Extreme Listening

Goals: Update Mrs. R about your reading progress, listen to a news article and answer some questions about it.

Agenda: 
Read
Reading Progress Survey
Article of the Week (Audio edition)

1. Read: 10-15 minutes silent reading from your book.
Remember to return and/or check out the book you have now.
Next review due 4/12.

2. Reading Progress Survey: Complete the FORM.

3. Article of the week (audio edition):
Our AOW this time will be an audio edition. National Public Radio produces great radio content and today we will listen to a news story about a pretty extreme sport from the recent winter Olympics.
I'll play it for you first and then you can listen to it again.
After we listen you will answer the questions on THIS FORM. (Yes this is a listening score.)

4. Done with the listening?  

1. Open your English Journal and write a response to the prompt below based on the news story you just listened to.  

Can you think of another sport that attracts a similar type of athlete? Explain the reasoning for your answer.

Need something else to work on? 

1. Open your Comparative Analysis essay (Poe/Laughton). If I've graded it, what do you need to revise? If I haven't graded it, what can you improve before it gets graded? 
2. Read