Eating Disorders

We began with Ms. Barsky reading the first chapter from a novel called Skin and students wrote a personal response to the chapter.  Ms. Barsky encouraged students to write questions, emotional reactions, connections, likes/dislikes and to avoid plot summary.  These were collected.

Then, students read the first four sections of an article called, "Eating Disorders" with a goal of summarizing the main points.  We worked through the four sections as a class, once students had an opportunity to read and summarize on their own.  We noted that many details and examples could be left out of the summary, as they didn't represent main ideas, but were explanations and elaborations of main points.  We will finish reading the article next class.