1. Politics of Food Day 9

2. 2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, and online information. 2.3 Write reflective compositions: a. Explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns by using rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, exposition, persuasion). b. Draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer's important beliefs or generalizations about life. c. Maintain a balance in describing individual incidents and relate those incidents to more general and abstract ideas. Students will be able to… – Discuss and elaborate upon their opinions, ideas, and questions about a text. – Develop questions to facilitate discussion of a text. – Question credibility, effectiveness, and rhetorical appeals in media and texts. – Identify the different elements and parts of a text. – Analyze stylistic and structural elements of a text – Summarize and respond to a text

3. Essay Prompt Choices 1. Analyze your own diet or your family’s diet in light of the Pollan and Berry articles you have studied. Is it possible for you to eat a more healthy diet? Why or why not. 2. Analyze the five snacks foods that you consume regularly and determine how many corn byproducts you eat. Argue whether or not you have a healthy diet. 3. Imagine that you will be having Berry or Pollan (or both) to dinner. What would you serve them and where would you purchase your food? Why would you make your choices?

4. Essay Details Must include: – At least 3 cited sources (must be cited in text and on the works cited page.) – At least one counterargument and your rebuttal. – All aspects of the prompt. – Around 700 words.

5. Peer Edit Get into your groups. You will do two switches with your draft. – 1 st : ones switch to twos, twos to threes, threes to fours, fours to ones – 2 nd : switch in the same direction, one more time. Tell them what they did well, give them some suggestions about what they could improve on, and correct and mechanical (spelling, grammar, etc.) that you find.

6. Current Events Stay in your groups. You will be given a current article about a food issue. With your group: – Summarize the article – Decide how to present it to the class Each group will present their article. After each presentation your group will have a few minutes to come up with a question you want answered about the article. In the end, everyone’s paper should have: – A summary – A question for each article

7. YOUR FINAL DRAFT WILL BE DUE THROUGH TURNITIN.COM BY MIDNIGHT ON TUESDAY, 2/7/12