

 http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/08/18/reshaping-new-york/

-        Introduce coding and annotating text with “New York Remade” article from WNYC

-        Independent Work:  Coding and annotating article

HW2:  Finish coding and annotating “New York Remade”.

TURN-and-TALK DIRECTIONS:

1.      To the person or persons next to you, explain who you interviewed, and the questions that you asked.

2.     Which of the answers was most interesting or surprising to you?

3.     How do your interviewee’s answers compare to your own?