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Content Standards Grade 5 Reading State Framework:
 * 1) **Take a position regarding a topic/issue**
 * 2) **Evaluate the quality and value of text.**
 * 3) **Connect current issues, information from other texts, and personal experiences to characters, events and information**
 * 4) **(Connecticut PK-8 English Language Art Curriculum Standards, Connecticut State Department of Education, February 2010)**Objective Select a story from the newspaper that will be of interest to your students. Read the story aloud to your class. Discuss the main idea of the story. Pass out newspapers to your students. Have them select several stories from their papers to read. Tell them to number the stories. Then write the same numbers on a sheet of paper. Next to each number have them write the main idea of the same numbered story. Have your students exchange stories with a partner. Their partners should read the stories and write their main ideas ona nother piece of paper. When both partners have finished this activity, they should compare answers, discussing any discrepenccies.
 * 1) **(Connecticut PK-8 English Language Art Curriculum Standards, Connecticut State Department of Education, February 2010)**Objective Select a story from the newspaper that will be of interest to your students. Read the story aloud to your class. Discuss the main idea of the story. Pass out newspapers to your students. Have them select several stories from their papers to read. Tell them to number the stories. Then write the same numbers on a sheet of paper. Next to each number have them write the main idea of the same numbered story. Have your students exchange stories with a partner. Their partners should read the stories and write their main ideas ona nother piece of paper. When both partners have finished this activity, they should compare answers, discussing any discrepenccies.

Lesson Plan: Students will break into four groups. The topic of today's lesson will be the BP oil spill. Each group will choose a postion regarding the issue. The postions are: The BP oil spill was detrimental to the environment, The BP oils spill was not detrimental to the environment, The BP oil Spill affects business in New Orleans and the Coast, The BP oil Spill negatively affected the wild life of the coast. Students will s elect a stories from the newspaper that are germane to their topic. Discuss the main idea of the story. Have the groups use computers to review the internet news papers and voice threads regarding their topic. Have them select several stories from their papers to read and compile a list of points from the articles that support their position. The groups will then have five minutes to discuss their topics and then present a five minute discussion/presentation on their findings.

Assessment: Students will orally speak on an current issue with a certain position for 5 minutes and the research using online newspaper and voicethread sources.

Materials Kids News Articles on the BP oil Spoil: > http://www.studentnewsnet.com/index.php?fuseaction=home.featured&feat=gulfoilspill > http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=745 > http://www.dogonews.com/search/Oil%20Spill > Voicethread page for oil spills: http://voicethread.com/?#q+oil+spill ​ > ==== ==== > ==== ==== media type="custom" key="7576769"