1. January 24, 2013 Grammar Quiz…show what you know! You must do Pride Parkway – it counts in the grading!

2. January 24, 2013 Teen Freedom Fighters – take a few minutes to look over your answers and complete your work. Remember, this counts as a test grade!

3. January 24, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011 /07/10/opinion/sunday/20110710_Alaba ma.html Draw a T-chart with three categories and label it “Scope” and “Slide Show.” Write down events from the reader’s theater titled “Teen Freedom Fighters.” As you watch the slide show, what do you notice that same and different from the play? ScopeSameDifferent Article and Photo Compare and Contrast

4. January 24, 2013 Why They Protest: American Movements http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/articl e/0,28804,2101745_2102134_2102358,00.html Watch this video and write two questions that come to mind during the video.

5. January’s Sparrow By Patricia Polacco Before we read, please create two T charts in your Reading Journal (one per page).

6. “Newspaper Editorial” You will be writing your opinion about the event you just read from differing perspectives in the form of an editorial in a newspaper published in 1860. 1st Paragraph— Explain what happened from your view point. 2 nd Paragraph— Based on attitudes of that time, justify your actions from the perspective you were given to write. 3 rd Paragraph— Thinking like your character, do you have any moral objections to what has happened in the story. Why or why not? Be persuasive to cause readers to want to change their mind to think as you do.

7. “Newspaper Editorial” You will be writing your opinion about the event you just read from differing perspectives in the form of an editorial in a newspaper published in 1860. 1st Paragraph— Explain what happened from your view point. 2 nd Paragraph— Based on attitudes of that time, justify your actions from the perspective you were given to write. 3 rd Paragraph— Thinking like your character, do you have any moral objections to what has happened in the story. Why or why not? Be persuasive to cause readers to want to change their mind to think as you do.

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