Lesson 2

Lesson Goals

Texts

Core

• • “Privacy and Information Sharing,” Lee Rainie and Maeve Duggan, Pew Research Center, 2016

Materials

Tools

• Summarizing Text Tool

• Vocabulary Journal

• Vocabulary in Context Tool

Editable Google Docs

• Summarizing Text Tool

• Vocabulary Journal

• Vocabulary in Context Tool

Activity 1: Read – Discuss

We will work in groups to review our answers to the homework for the informational text “Privacy And Information Sharing.”

Use the following questions to guide your discussion:

1. What words or terms in the report are unfamiliar to you?

2. What data presented in the report align with your current opinion?

3. What data are surprising?

4. What central idea do the researchers summarize in their findings?

5. Is there any evidence of bias in the report? If so, where?

Use the discussion to make revisions to your notes, as needed.

Activity 2: Read – Discuss – Write

We will determine the meaning of Unknown words in the informational text “Privacy And Information Sharing.”

Study or review the words below. You might use a copy of the Vocabulary in Context Tool for words you can decipher from the text; for others, you might use morphology or reference material, or your teacher might present you with definitions.

• contingent (para. 1)

• context dependent (para. 1)

• surveillance (para. 1)

• disclose (para. 2)

• perceive (para. 4)

• conditional (para. 6)

Write down your answers in your Vocabulary Journal. For each word, identify the vocabulary strategy (e.g., context, morphology, reference material) you used to determine its meaning.

Activity 3: Read – Discuss – Write

We will interact with the words we defined for “Privacy And Information Sharing” to cement our understanding of their meaning.

Work with a partner to respond to the vocabulary exercises directed by your teacher.

Activity 4: Discuss – Write

We will use text features of “Privacy and Information Sharing” to determine its central ideas and supporting details.

As a class, discuss the following questions:

1. Examine the subtitle of the article. What information is found in this subtitle?

2. Examine the bolded text on pages 5-7. What information is found in this text?

3. Examine the italicized text on pages 5-7. What information is found in this text?

4. Why do you think the authors are using each of these text features?

Independently, use the Summarizing Text Tool to summarize the main points of "Privacy and Information Sharing."

Complete the tool for homework, if needed.

Activity 5: Discuss – Read – Write

We will write a joint summary of “Privacy and Information Sharing.”

A summary is used to highlight the main points of a text. Summaries do not contain many specific facts or trivial information, but they do detail the author’s main claims and important support for those claims. Summaries are written in the writer’s own words and are objective—that is, they provide information from the text without agreement or disagreement from the summarizer. One of the most effective ways to summarize informational text is to follow a summarization process.

Work with a partner or in a small group to summarize the article:

• First, scan each paragraph and identify the key ideas.

• Next, answer this question: Who or what is this paragraph mainly about?

• Now, identify two to three important pieces of information linked to the "who" or "what."

With a partner or in a small group, write two or three of the report’s main claims. Then, determine one or two key supports for each claim, but do not focus on minor details.

Use the notes you and your partner created to write your own summary of "Privacy and Information Sharing."