BCR Day

Today we continued our Paul is SMART lesson with an in-class timed BCR (Brief Constructed Response).

AIM: I will write a BCR using facts from the textbook and the MEAL format.

Standard: 7.W. E. 3 Writing reports by answering the question and ordering facts logically.

Lesson Steps:
Students started class by grading their Do Nows and counting up all their bricks. Once they handed these two items in they had to translate this sentence: "A band of physicists provoked a famine by consuming all the predators on the veldt." Students used their knowledge of these vocabulary words to rewrite this sentence into "everyday language."

We then got our textbooks and a BCR organizer. Students were given 30 minutes to read two pages of the text and to answer this question: "How did farming change the way people lived?" Students were reminded to use evidence from the text to answer the question and to write in a complete MEAL paragraph format. These paragraphs were handed in before the end of the period.

Homework: We will have short quiz tomorrow on how to set up a bow tie time line. review yesterday's handout.