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Bell Work: What is a theme in The Giver? Give textual evidence and reasoning to support your identified theme.
*Classwork: Finish and review Group Expository Essays. Select 1 group member to present it aloud. Vote on the best expository essay without voting on yours.
*Read Ch. 12 in The Giver.
*With extra time, complete the Lazy Editor in SCOPE magazine, pgs. 28-29.

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TeachModel_Expository on Stress (SCOPE March 2017)

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4. On Thursday afternoons, we will reveal at the bottom of this post more information about the photo. How does reading the caption and learning its back story help you see the image differently?

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* See all images in this series or a slide show of 40 of our favorite images.

* Learn how other teachers use it.

* Read our introductory post.

* Find out about the philosophy, curriculum and professional development opportunities offered by Visual Thinking Strategies.

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This week's image comes from the March 3, 2017 " The Week in Pictures " slide show on the Lens blog. The original caption reads:

Deers crossed the path of an Indonesian honor guard preparing for the arrival of King Salman of Saudi Arabia at the presidential palace in Bogor on Wednesday.

You can read more about King Salman's monthlong tour in Asia to promote economic ties in this article. It begins:

You could call it bling diplomacy.

As part of a monthlong tour in Asia to promote economic ties, King Salman of Saudi Arabia arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday to great fanfare, accompanied, the news media said, by a retinue with a net worth in the billions of dollars, including about 1,500 people, among them 25 high-ranking princes, 10 ministers and more than 100 security personnel.

Over the last two weeks, they arrived in six Boeing passenger jets and one Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a military transport aircraft, carrying 506 tons of cargo, including two Mercedes-Benz S600 limousines and two electric elevators for the king's personal use. An Indonesian freight company told the Antara news agency that it employed 572 workers just to deal with the delegation's luggage. The king, 81, used a golden-hued escalator to descend from a jet painted with the words "God Bless You."

Pageantry is hardly unusual for any royal family, even less so for the Saudis, who are famously extravagant spenders even as their citizens are struggling under a government austerity program. Details about his entourage made headlines around the world, and appeared to overshadow the purpose of his trip.

But the size and pomp of the king's entourage may indicate efforts to strengthen trade ties with Asia at a time of falling oil prices, experts said: A demonstration of wealth can be a show of power. It involves "stroking egos and putting on a show: The Saudis are in town," said Peter Salisbury, a research fellow at Chatham House in London. "When that number of people show up, it creates a stir. It's symbolism."

Adek Berry is the photographer.

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What's Going On in This Picture? | April 24, 2017

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4. On Thursday afternoons, we will reveal at the bottom of this post more information about the photo. How does reading the caption and learning its back story help you see the image differently? _________ More? * See all images in this series or a slide show of 40 of our favorite images.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

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Perspective and point of view mini-lesson.
* Look at the picture below and quietly write down what you think is actually happening in this picture.  What types of questions did this bring to your mind? After you have written your caption and asking these questions, we will discuss what everyone thinks.
* During the class discussion, listen to the perspective of others.  Did your perspective and point of view change?
* Read Chapter 8; How is Jonas' perspective different from those in the audience?

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Updated: March 23, 2017 Students
1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:

* What is going on in this picture?

* What do you see that makes you say that?

* What more can you find?

2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)

3. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting another comment. Use the "Reply" button or the @ symbol to address that student directly.

Each Monday, our collaborator, Visual Thinking Strategies, will facilitate a discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time by paraphrasing comments and linking to responses to help students' understanding go deeper. You might use their responses as models for your own.

4. On Thursday afternoons, we will reveal at the bottom of this post more information about the photo. How does reading the caption and learning its back story help you see the image differently?

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More?
* See all images in this series or a slide show of 40 of our favorite images.

* Learn how other teachers use it.

* Read our introductory post.

* Find out about the philosophy, curriculum and professional development opportunities offered by Visual Thinking Strategies.

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Updated: March 23, 2017
This week's image comes from a post on the Lively Morgue, a Times Tumblr that features images chosen from The Times's "morgue," a physical library of photos and newspaper clippings dating to the mid-19th century. The original caption reads:

March 1980: "Please keep walking and react to the elephant," instructed the man with the megaphone who trailed the creature; apparently, it was for a film. But if this picture is any indication, it seems the window mannequins were more reactive than your average New Yorker, right, who just wanted to get where he was going."

Bill Cunningham was the photographer. After working for nearly 40 years for The Times, he died in 2016. His obituary begins:

Bill Cunningham, who turned fashion photography into his own branch of cultural anthropology on the streets of New York, chronicling an era's ever-changing social scene for The New York Times by training his busily observant lens on what people wore - stylishly, flamboyantly or just plain sensibly - died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 87.

His death was confirmed by The Times. He had been hospitalized recently after having a stroke.

Mr. Cunningham was such a singular presence in the city that, in 2009, he was designated a living landmark. And he was an easy one to spot, riding his bicycle through Midtown, where he did most of his field work: his bony-thin frame draped in his utilitarian blue French worker's jacket, khaki pants and black sneakers (he himself was no one's idea of a fashion plate), with his 35-millimeter camera slung around his neck, ever at the ready for the next fashion statement to come around the corner.

Nothing escaped his notice: not the fanny packs, not the Birkin bags, not the gingham shirts, not the fluorescent biker shorts.

In his nearly 40 years working for The Times, Mr. Cunningham snapped away at changing dress habits to chart the broader shift away from formality and toward something more diffuse and individualistic.

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What's Going On in This Picture? | March 20, 2017

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Updated: March 23, 2017 Students 1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions: * What is going on in this picture? * What do you see that makes you say that? * What more can you find? 2.

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Perspective and Point of View explanations

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Fiction writing tips, and general writing tips, by american female fiction author Sandra Miller. Includes section on writers block

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* How would you feel about Jonas' selection?
* Read Chapter 9 & 10
* As you read, make note in your writer's notebook of words and phrases that lead you to believe that Jonas' perspective and point of view may be developing.
*SCOPE (March 2017) pg. 30-31. Write a group expository text.

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* Read Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" and Lois Lowry's Acceptance Speech (below)
*Read Chapter 11 & 12

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Practice