“Social Networks”

1. “Social Networks” 9A Teacher Directed Module

2. Essential Questions • Do our personalities change whenwe go online? • Does social media act like a substitute for “real” relationships? • Does social media enhance our social lives?

3. Getting Ready to ReadQuick Write- hot pen! Answer the following questions. You can answer in paragraph form or in bullets. • Do you use any social networking sites? • If so, how often? • What are the main reasons you use these sites?

4. End Goal- Narrative EssayOption 1 • Think about a specific time when social media has either enhanced your social life or has replaced real relationships. Think about specific details that you can use to tell about this event. Your narrative should show readers how this event either enhanced orreplaced a real relationship. Give specifics and explain how this time changed you or changed your use of social media.

5. End Goal- Narrative EssayOption 2 • Reflect back on when you first started using social media. How did your use of social media change your relationships? Did it enhance them or replace real ones? Your narrative should start with how you were before using social media and take your readers through the changes in your life because of social media. Readers should know the details of the change, and they should know how you feel about the changes that occurred.

6. Exploring Key Concepts • In your group brainstorm the different types of social media and their uses. What are their pros and cons? • Working with your group, fill in the different columns for the 4 different types of social media that you think play the biggest roles in your lives. • Remember to share your google doc with Mrs. Quintero.

7. Activity 4: Understanding Key Vocabulary Complete this table with these five words from the anchor text.

8. Complete this table with five words from the second text you’ve chosen.

9. Making Predictions- “Is Facebook Making You Mean?” • Read the title, look at the pictures and graphs and read the subtitles. Based on what you read and saw, what do you think the article will be about? • Based on what I read and saw, I believe this article will be about ___________________. • Read the introduction. What do you think is the author’s purpose will be in writing this text? How do you know? • The author is going to try to convince me that ____________________________. I know because the author writes, “_________________.

10. First Read- with the grain • # the paragraphs- write numbers next to the first words in each paragraph and circle them. • Circle: • Key terms or data- refer back to the Essential Questions and key vocabulary • Underline: • Information that support’s your prediction about the author’s purpose. • Margin notes • Clarify • Summarize • Connect • Illustrate

11. 2nd Read- Against the Grain • This is where we question and try to understand the text. • Connect • Respond • Questions

12. Text Dependent Questions • Why would the author include the example of what Anna posted on Facebook? • What new information can you learn or identify with from the picture on the first page of the article? • What is this author’s message to her readers? • What evidence does the author use to show that Facebook is making us mean? • What evidence does the author use to show that Facebook helps us to be kind?

13. Process Write for “Is Facebook Making you Mean?” –Hot Pen • Describe a time when you wrote something on someone’s page or snapchatted someone, and they misunderstood you? • Describe a time when someone wrote something that came across as mean or you misunderstood what they said. • Describe a time when you wrote something that you know you would have never said in person.

14. Author’s Purpose • Look back at your prediction. Were you correct? Is there anything that you should add? • How did the author try to convince us? What type of rhetoric did she use?

15. Activity 7: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Watch the video on Ethos, Pathos, and Logos below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpTb2RjbMn4

16. IXL??? • Audience, purpose, and tone • HH.1Identify audience and purpose • HH.2Compare passages for tone • HH.3Compare passages for subjective and objective tone • HH.4Which text is most formal? • HH.5Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements • HH.6Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing

17. Questions to Ask Ourselves • Questions about Logic (Logos) • Do you think this article is convincing? Why or why not? • What claims are included? • Do you think there is any argument that the author purposely leaves out? If so, what? • Questions about the writer (Ethos) • What do you know about the author’s background? Do you think this makes her credible? • Does the writer appear to have knowledge about the issues she presents? • What does the author’s style and tone tell you about her? • Is this author trustworthy? Why or why not? • Questions about Emotions (Pathos) • Do any of the stories within the article affect you emotionally? Which ones? • Do you think the author is trying to manipulate you in any way? • Do you think the author overreacts in the way she presents any of the examples? • Does the author use humor? Does this make you buy in to her message more or less?

18. 3rd Read- LT Read • Highlight examples of ethos, pathos, logos • Complete SOAPSTONE

19. Activity 7: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos (continued) Complete these frames with examples from the articles. ________ uses logos (facts, logic) when he /she includes / writes “______.” This logic is convincing / unconvincing because _____________. The article “_____________________” uses pathos (emotion) when it refers to ___________________________________ The emotion(s) it attempts to use is / are guilt, sadness, disappointment, anger, fear. An example of ethos (authority) from the article “_____” is the author’s reference to___________, who says that _______________________. This attempt to establish credibility succeeds / fails because _________.

20. Making Predictions- “Can Social Media Actually Benefit Relationships?” • Read the title and read the subtitles. Based on what you read, what do you think the article will be about? • Based on what I read and saw, I believe this article will be about ___________________. • Read the introduction. What do you think is the author’s purpose will be in writing this text? How do you know? • The author is going to try to convince me that ____________________________. I know because the author writes, “_________________.

21. Text Dependent Questions • How does the author use subtitles to help you gain information? • What does the author want us to know about social media? • What ideas in the text support the essential questions? • What ideas in the text go against the essential question? • What did you learn after reading this article?

22. First Read- with the grain • # the paragraphs- write numbers next to the first words in each paragraph and circle them. • Circle: • Key terms or data- refer back to the Essential Questions and key vocabulary • Underline: • Information that support’s your prediction about the author’s purpose. • Margin notes • Clarify • Summarize • Connect • Illustrate

23. 2nd Read- Against the Grain • This is where we question and try to understand the text. • Connect • Respond • Questions

24. Process Write • This author believes that social media can have positive effects on our lives. • What is one way that social media has positively effected your life? • Do you agree with the author? What parts of this article do you disagree with?

25. Questions to Ask Ourselves • Questions about Logic (Logos) • Do you think this article is convincing? Why or why not? • What claims are included? • Do you think there is any argument that the author purposely leaves out? If so, what? • Questions about the writer (Ethos) • What do you know about the author’s background? Do you think this makes her credible? • Does the writer appear to have knowledge about the issues she presents? • What does the author’s style and tone tell you about her? • Is this author trustworthy? Why or why not? • Questions about Emotions (Pathos) • Do any of the stories within the article affect you emotionally? Which ones? • Do you think the author is trying to manipulate you in any way? • Do you think the author overreacts in the way she presents any of the examples? • Does the author use humor? Does this make you buy in to her message more or less?

26. 3rd Read- LT Read • Highlight examples of ethos, pathos, logos • Complete SOAPSTONE

27. Activity 7: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos (continued) Complete these frames with examples from the articles. ________ uses logos (facts, logic) when he /she includes / writes “______.” This logic is convincing / unconvincing because _____________. The article “_____________________” uses pathos (emotion) when it refers to ___________________________________ The emotion(s) it attempts to use is / are guilt, sadness, disappointment, anger, fear. An example of ethos (authority) from the article “_____” is the author’s reference to___________, who says that _______________________. This attempt to establish credibility succeeds / fails because _________.

28. Making Predictions- “Antisocial Networking” • Read the title. Based on what you read, what do you think the article will be about? • Based on what I read and saw, I believe this article will be about ___________________. • Read the introduction. What do you think is the author’s purpose will be in writing this text? How do you know? • The author is going to try to convince me that ____________________________. I know because the author writes, “_________________.

29. Text Dependent Questions • Why does the author begin with the dialogue between the girl and boy? • Does the author believe that people should be worried about how technology is affecting relationships? How do you know? • What is the most important point in this article? How do you know?

30. First Read- with the grain • # the paragraphs- write numbers next to the first words in each paragraph and circle them. • Circle: • Key terms or data- refer back to the Essential Questions and key vocabulary • Underline: • Information that support’s your prediction about the author’s purpose. • Margin notes • Clarify • Summarize • Connect • Illustrate

31. 2nd Read- Against the Grain • This is where we question and try to understand the text. • Connect • Respond • Questions

32. Process Write • In the article, the author quotes Gary Small who said, “even though young digital natives are very good with tech skills, they are weak with the face-to-face human contact skills.” • Describe a time when people were having a conversation in person and you had a hard time understanding them. Do you think it would have been easier to understand them if they were texting or snap chatting the conversation? Why or why not? • Describe a time when you had a conversation via technology instead of face-to-face. Why did you decide to use the technology? What was the outcome of the conversation?

33. Questions to Ask Ourselves • Questions about Logic (Logos) • Do you think this article is convincing? Why or why not? • What claims are included? • Do you think there is any argument that the author purposely leaves out? If so, what? • Questions about the writer (Ethos) • What do you know about the author’s background? Do you think this makes her credible? • Does the writer appear to have knowledge about the issues she presents? • What does the author’s style and tone tell you about her? • Is this author trustworthy? Why or why not? • Questions about Emotions (Pathos) • Do any of the stories within the article affect you emotionally? Which ones? • Do you think the author is trying to manipulate you in any way? • Do you think the author overreacts in the way she presents any of the examples? • Does the author use humor? Does this make you buy in to her message more or less?

34. 3rd Read- LT Read • Highlight examples of ethos, pathos, logos • Complete SOAPSTONE

35. Activity 7: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos (continued) Complete these frames with examples from the articles. ________ uses logos (facts, logic) when he /she includes / writes “______.” This logic is convincing / unconvincing because _____________. The article “_____________________” uses pathos (emotion) when it refers to ___________________________________ The emotion(s) it attempts to use is / are guilt, sadness, disappointment, anger, fear. An example of ethos (authority) from the article “_____” is the author’s reference to___________, who says that _______________________. This attempt to establish credibility succeeds / fails because _________.

36. Reflection: Reading and Annotating a Text • What are some different strategies that we used while reading the texts for this module? • Which strategies did you find most helpful?

37. Essential Questions • Do our personalities change whenwe go online? • Does social media act like a substitute for “real” relationships? • Does social media enhance our social lives?

39. End Goal- Narrative EssayOption 1 • Think about a specific time when social media has either enhanced your social life or has replaced real relationships. Think about specific details that you can use to tell about this event. Your narrative should show readers how this event either enhanced orreplaced a real relationship. Give specifics and explain how this time changed you or changed your use of social media.

40. End Goal- Narrative EssayOption 2 • Reflect back on when you first started using social media. How did your use of social media change your relationships? Did it enhance them or replace real ones? Your narrative should start with how you were before using social media and take your readers through the changes in your life because of social media. Readers should know the details of the change, and they should know how you feel about the changes that occurred.

41. Organizing Our Writing • Before writing you need to think about your answers to the following: • What is your tentative thesis ? What specific time or change are you going to write about? • Can you tell the story and develop it in order to support your thesis? • What background information is needed for your narrative? • What, if any, evidence from the social networking articles could be used in your essay?

42. Thesis • What is your thesis going to be? • Will you use any of the events you wrote about in the process writes? • Create a plan or outline of your narrative to make sure you have enough to tell the story.

43. Introduction • How will you begin your narrative? • Will you use anything from your process writes? • How will you tie in your introduction to your thesis?

44. Body paragraphs • Plan out the events of your narrative. • A good narrative has a beginning, middle, and end. • The details you choose to include need to tie into your thesis. • Can you use anything from your process writes?

45. Conclusion • This paragraph needs to bring your narrative to a close and tie it back into the topic of the essay. • How has this event changed you and made you who you are today? • Would you do things differently if given the chance? Or do them the same way? • What advice would you give others? • Can you use anything from your process writes?

46. Peer-Editing Protocol • You need to assess your work using the rubric before having others assess. • 2 people must assess your work using the rubric. • Look at the changes they suggested. Do you agree with them?

47. Important Questions to Consider before turning in your essay • Have I responded to the assignment? • What is my purpose for this essay? • What should I keep? What is most effective? • What should I add? Where do I need more details, to support my point? • What should I get rid of? Are parts of my essay confusing or contradictory? Do I need to explain my ideas more fully? • What should I rethink> Was my position clear? Did I provide enough analysis to convince my readers? • How was my tone? Am I too overbearing or too firm? Do I need qualifiers? • Does my conclusion show the significance of my essay? • Have I used key vocabulary words correctly to represent the topic?