Transcript AVID Focus Lesson Income and segregation in Housing

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AVID FOCUS LESSON
INCOME AND SEGREGATION IN HOUSING
PREPARING TO READ-DISCUSS

In small groups, discuss the following prompt: If
you were given enough money to buy a home of
your choice in any neighborhood, where would
you choose to live? Explain.
PREPARING TO READ-WRITE
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On a separate sheet of paper from your notebook,
respond to the following prompt: Think about your
neighborhood. Your street. The people who live
on your street. How many people are wealthy?
How many struggle financially? What does the
neighborhood look like? Sound like? Do you have
nice stores, schools, and medical facilities nearby?
Give someone who is unfamiliar with your
neighborhood a good description of where you live.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT-DISCUSS
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Key Concepts:
 Poverty
 Minorities
 Segregation
 Housing
market
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT-WRITE
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Look up the following words in the dictionary.
You may have to share with others.
 Affluent
(par.1)
 Persistent (par. 1)
 Metropolitan (par. 2)
 Census (par. 5)
 Exacerbate (par. 11)
 Disproportionate (par. 18)
PRE-READING: SURVEY THE TEXT
Report on what you see. Are there subtitles?
Is the text divided into sections? What is the
length of the individual paragraphs? Scan the
text and write down how long it is.
 Make predictions based on what you see so far
and the vocabulary words you looked up: What
will this text be about?
 Now read the first and last paragraphs and
make another prediction.
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FIRST READ
Number the paragraphs first
 Then read the article: You are to remain quiet
while reading. You must stay quiet while
waiting for others to finish.
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SECOND READ
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Circle and underline information relevant to the
reading task.
 We
will go through and do this as a class.
THIRD READ
Summarize and Clarify
 Write one or two summary sentences for each
section.
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Key Points
(pars.)
1
4
5-8
11
13-15
18-20
21
Summary Sentence (s)