Synthesizing What We Read On The Internet - 1

1. Synthesizing What We Read On The Internet - 1 Mrs. Gibbs Berea Middle School 7th Grade ELA

2. Lesson 23 Synthesizing

3. What is Synthesizing? • Synthesize: Take ideas from several places and combine them into our own personal understanding. • Analogy: When a detective pulls together clues to solve a mystery • CSI - Miami

4. Synthesizing Information • Source 2 • notes • Source 1 • notes • My New Understanding: • In my head • In my writing • Source 3 • notes • Source 4 • notes

5. Reading for Synthesizing • Activate prior knowledge. • Scan for key words. • Read it through once to get the main idea • Read it again and pause to think/discuss. • Summarize the information • Add a personal response

6. Create a Mnemonic for Synthesizing • Silly sentence • 1st letter mnemonic • Activate Prior knowledge …. • Scan… • Read for the main idea… • Read with pauses… • Summarize… • Add personal response… • Think/Pair/Share

7. Let’s Practice… The realities were obvious. It was flat, treeless country where you couldn't count on rain, and the wind blew all the time. On old maps it had been sensibly labeled The Great American desert.

8. Practice Together

9. Practice Online Together • Go to Mrs. Gibbs’ Web site • Click on the link for the PBS Dustbowl • Click on the link for People and Places • Click on the link for Bam White

10. Read for Synthesis • A – Activate prior knowledge • S – Scan for key words • R1– Read once for main idea • R2- Read with pauses to think • S – Summarize • A – Add a personal response

11. Paragraph 1: A S R R • Bam White, the father of Melt White, was the unlikely star of a classic documentary about the Dust Bowl by filmmaker Pare Lorenz. Earning a month's wages in two hours, White had no idea what the film was about. "The Plow that Broke the Plains" was a propaganda film promoting the New Deal's agricultural reforms. White played the original farmer who plowed the Great Plains, breaking the pristine ground with the farming techniques that would lead to the disaster of the Dust Bowl.

12. Paragraph 1: S R

13. Paragraph 2: A S R R Lorenz had wanted to create a series of government documentaries covering the full range of American life. He presented his idea to Rexford Guy Tugwell, Director of the Resettlement Administration, which would later become the Farm Security Administration. Tugwell had already planned on creating an extensive photographic record of the agency's work and those affected by it, so he was very receptive to the idea of using film to educate the public. Under his program, photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Arthur Siskind and Marian Post Wolcott, would produce an archive of more than a quarter of a million photographs depicting life during the Great Depression.

14. Paragraph 2: S R

15. Paragraph 3: A S R R Drawn by images of the Great Plains, Lorenz and Tugwell agreed that the first subject would be the Dust Bowl. "The Plow that Broke the Plains," completed in 1936, was a propaganda film promoting the New Deal's agricultural reforms. Lorenz had hoped to have the thirty-minute film distributed as a short by a major film studio, but studios, also hit hard by the Depression, were playing it safe by shying away from controversial subjects, focusing instead on Shirley Temple films, period dramas, and screwball comedies. The film was shown at a few independent theatres and received some critical success.

16. Paragraph 3: S R

17. Synthesis In the 1930’s, the government wanted to make films about life in America and changes they were making. The first film was “The Plow that Broke the Plains” in 1936. Bam White starred as the farmer, even though he didn’t know what the film was about. Because the big movie companies weren’t interested in it, the film was not seen by many people.

18. Blog it! • Go to TICA Bulldogs Web Site (on Mrs. Gibb’s page) • Click on New Post • Type in (or copy/paste) your Synthesis • Click Post • View Blog