Junk Food at School: Is it your right—or totally wrong?

1. Junk Food at School: Is it your right—or totally wrong? Issue 2

2. Junk food at school: Is it your right—or totally wrong? • Give a thumbs up or down if you agree or disagree that you have the right to eat junk food at school. • Turn to page p.10 in your Issues book, to the Data File. This will build your knowledge about junk food at school so that you can discuss and write about it effectively. • Follow along as I read aloud, and be prepared to report one surprising statistic or a piece of information that catches your attention using one of the following frames: • A piece of information that caught my attention is ____. • One surprising statistic is that _____. Share with a partner, then I will choose a few students to share with the class.

3. Brainstorm Ideas • skim milk • soda • Assign letters A, B, C, or D. • In groups of 3 or 4, brainstorm and record additional ideas. • Students will share and report their ideas using the frames below. • While students share, members of other groups should add their ideas. • One example of a (healthy/junk food) that students eat is _____. • Another example of a (nutritious/unhealthy) food that students • eat is _____.

4. Words to Know Step One – Rate your knowledge of the word. 1 = you don’t know the word 2 = you recognize the word but aren’t sure what it means 3 = you are familiar with the word and can use it in a sentence 4 = you know the word and can teach it to the class Step Two – Group Discussion • Leader asks, “Are you familiar with the word ____?” of each group member and listens to his/her response, prompting students to share sentences and definitions if they can. • Group members respond with the following frames: 1 – No, I have never heard the word ____. 2 – I recognize ____; it has something to do with ____. 3 – I can use ____ in a sentence. For example, ______. 4 – I know the word ____. It means ______. • Leaders report the group’s word knowledge using one of the following frames: We have some understanding of the word ____, but we would benefit from a review of the word ____. We think ____ (means/has to do with) ______.

5. Words to Know Procedures Step Three – Teacher introduces word, part of speech, and meaning, as well as other forms of the word. Step Four – Teacher introduces the example frame and models an answer. Then, group members share ideas and record one. Lastly, one member of each group will stand and report their example sentence.

6. Words to Know – 1 & 2 emailing someone interesting to say that something The students at my school will must not be __________ ______________________________ ban ______________________ if the principal tries to ban cell verbphone use on campus. allowed to happen organize a protest

7. Words to Know 3 & 4 have the energy you need to get through the day. energy food a disease or other bad condition fights on reality television shows a sudden outbreak of ___ The high number of ____ ________________________ ________________________ epidemic ________________________ ________________________ noun that spreads quickly makes is seem as if we are suffering from an epidemic of bad behavior.

8. Words to Know 5 & 6 start a savings account college education. a lot of money something a person does My brother’s extreme spending habit _______________________, habit has caused him to _______ noun usually without thinking _______________________________ _______________________________ regularly owe many people and credit card companies money.

9. Words to Know 7 & 8 foods that are good for a person’s health providing examples of healthy foods. being so overweight Young children have health problems as adults. the condition of ________ ________________________ obesity ________________________ who suffer from obesity noun that it is dangerous are more likely to _______ ________________________ ________________________