4/5-6 Thursday-Friday
Guiding Question:
Collaborative: Students will study the lives of free African Americans in the North by reading a primary and secondary source closely and participating in a 'Save the Last Word for Me' with a score of at least 3/4 according to the rubric. Independent: Students will work to increase their Lexile levels by determining the central ideas of an Achieve article about school segregation, completing all summaries, and scoring at least 75% on the activity.
Standards:
8.6.4 - Study the lives of black Americans in the North
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.
SL.8.1 - Engage effectively in a range of academic discussions with diverse partners on grade 8 topics.
ELD A.1 - Exchanging information and ideas with others.SL.8.1 - Engage effectively in a range of academic discussions with diverse partners on grade 8 topics.
Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:
Rewrite today's objectives on your tracker packet.
Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:
Recap what we've learned so far about the North.
"So far, we've learned..."
"So far, we've learned..."
Task 1: Achieve3000, "An American Hero" You need to complete the first 4 tabs for this article.
- You only need to summarize paragraphs that are more than two sentences! You may write your summaries as bullet points for my class.
- Achieve articles are summative grades. You cannot get higher than an NP if you did not summarize. In order to complete a "makeup Achieve" you need to also complete the first 4 tabs and the summaries on your makeup article as well.
Early Finishers: Watch this video about a free black man in the North, play an iCivics game, complete any missing or makeup work, play Free Rice, read an article on NewsELA, read a book, contemplate the meaning of life, read this article.
Collaborative (Voice Level .5 - 1) 45 minutes:
Step 1: Read the background essay and Document A as a station.
Step 2: Follow Save The Last Word for Me protocol at your table groups.
Here is a rubric for Save the Last Word for Me
Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:
Think-Pair-Share, summarize what you learned today in at least two sentences. "Today I learned that..."
Homework:
CNN10 assignment in Google Classroom.