LESSON PLAN 2 TWEET AN ARTICLE

Outcomes: CCSS RS 8.3

Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text and provide an objective summary of the text. Instructional objective:

Students will be able to identify the most important ideas in a short text and their relationship and accurately restate it in 140 characters in their own words in order to help them to simplify information to comprehend the text. Assessment: I will collect the students worksheet with summary of the brief text they decide to read and to summarize. I will use the following performance rubric to determine the success of the need to reteach summarizing. Needs Work Meets Criteria The student identifies the main ideas of the short text accurately. The student finds the relationship among the main ideas accurately. The student condenses the main ideas and their relationship in a summary that makes sense containing 140 characters. Exceeds Criteria

Materials Needed: Choices of different brief text retrieved from TweenTribune.com. Scholastics Summarizing Graphic Organizer retrieved from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/vocabulary/pdf/sr_allgo.pdf

Total Time Needed: 40 min Procedures: Introduction (3 min): Before the students come in the classroom I will have the name of some of the most followed on twitter and the number of follower on the board: @Sockington 1 509 681 @nfl 1 636 186 @GMA 1 702 869 @peoplemag 2 057 169 @aplusk 5 134 674 Did you notice the things on the board as you walk in? Who can tell me what they are? How many of you are twitter users? Tell me more about tweeting.

Steps for instruction (35 min): o You need to have 140 characters, including letters, numbers, periods and spaces, in order to be able to post your tweets. In other words, youll need to balance the amount you want to communicate with the amount of room you have, and still write something readable. o Youll also need to stand out catch peoples eyes. Youll want to elicit a response from the reader as well. o I think tweets are a summary of a bigger story, dont you think? o So, today, I have a challenge for you. I dare you to summarize an already brief text in 140 words. But first, let me give you some pointers on how to summarize a text. o When we summarize we find the main ideas and how they relate to each other, then we briefly write what we think is most important in our own words. We summarize to make a lot of information simpler and easier to comprehend. o You summarize information all the time, for example when you watch a show and the next day you have to tell your friend the great show he/she missed. o Summarizing information when we are doing research is also important in order to understand the information we consider to use in our papers. o Lets summarize a short article I selected from TweenTribune.com o First, let me read the article. Feel free to take any notes about the main ideas of the article.

I WILL READ THE ARTICLE AFTER I FINISH READING THE ARTICLE WE WILL FILL OUT THE ATTACHED SUMMARIZING GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FROM SCHOLASTICS TOGETHER ON THE BOARD. THEN, WE WILL WORK ON OUR TWEETER SENTENCE. IF TIME IS LIMITED I WILL HAVE THE TWEETER SENTENCE MADE BEFORE HAND. o Now it is your turn to tweet! Be creative! Use 140 characters and write complete words. o You will do exactly the same thing we did together. I have different articles you can choose from, but they are limited. And do not write on the articles please, I will use them with the other class. I WILL READ THE TITLE OF EACH ARTICLE, AND WHO EVER RAISES THEIR HAND FIRST WILL GET IT. I WILL HAVE 5 COPIES OF EVERY ARTICLE. o You will have 10 to 15 minutes to complete your tweet. I will be around to answer any questions and to help you. AFTER TEN MINUTES, I WILL ASK IF THEY NEED MORE TIME, IF THEY DO, I WILL GIVE THEM THE 15 MINUTES. o You know when you tweet, you do not keep them for yourself only. You need an audience! o This is what we are going to do next: I want you to form groups of four to five people, and all have to have different articles. I think this need to be a challenge too! o Lets see how long it takes you to form groups. Last time, I did the groups and I want to see if you can beat me on speed. GO! o Now that you are in groups, share with your partners and decide whose tweeter is more creative and gives you good brief information about the article they read. o When it is your time to share your tweet with the group, say the name of the article and your tweet. AFTER THE STUDENTS SHARE IN SMALL GROUPS I WILL ASK THE STUDENTS TO SHARE WITH THE WHOLE CLASS THE TWEET THEY THOUGHT WILL HAVE MORE FOLLOWERS IN A REAL WORLD TWEETER. Closure (2 min):

o I am so exited to read all of your tweets! I bet you did a great job summarizing your articles in a creative way using only 140 characters. o I am sure you will remember that summarizing is like tweeting: you need to use few words of your own that are meaningful or important to describe something bigger. Doing a summary will help you understand a bigger piece of information better.

Strategies for students requiring additional assistance: o I will have easier articles for students who need an easier text to summarize. o If a student finishes earlier, I will give her/him the choice to read something of their choice of try and tweet about a different article.

Name: Mrs. Rodriguez Date: April 20, 2012 Content Area: ELA Grade Level: 8th

Kids' crazy car gets 160 miles per gallon Although it's decorated with flaming duct tape and its driver is equipped with a crash helmet, a harness-style seatbelt and a fire extinguisher, the main point is not how fast Edgerton High School's super vehicle can go. It's all about the gas mileage. With unleaded gasoline topping $3.90 a gallon, the Wisconsin high school's Supermileage Vehicle Club could be the envy of any driver stuck with a fuel-guzzling pickup truck or SUV. The eight-member, engineering class/student club, which is in its third year, is finishing work on two gas-powered super-mileage vehicles built to compete in two fuel-efficiency competitions this spring. One of the vehicles, a one-seat, three-wheeled model that students built last year, got 160 mpg in a competition last spring. Edgerton's Supermileage Vehicle Club is a fall-semester, for-credit course that morphs into a club activity in the spring. Students who take the class spend thousands of hours engineering, designing, building and rebuilding one-seat vehicles. The project starts with a frame and wheels and gets more complex as work on the transmission, engine and steering systems comes into play. Every decision students make from wheel type to body weight to gear ratio must factor in friction, drag and aerodynamics. In competitions this spring, Edgerton will face other student clubs from around the state, some with vehicles capable of running at 300 to 500 mpg.

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There's an app for that for cats A Los Angeles animal shelter that lets its cats chase toys on top of iPads hope the digital art created by the movement will encourage donations of money and tablet computers. An Animal Planet crew visited the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles for the April 14 episode of "Must Love Cats," where they documented how four cats used an app called Paint for Cats. The results were so compelling that the shelter turned them into notecards. The cards with drawings named "Study in Feather Toys" and "Movement in Catnip" are being sold online for $5.99 a pack. Shelter president Madeline Bernstein says the cats had so much fun, they put used iPads on their wish list so other cats can paint, too.

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Like your iPhone? Thank Harrodsburg, KY

One of the most innovative gadgets in a generation the Apple iPhone would not have hit the market in 2007 were it not for a 60-year-old glass factory in this Central Kentucky town of 8,300 people. The plant owned by the New York-based Corning Inc. has been a longtime fixture in Harrodsburg. But its pivotal role in enabling the worldwide sale of millions of iPhones was not widely known until October, when a biography of Steve Jobs, the late Apple cofounder and chief executive, was published. In his best-selling biography, journalist Walter Isaacson tells how Jobs challenged Corning to begin churning out a durable, scratch-resistant material called Gorilla Glass for the iPhone's screen.Apple originally had planned for the iPhone to have a plastic screen, Isaacson wrote. But Jobs decided the device would "feel much more elegant and substantive if the screens were glass." According to a separate account in The New York Times, Jobs resolved to get a glass screen after carrying around an iPhone prototype in his pocket and finding its plastic screen marred by tiny scratches. Isaacson says that Corning CEO Wendell Weeks told Jobs about an ultrastrong glass that the company had developed in the 1960s but shelved because it never found a market. It was called Gorilla Glass, and Jobs wanted to buy as much of it as Corning could produce in six months. Responding to the impatient Jobs' challenge, the Harrodsburg plant quickly went from making liquid crystal display (LCD) glass for products such as televisions and monitors to manufacturing Gorilla Glass for the first run of iPhones. On the day the iPhone hit the market, Jobs sent Weeks a message: "We couldn't have done it without you." Joe Dunning, a spokesman at Corning's headquarters in Corning, N.Y., declined to verify the details of Isaacson's account. But since the book's publication, Corning has publicly acknowledged its relationship with Apple. It had previously been bound by a nondisclosure agreement that designers like Apple use to keep their competitors from learning too much about their operations, Dunning said. "What we can now say is that we have supplied the glass for iPhones since 2007," he said. Apple acknowledges its relationship with Corning, too. On its website, the company includes as an example of American jobs it supports: "Corning employees in Kentucky and New York who create the majority of the glass for iPhone."

A Corning fact sheet corrects one minor aspect of the book's story. Gorilla Glass was not actually developed in the 1960s, it says, though the company drew on expertise it gained while experimenting with strengthened glass during that era.
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You snooze, you lose: Clock kicks you out of bed There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time. It could be the world's most exasperating alarm clock. Once it goes off, to stop it you must get out of bed, go into the kitchen or bathroom, and punch the day's date into a telephone-style keypad. That's the only way to stop the loud 'ding-ding,' designed to sound like a customer angrily banging on a concierge bell at a hotel. It was invented by Paul Sammut, a 25-year-old engineer. "I wanted to make something that would essentially force me to get out of bed when I wanted to get out of bed the night before," said Sammut. "And I was thinking about ways of doing it and I thought about how in high school I had the perfect solution to this, which was my mother, and how she would, if it was time for me to wake up, she would force me out of bed." "Now I wake up before it goes off," said Sammut. "I subconsciously fear it and know I have to get up." After a friend suggested he try and sell the device, he made a video demonstrating it, and posted that on kickstarter.com. That's a website where the general public can support creative ideas by investing in them financially. He acknowledges there is one way to stop the alarm without getting out of bed. "You could smash it," said Sammut. Prices start at $200.
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Is an evil red dwarf bedeviling Detroit? Detroit is nearly broke, and the mayor is recovering from surgery. Maybe it's because of an evil red dwarf suspected of casting a spell centuries ago. Some 3,000 people in masks, feathers and beads turned out Sunday for a third annual light-hearted parade to rid Detroit of that devil and his cruel intentions. People who thought force might be necessary carried pitchforks. Shari Lombardo of Grosse Pointe dressed her dog in a tutu. "I read on the (event) website that anything goes; that's obviously true," said Lombardo. "Anything that's new and different is good for the city." The tale goes that a red dwarf cast a spell on Detroit 300 years ago after being struck with a cane by one of the city's founders, Antoine Cadillac. A man dressed as the feared dwarf taunted spectators by declaring, "I own this town." "Do you think this silly parade is going to get rid of me?" he said before being lowered to a stage from a crane. Detroit lately has been taking its lumps. City and state officials are trying to strike a deal to manage Detroit's poor finances. Mayor Dave Bing is recovering from surgery on a perforated intestine. He was hospitalized Thursday just three days before the parade. Organizer Peter Van Dyke said plans already are in the works for future events. "We plan to keep this going for a very long time," he said.
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Tornado-hit Indiana school wins Lady Antebellum A southern Indiana high school wrecked by tornadoes won a free concert by country music stars Lady Antebellum on Tuesday thanks to a rival school that, along with students in other states, advocated on the battered school's behalf in an online contest. Schools from as far away as northern Wisconsin submitted YouTube videos urging the Grammy-winning group to choose Henryville High School in the band's "Own the Night" contest offering the winning school a concert at its prom. Henryville's schools were heavily damaged when powerful tornadoes ripped through the region earlier this month, killing 13 people. The winning video was entered by students at longtime sports rival Silver Creek High School in nearby Sellersburg, Ind. Henryville also got video support from a southern Illinois community hit by a fatal tornado in February. "It meant a lot to us and made a lot of people cry. Knowing there's that many people out there that cared to give it to us instead of their own prom," said 17-year-old Henryville junior Daniele Kats. She said word spread quickly on Facebook about Lady Antebellum's choosing her school for the concert, adding: "It's gonna be awesome." Lady Antebellum said the band was touched by Henryville's "story, resilience and unity following devastating tornadoes." Because of a scheduling conflict, the trio won't be able to perform at Henryville's prom on April 27, so a concert will be held for juniors and seniors in nearby Louisville, Ky., on May 16, followed by a benefit for the community. Lady Antebellum singer Charles Kelley said Henryville students shouldn't be disappointed that the band won't be able to visit their community. "Trust me, we have something even bigger in store," Kelley said in the band's video announcing the win. Fellow singer Hillary Scott added: "See you soon, Henryville!"

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A baseball card worth more than a million? A suburban St. Louis man who has been in the collectibles business for a quarter of a century, says the 102-year-old baseball card he's putting up for auction starting Tuesday is about as good as it gets. Bill Goodwin expects the 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card one of the most soughtafter sports collectibles in the world to fetch at least $1 million, and perhaps as much as $1.5 million, in the online auction. The 2-1/2-inch by 1-1/2-inch baseball card was released in cigarette packs sold by the American Tobacco Co. from 1909 to 1911. Wagner is a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest players of his era. Nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman," he spent most of his 21year career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, winning eight batting titles and hitting a career . 327. But what makes the card special is that it was pulled from circulation after about 200 were issued. For years, the consensus was that Wagner didn't want to encourage smoking, especially to children. Goodwin noted, though, that Wagner was photographed with chewing tobacco in his mouth and did advertisements for tobacco companies. Historians believe about 60 of the 1909 Wagner cards still exist, but many are in poor condition. Based on a rating system by Sportscard Guarantee Corp., the quality of the card Goodwin is auctioning is better than all but five of the Wagner cards in existence, he said. In 2011, Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick paid a record $2.8 million for the highest-graded Wagner card in existence. "Every time a Wagner goes up for auction it seems to go higher and higher and higher," said Bob Snyder of Dave and Adam's Card World in Buffalo, N.Y., which claims to be the world's largest baseball card dealer. Frank Ceresi, a baseball historian whose FC Associates provides appraisals of sports collectibles, said the value of vintage sports memorabilia remains strong. "Because of the Wagner mystique you can never overestimate the value in the market," Ceresi said. "When you get into the real rare, cool old stuff like a Wagner card, they come up so infrequently that you never know where that price might go."

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Is bullfighting a sport or animal cruelty? A Spanish bullfighter who lost sight in one eye and has limited movement in his face after a terrifying attack returned to the bullring Sunday, five months after his injury. On Oct. 8, a bull's horn ripped into Juan Jose Padilla's lower jaw and caused his left eyeball to stick out. Now, wearing an eye patch and speaking with a lisp, Padilla fulfilled what he describes as an unquenchable desire to once again face massive 1,100-pound fighting bulls with the aid of only a cape and sword. The 38-year-old Padilla, the star attraction at the southwestern town of Olivenza's annual taurine festival, said he was returning to the ring because of a need "to win, to triumph, to be a better man." A capacity crowd of about 5,400 people, including die-hard connoisseurs, fashion models and well-known personalities, had packed into this town's historic bullring, which was built in 1854. The matador, who is also known by his professional name of "the Cyclone of Jerez," wore a glittering matador's "suit of lights" outfit that had been made for the occasion in gold braid and olive green, "for hope," according to his tailor, Justo Algaba. Stitching on the suit traced the shape of laurel leaves because "they were used to crown the brows of audacious combatants and great heroes," Algaba said.

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