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Gary Soto – Seventh Grade

Seventh Grade – Gary Soto 

This task is all about efficiency and how we can improve, this is because this week’s work is short and simple unlike other tasks in the past. And we are reading Seventh Grade by Gary Soto. Click the title above to read it yourself! Or listen my very own voice over of the story it the bottom of this blog post.

Contents on this blog post.

  1. Story question/Response to Text
  2. My voice over rubric
  3. The voice over itself

WALT:

  • To monitor ourselves to fully complete the task.
  • To read out loud with expression and fluency.

What is our success criteria?

  • Make sure that the task is completed by Friday.
  • I will read clearly with punctuation.

First some questions

Answer the following questions about Seventh Grade.

Scroll down to see the voiceover and it’s rubric.

 

 

Question Answer
What background information do you learn about Victor? Victor is a boy in Fresno who went to Saint Theresa’s with Teresa who is Victor’s crush.
When the boys scowl, the girls look at them. What might the girls be thinking? The girls think that they might be nice but won’t take it seriously.
What obstacles are getting in the way of Victor making Teresa “his girl”? Won’t speak confidently and French properly.
How does the tension increase now that Victor and Teresa are in the same class together? The tension already encrusted when Victor had a thought about Teresa being in French class with him because Teresa was in French back Saint Theresa’s.
Why did the teacher turn his back and walk to the blackboard? To make the class sing the lyrics on the blackboard.

Or to not make Victor embarrassed.
The French teacher, Mr. Bueller, realises that Victor is faking his knowledge of French, yet he does not let on about it. What impression does Mr. Bueller’s action tell you about him as a person and as a teacher? He is a pretty chill teacher, I think that he doesn’t yell that much and he resolves problems whether it’s awkwardly faking French and helping people do french.

 

CREATE TASK:

Create an audiobook version of the story. 

  • Using Online Voice Recorder or another recording tool, record yourself reading ‘Seventh Grade’. 
  • Make sure you listen to this version first. Try to read at a similar speed and tone. 
  • Record yourself for at least 5 minutes. 
  • Listen back to yourself reading and score yourself using this rubric
  • Share you’re recording and marked rubric on your blog

 

Voice Over Rubric

This is a rubric for my voice over version of Seventh Grade.

 If you don’t know what a rubric is, a rubric is an awesome way to record data and mark your own work. There will be 4 topics that will score from 1-4 and then out of 16 overall. In this case, it is to show how fluent my reading was in the recording aka the voice over. So I recommend listening to the voice over BEFORE checking the rubric.

 And to listen to my voice over, listen to it below this slideshow.

 

The Voice over

This is the voice over to Seventh Grade made by ME. It also includes a short description of who Gary Soto is as extra because I was having a fun time that day.

PS: I didn’t say the French teacher (Mr Bueller) correctly so please bear with me near the end of the story, Thanks!

Pseudoscience Task

Pseudoscience Task
Walt: Find and link information across a range of texts

Task
Work on this Doc together with a partner.

What was the author’s main message in pseudoscience
Big brands tell people false facts to make more people buy the product.

What are some of the differences between scientists and advertisers?
Scientists
Advertisers
They discover new things.
Think of ideas to advertise the product.

Write 3 sentences explaining something new you’ve learned from this reading.
In 2004, big blackcurrant company Ribena was fined 210 thousand dollars for the misleading vitamin C commercials.
Back in World War 2, The British government was telling soldiers to eat carrots because it can give you better eyesight. This was true because of vitamin A but eating more carrots won’t enhance your eyesight.
In 2014, a newspaper was telling people that eating chocolate can improve your memory, and they weren’t wrong, because in the cocoa beans, there was this chemical called flavanols that can improve memory, but the process of making chocolate bars will destroy the flavanols.

True or False
Statement
True/False
Slide/Page Number
Evidence
A pseudonym is a false name
True
2
The book says “a “pseudonym” is a false name that people use
instead of their real name.”
Blackcurrants have vitamin D
True
3
They do have a lot of vitamin D but the drink does not have any.
Flavanols help people remember things
True

4
Flavanols are in cocoa beans.
Scientists critique each other
True
5
The books says “Scientists write so their work and ideas can be
critiqued by other scientists.”
Carrots have vitamin A
True
6
The book says “Carrots have vitamin
A in them, and vitamin A is
important for healthy eyes.
But eating extra carrots won’t
improve your night vision.”

Carrots help us see in the dark
False
6
While carrot do have vitamin A, they don’t give us the fact they we still can’t see in the dark.