Day 4

Quickwrite – Activity #14 1. Have you ever gone fishing? Did you catch a fish? What did the fish do? How did it behave? Did you eat it? 2. What other experiences have you had with live fish? Do you have an aquarium at home? Have you been to a public aquarium? What did you learn from these experiences? 3. From your experiences, do you think that fish feel pain? Why or why not?

Summary – Activity #15  Use your descriptive outline to write a summary of the Rifkin article. Use the summary organizer to help you do this.  Summarize the article using the smallest number of sentences necessary.  Include all the most important points.  Make sure you use your own words: you are not quoting in a summary.  Make sure you keep your opinion out of the summary. A summary is about what the author wrote, not whether you agree or disagree.

Summary – Activity #16  Have a partner read your summary and evaluate it with the checklist on your handout.

Thinking Critically – Activity #17  Complete the thinking critically questions handout.  You may work together with your table group.  You will not receive points for this work until your entire group is finished.

Surveying the Text – Activity #18  “Hooked on a Myth; Do Fish Feel Pain?” by Victoria Braithwaite 1. Where and when was this article published? 2. Who wrote the article? Do you know anything about this writer? (Hint: Look at the beginning of the article.) How could you find out more? Is this writer more or less credible than Jeremy Rifkin? 3. What is title of the article? The subtitle? What do these words tell you about what the article might say? Can you make some predictions?

Reading with the Grain – Activity #19  Silently read through “Hooked on a Myth; Do Fish Feel Pain?” by Victoria Braithwaite  As you read: 1. Circle any words you do not know. 2. Annotate the article by writing questions and comments in the margins. ○ You need to make at least three annotations per page.