Fast Food

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Fast Food

• Whos to Blame?

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Reading selections for unit

• Brownlee, Shannon. Its Portion Distortion That
  Makes America Fat. Sacramento Bee. 5 Jan. 2003
• Barboza, David. If You Pitch It, They Will Eat
  It. New York Times. 3. Aug. 2003.
• Weintraub, Daniel. The Battle Against Fast Food
• Begins in the Home. Sacramento Bee. 17 Dec.
  2002.
• Zincenko, David. Dont Blame the Eater. New
  York Times. 23 Nov. 2002.

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Grammar Focus of unit

• Identifying Complete
• vs.
• Incomplete Ideas
• ?Subject Verbs
• ?Phrases Clauses

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Fast FoodDAY ONE
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Activity 1 Getting Ready to Read

• On a separate sheet of paper, write for
• 10 minutes on the following topic
• Whos at fault for Americas growing weight
  problem?

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Noticing Language
1. Kids are suing McDonalds for making them
fat. 2. Because more children are obese, type 2
diabetes has increased in children by 25
percent. 3. Although McDonalds is on every
corner. 4. The fast-food industry is vulnerable.
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Every sentence has two parts and
subject
predicate

• 1. The verb (predicate) is always related to the
  subject
• 2. The verb expresses
• -Action (eat, stop, buy, make, succeed)
• -State of being (am, is was, were, become,
  appear)
• -Mental states (know, think, feel, believe)
• 3. The verb either stands alone as the main verb
  (ate) or uses a helping verb (will eat) to be
  complete.

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Hints to Success

• 1. The verb usually comes after the subject.
• ?I exercise one hour every day.
• 2. If the sentence is a question, the subject
  follows the verb or is in the verb phrase.
• ?Are kids consuming too many calories?

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Assignment

• Complete Grammar Exercise 2 Identifying verbs
  verb phrases
• you may write on the worksheet
• turn your paragraph this exercise into the
  front bin when the bell rings

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Answers to Exercise 2

• Exercise 2 Identifying verbs and verb phrases
• (Underline answers in a different color.)
• 1. started 2. was
• 3. worked 4. were
• 5. got 6. have crossed
• 7. should know 8. are
• 9. needs 10. ll will see
• (Action verbs like start usually have
  progressive formshe is starting. Being
  verbs like is and got (meaning become) do
  not. We cant say, He was getting lucky.)

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Fast FoodDAY Two
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Activity 2 Surveying the Text

• 1. What do the titles Its Portion Distortion
  That Makes America Fat and If You Pitch It,
  They Will Eat tell you about the authors
  positions on who is responsible for Americas
  weight problem?

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Activity 2 Surveying the Text, cont.

• 2. What do you think is the purpose of these
  articles?

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Activity 2 Surveying the Text, cont.

• 3. Portion Distortion as published in The
  Sacramento Bee, and If you Pitch It was
  published in The New York Times. What
  similarities do you think these articles might
  have? What differences? Do you think they will be
  equally reliable?

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Activity 2 Surveying the Text, cont.

• 4. What else can you tell about the articles just
  by looking at them?

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Activity 3 Making Predictions Asking Questions

• Read the first three and the last paragraphs of
  Brownlees article. What is the point of
  comparing burgers, fries and cigarettes? What
  arguments so you think she will make?
• Read the first three and the last paragraphs of
  Barbozas article. According to Barboza, who is
  responsible for Americas weight problem? What
  arguments do you think he is going to make?

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Making Predictions Asking Questions, cont.

• 3. Who is the intended audience for these
  articles? How do you know this?
• 4. What information and ideas are the authors
  likely to draw on to convince you of their
  positions?
• 5. Reword the titles and subtitles and turn them
  into questions for you to answer after you have
  read the full articles.

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Grammar Exercise 3Identifying compound verbs
verb phrases

• Verb Complements in addition to the main verb
  phrase, verbs can act as nouns that follo the
  main verb
• dont confuse these with the main verb!!
• eg.
• -Eating often at fast-food restaurants can lead
  to obesity.
• -Americans continue eating hamburgers even
  though fast food is bad for them.

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Fast FoodDAY THREE
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Vocabulary Exercise

• Complete Vocabulary Self-Assessment worksheet.

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First Reading

• Read
• -Brownlees, Its Portion Distortion That
  Makes America Fat.
• -Barbozas If You Pitch It, They Will Eat It.
  
• -Weintraubs The Battle Against Fast Food
  Begins in the Home.
• -Zincenkos, Dont Blame the Eater.

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Fast FoodDAY FOUR
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First Reading

• Finish Reading
• -Brownlees, Its Portion Distortion That
  Makes America Fat.
• -Barbozas If You Pitch It, They Will Eat It.
  
• -Weintraubs The Battle Against Fast Food
  Begins in the Home.
• -Zincenkos, Dont Blame the Eater.

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Grammar Exercise 4

• It is easier to recognize the subject of a
  sentence what you find the verb first!!
• The subject of the sentence usually
• Occurs before the verb
• Tells who or what does the action
• Complete Grammar exercise 4.

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Fast FoodDAY FIVEAnnotating the Articles
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Rereading Exercises

• 1. Complete Reading worksheet-
• Activity 1 Rereading the Text

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How to Annotate Specific Annotations

• Think back about your original predictions.
  Which predictions were right? (List them) Which
  ones did you have to modify as you read Portion
  Distortion?
• What is the main idea of Portion Distortion?
  Who does Brownlee think is to blame for Americas
  obesity problem?
• On your article, underline or highlight the
  sentence that most clearly indicates who is to
  blame. (Use a different color or mark this
  clearly.)
• What does Brownlee think is the solution to the
  problem?

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Rereading Exercises

• 1. Complete Reading worksheet-
• Activity 2 Annotating the Text
• 2. Complete Reading worksheet-
• Activity 3 Looking Closely _at_ Language

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How to Annotate Standard Annotations

• Underline, highlight, draw arrows, and make
  comments about main ideas, questions or
  objections, and connections between ideas in the
  left hand margin. Write your reactions to what
  Brownlee says in the right hand margins.

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Activity 3 Looking Closely at Language(Understan
ding what you read)

• 1. According to Zincenkos Dont Blame the
  Eater, why are kids suing McDonalds?
• 2. According to Zincenko, what are the choices
  for American kids to get an affordable meal? Use
  the work option in your answer.
• 3. What causes 30 percent of the new cases of
  childhood diabetes in America?
• 4. Give an example of an alternative to fast
  food. How easy is it for kids to purchase that
  alternative?
• 5. Do people who buy fast food know how many
  calories they are eating? Use the word consume
  or consumer in your answer.
• 6. What do you think of kids who file lawsuits
  against the fast-food industry?
• 7. Do you agree with Zincenko that the fast-food
  industry is vulnerable?
• 8. Do you make informed choices when you buy fast
  food?

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Fast FoodDAY SIX
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Rereading Exercises

• 1. Complete Reading worksheet-
• Activity 4 Considering the Structure of the
  Text

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Writing a Summary

• Rhetorical Reading p.59-62
• Basis Components of a Summary
• -Authors Name
• -Title (of work you are summarizing)
• -Basic points covered in article / text
• rememberYOUR OPINION does not
• go in summary (unless they ask for it)

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Fast FoodDAY SEVEN
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Fast FoodDAY EIGHT
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Peer Response to Summary

• Return the Peer Response Form so your partner can
  revise his or her Summary/
• Response later.
• Then talk about both articles with your partner
  and decide whether you agree or disagree with the
  authors views about marketing and its
  relationship to obesity.

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Fast FoodDAY NINE
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Writing Assignment

• (See Writing Assignment Handout