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We continued using the first chapter of The Help today in discussing societal norms. We reviewed questions and predictions students had for the text, and we talked about the norms and quotes students identified last class. I introduced new vocabulary — ”medium,” ”primary source,” and “secondary source.” Then I played for the class an NPR/Story Corps recording regarding “The Kissing Case”; students read the transcript of the recording while listening (a primary source), and then I read the accompanying article (a secondary source) out loud while they read along quietly. Students wrote down norms evident in these texts as well as quotes that show the norms in action. Then I helped students begin a new introduce/explain/pertain paragraph using just one quote from one of these three texts. I gave everyone a fill-in-the-blank claim/topic sentence, reviewed the pattern (introduce the quote, write the quote, explain the quote, show how the quote pertains to and supports the claim), and even provided a fill-in-the-blank pertain sentence. Homework: finish these introduce/explain/pertain paragraphs for next class.