Monday, January 13, 2014

Monday, January 13, 2014

Week 18, Day 1
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.

  1. Week 17 SAT Quiz
  2. Grade Week 18 DRE
  3. Bell Work: Free Write!!!!
    1. It is a NEW six weeks, this means you need to write 70 words for the entry.
    2. You must use two of the current's week SAT words.
    3. Don't forget to underline every tenth word and box in your SAT word.
    4. Please do this on a separate sheet of paper and then we will put them in your spiral when you get them back.  
  4. Turn in your "The Devil and Tom Walker" One Pager Quiz
  5. Persuasive Reading
    1. Pick a controversial issue
    2. Find a recent article (in the last month) that supports one side of the controversial issue and another article that supports the opposite side of the issue.
    3. The articles you find should be persuasive in nature.  This means that they should try to convince you to feel one way or the other.  If it is persuasive it will not convince you to see BOTH sides of the issue in the same article.  
    4. Fill out this form to turn in your two articles: Persuasive Articles Form

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