Monthly Archives: February 2018

2/12 Newsela – MLK and Super Bowl, and Alternative assignments

Reading annotations for this week’s article will be discussed in class on Wednesday, and Friday the Write is due. Alternative assignments are available for students who are missing work, or who want to try again.  You must check with me … Continue reading

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2/12 Exemplars from Trump Write

This is a 3 with conditions.  Missing paragraph numbers and quotation marks and has mispellings and lack of capitalization, but a well stated topic sentence with supporting evidence. My opinion that other countries might feel based on president Trump is … Continue reading

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2/7 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Quotation

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?  In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.  Yet they are the world of the individual person; … Continue reading

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2/3. Feedback for the Gandhi Write, due 2/2

Here are some examples of different levels of responses: These were rated a 3 – It was a well stated lasting lesson, there was strong supporting evidence chosen, and it was explicitly quoted from the text, as well cited with … Continue reading

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2/3 Example of a Hua sequence map for Selma

Context – Mid 60s, legal segregation, southern U.S. (or Selma), Jim Crow laws, hate groups (or KKK), Federal laws gives voting rights to all, former slave holding state Beginning Issue – Blacks are denied voting rights Actions – MLK Jr. … Continue reading

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