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5/12 Human Rights 16-30 Rubric

http://blogs.ksbe.edu/pekono/files/2018/05/Human-Rights-16-30-Rubric-2018.docx  

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4/30 Turning in your Powtoon today

Period 1 Google classroom is zagb35 Period 2 Google classroom is g9oz1xg   Get on My Powtoons Export or re-export to PDF Choose Education and Public and Standard Copy the link and paste into the comment section of your google classroom.  

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4/24 Rubric for Human Rights Powtoon

http://blogs.ksbe.edu/pekono/human-rights-powtoon-rubric-418/

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4/19 Informed opinion exemplars

These extended responses all had better uses of evidence.  Common problems were misunderstandings about import/export and who was affected by tariffs.  You needed to provided two opposite perspectives and not all did.  Also, most people need to work on a … Continue reading

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4/17 Human Rights Cartoon – Powtoons due 4/30

Kumu Siarot gave a lesson on storyboarding for the human rights cartoon assignment.  Today we reviewed the directions and the due dates.  These dates were put in the planners.  Next weekʻs regularly scheduled Newsela assignment has been postponed, in order … Continue reading

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4/16 – Newsela due dates

You have been assigned the latest Newsela article regarding the recent tariffs on China.  Please complete your reading and annotations by Wednesday, as we will conduct a Socratic circle, that will assist you in understanding tariffs, and complete the Write. … Continue reading

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4/12 Exemplars – Nothing is given. Everything is earned.

The directions were to make a connection between LeBron Jamesʻ famous quote and the road to the Universal Declaration of Human rights that we have been studying.   You needed to use explicit evidence to support your connection.  3 means … Continue reading

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4/11 – Road to Democracy Big Ideas

Instead of providing you with exemplars, I will be giving you the big ideas that I hoped to see in your extended responses.  Please review them.  If you feel that you adequately explained them in your answers, you can bring … Continue reading

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4/10 Newsela Write due this Friday/Work this week

Last week you were summatively tested on your ability to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the earliest forms of government in Ancient Greece.  I will be assessing them this week.  Yesterday we continued our learning about the United Nations … Continue reading

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3/31 Exemplars for Pro/Con Gun Laws – Informed Opinion

I put in these opinions, because they use a primary source as background knowledge, and cited it:  My opinion is that I think we should strengthen guns laws so that it is harder to buy guns then “making plans with … Continue reading

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