1 / 5

Objective

Objective. Objective: Students will improve their critical thinking skills by reading articles on genetically modified foods and writing a paper supporting their opinion with facts from the articles. GIST. A GIST is a short summery of a story or article.

diza
Download Presentation

Objective

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Objective • Objective: Students will improve their critical thinking skills by reading articles on genetically modified foods and writing a paper supporting their opinion with facts from the articles

  2. GIST • A GIST is a short summery of a story or article. • The GIST is a summary of exactly 20 words. • With a group of 3 people, use your notes from the 5 W’s and an H to write a GIST for the article you read on Friday. • Use a table like the one below to write your GIST IN YOUR LAB BOOK • Be ready to share in about 10 minutes

  3. Genetically Modified Foods • You will be reading 2 articles that talk about specific foods that have been modified. • While you read these articles, use a web to record facts/reasons presented in the articles to support your opinion on this subject. • You may use facts/reasons from the article you read Friday also.

  4. On your loose leaf paper use a web like the one below to record facts and reasons to support your opinion. You should have at least 3 facts/reasons from each of the articles to support your opinion Opinion Fact Fact Fact Reason Reason Reason

  5. Opinion Paper • Once you are done, write an opinion piece trying to persuade someone to your side. • Use the facts and reasons from your web as support in your paper. • Write on a separate sheet of paper to be turned in on Monday.

More Related