1st per Language Arts 1 Assignments
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4th Quarter Essay
Over the course of this unit, you have gathered information about the variety of ways that education can be used to create or resist change. Use the information you have gathered to answer the question: How can education be used to create change? Support your answer using reasons and evidence from a variety of the texts covered in this unit. Your essay should be 3-4 paragraphs and include a minimum of 3 quotations from 3 different texts from your completed graphic organizer.
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Graphic Organizer **DO THIS FOR EVERY STORY!!**
This is to be completed as you read every assigned text this quarter.
DO NOT USE THE LINKS IN THIS DOCUMENT TO READ THE STORIES. USE THE LINKS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM WHEN THEY ARE POSTED EACH WEEK. If you go to the stories from this document, you WILL NOT get credit each week for the reading assignment in CommonLit.
You can print it out and write on it or fill it in digitally. If you write on it, then you will have to turn it in by uploading a picture of the completed worksheet. If you do it digitally, then you can just click "Turn in" as usual in Google Classroom.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
DO NOT USE THE LINKS IN THIS DOCUMENT TO READ THE STORIES. USE THE LINKS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM WHEN THEY ARE POSTED EACH WEEK. If you go to the stories from this document, you WILL NOT get credit each week for the reading assignment in CommonLit.
You can print it out and write on it or fill it in digitally. If you write on it, then you will have to turn it in by uploading a picture of the completed worksheet. If you do it digitally, then you can just click "Turn in" as usual in Google Classroom.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
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Week 6: Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers
This assignment is due 05/21/2020. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.
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Week 5, #1: Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison
This assignment is due 05/14/2020. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.
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Week 4, #1: The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian
This assignment is due 05/07/2020. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.
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Week 3, #2 Reading Quiz for "BEHIND THE NATIVE AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT GAP"
Instead of doing a FlipGrid this week, we are doing another Google Survey Quiz.
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Week 3, #1: Behind The Native American Achievement Gap
This assignment is due 04/30/2020. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.
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Week 2, #1: A Child Of Slavery Who Taught A Generation
This assignment is due 04/23/2020. Click the attached link to access the assignment. YOU WILL NEED TO CREATE A LOGIN TO CommonLit USING YOUR DISTRICT GOOGLE ACCOUNT.
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Week 2, #2: Pairing questions for Frederick Douglas & A Child of Slavery
2 questions, answer in Google Form linked below. For the short answer, your answer should be at least 4 sentences.
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Week 1, #2: Frederick Douglas Flipgrid DQ
After reading the text for Frederick Douglas, record a Flipgrid answering one of the following DQs:
1. In the context of this text, how do people overcome adversity? What role can literacy play in this? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.
2. In the context of this passage, what is the goal of education? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.
1. In the context of this text, how do people overcome adversity? What role can literacy play in this? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.
2. In the context of this passage, what is the goal of education? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.
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Week 1, #1: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Chapters 1 & 7
This assignment is due 04/16/2020. Click the attached link to access the assignment. YOU WILL NEED TO CREATE A LOGIN TO CommonLit USING YOUR DISTRICT GOOGLE ACCOUNT.
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Participation Survey 3/25
This will be the first GRADED survey for 1st period ELA. It will be worth 20 points in the participation category in Aeries. The district expectation is that ALL students will engage with their teachers and classes during this school shut-down. Learning still needs to happen, it will just look different! This is due March 27, by 2:00pm.
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District Writing Test
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CA & CCA practice
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Argument Writing Commentary Practice
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Odyssey Essay
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