3/27-28 Monday-Tuesday
Guiding Question:
Collaborative: Students will complete a PSA for their chosen form of modern slavery with a score of at least 3/4 according to the rubric.Independent: Students will compare slavery in America's past to slavery around the world today by writing a rough draft of their research paper with a score of at least 3/4 according to the rubric.
Standards:
8.7.2 - Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and historical documents on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).
CCRA.R.1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
ELD B.6 - Read closely to determine how meaning is made
Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:
- On your objective tracker, dissect the objectives you will be working to complete for today. Be prepared to explain the objectives in your own words if I call on you.
Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 10 minutes:
Recap:
- When rough drafts of the paper are due
- When the PSA is due
- What we are doing the rest of the week
- When rough drafts of the paper are due
- When the PSA is due
- What we are doing the rest of the week
Independent (Voice Level 0) 40 minutes:
Task 1: In Google Classroom, you will be working on the rough draft of your independent research paper. Remember, we have already completed all three body paragraphs, so you should only need to write an introduction and a conclusion!
Friendly reminder, if this rough draft is not finished by 11:59 the day you have me then you will be spending a week with me after school! Thursday 3/30 - Thursday 4/6!
Task 2: Check your rough draft against this rubric. Are you including everything you need to?
Task 3: Watch CNN Student News
Early Finisher? Watch this, play Free Rice, read an Achieve article, complete missing or late work, research slavery in the antebellum South.
Collaborative (Voice Level .5 - 1) 40 minutes:
Task 1: PSA Work Time. This is your last opportunity to work on this assignment in class. If you do not finish your poster, pamphlet, or commercial you will need to work on it as homework. It is due when you walk in the door Thursday/Friday.
At the end of this station, complete the "next steps" portion for that station's objective. If you met the objective, write "none" in that box.
Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:
Complete Objective Tracker Packet
Homework:
Your research paper rough drafts need to be done and ready to peer edit by Wednesday!