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ELA - Blast Away! Draft

This assignment focuses on the importance of engaging with topical issues in order to develop a broader view of the world. Students will explore Blast background, brainstorm personal reasons, and create a tweet-like response synthesizing their research.

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ELA - Blast Away! Draft

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  1. ELA - Blast Away! Draft In your notebook or on scrap paper, draft your initial response to the driving question. This will provide you with a baseline response that you will be developing as you gain more information about the topic in the Background and Research Links sections of the assignment. The Blast review criteria are as follows: • Response does not address the Driving Question or is unclear; language is vague. • Response insufficiently addresses the Driving Question or is mostly unclear; language is mostly vague. • Response somewhat addresses the Driving Question or is somewhat unclear; language is somewhat vague. • Response adequately addresses the Driving Question and is clear; language is mostly precise. • Response fully addresses the Driving Question and is clear; language is precise.

  2. ELA - Blast Away! Read Read the Blast background.

  3. ELA - Blast Away! Discuss Pair up and discuss the following questions: • What are some ways you might already be thinking critically and voicing your opinion about current events? • What is a trending topic? What are some current trending topics? • What are some activities included in a StudySync Blast? • What are some opinions about our access to information? • What’s the point of responding using a Tweet-like response?

  4. ELA - Blast Away! Brainstorm Remember the Driving Question for this Blast, another version of the essential question for this unit: How does engaging with topical issues help develop our view of the world? In your notebook, make three columns, one for the Blast Background, one for themselves, and one for someone they know. Start with the Background and fill in reasons that the Blast suggests that engaging with topical issues is necessary for developing a world view. After that, apply the question to yourself to begin developing a list of reasons why you personally think engaging with topical issues helps to develop our view of the world. Lastly, think about someone specific you know and how they would respond to the driving question.

  5. ELA - Blast Away! Brainstorm example

  6. ELA - Blast Away! Predict What do you predict is the significance of the number? Why?

  7. ELA - Blast Away! Create your Blast ROUTINES: Blast: This is the Tweet-length response (140 characters) that you write to synthesize your research. While people can post whatever they want on Twitter, the best Tweets use formal language to effectively communicate their ideas. Include one or two hashtags(#) that represent themes or central ideas from your research. Review:The review activity allows you to anonymously comment on and rate peers’ responses on a scale of one to five stars. The Top Ten will feature student responses with the highest average of stars. Refresh your own page to see ratings and comments from your peers.

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