Today, we started with everyone having time to work on their roots and prefixes set 9 practice.
We will have the quiz on this material on Friday.
Next we looked at Pete Seeger and his occupation as a musician to help us prepare for our upcoming research project on occupations. Everyone responded to the prompt question based on the videos (all are available below).
Before watching the video we talked about direct observations versus inferential observations since the prompt question requires people to infer things about Pete Seeger.
Prompt:
How did Pete Seeger use his occupation as a musician to benefit society.
Video:
Some of the inferences people made about Seeger based on these videos were:
He is a caring person because he sings about peace and freedom.
He likes music because he is still singing and performing at 94.
He encourages people to sing along with him and this shows he enjoys people.
Other people said how he influenced them to become musicians so this shows he is a role model.
After watching the video, we read a New York Times article on Pete Seeger. While reading the article, everyone took note of facts that helped to reinforce and verify inferences made about him from the video.
For homework, everyone was asked to use two facts from this article to respond to the prompt question that we started with today
Homework:
Write a paragraph response to the question, "How did Pete Seeger use his occupation as a musician to positively contribute to society?" based on information from the New York Times article on Pete Seeger (your response should contain at least two quotes).
Study for the set 9 roots and prefixes quiz on Friday.
Roots and Prefixes Set 9 - Word List
Roots and Prefixes Set 9 - Practice
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