Meat Industry
One of the largest pork producers in the world.
What is Smithfield?
This is the amount of organic waste NYC residence create each year.
What is 1.3 Million Tons?
A good topic sentence expresses this.
What is the main idea of the paragraph?
Before starting to read a text make sure to do this.
What is preview & predict what it will be about?
This word mixes the prefix "pre" meaning before and the root word judge. It means a holding a belief about something/someone without knowing them.
What is prejudice?
This is the name of place where hog waste is stored on pig farms. It also contains anitbiotics, syringes, and many other gross things!
What is a lagoon?
When food waste goes to landfills and breaks down it release this harmful greenhouse gas.
What is methane?
This is the technique we learned to help us create strong closing sentences.
What is "echo and punch"?
When text coding use R to code this type of thinking.
What are your reactions?
What is vermi?
Raising these animals for meat destroys forests and releases huge amounts of methane into the air.
What are cattle (cows)?
In the food audit, on average 6th graders wasted about this many pounds of food per day.
What is 20-25?
Instead of writng complete sentences and fully writing everything out, use these instead when putting details in your SPO.
What are notetaking symbols?
Restate, revisit, and reclaim all have the same one of this word part.
What is prefix?
This word combines a prefix related to knowledge with a root word for drawing or writing. We "read" many of them throughout the expedition.
What is infographic?
These animals have more than quadrupled in size over the past 50 years because of the way we raise them.
What are chickens?
This form of composting uses worms to break down organic matter and turn it into nutrient rich soil.
What is vermicomposting?
What is connect ideas?
You should do this when you come to an unfamiliar word in the text.
What is circle it and use a variety of strategies for figuring it out?
The word biofuel means fuel made from this.
What is organic matter/material?
This activist went to jail for “kidnapping” 2 piglets from Circle Four Farms.
NYC is trying to cut down on food waste with this new program that began in October 2023.
What is curbside composting?
These three words are what SPO stands for.
What is single paragraph outline?
The lowest number in your lexile range plus 100
What is your "sweet spot"?
This Smithfield case study word comes from the Latin word sanctuarium which is a container for keeping holy things safe.
What is sanctuary?