Monday:
Use your active listening skills to watch the TED TALK about being a global citizen. What specific humanitarian action would you complete and in what country? Why? Remember the examples in the talk. You can either create a detailed and colorful poster for your campaign (mild), create a detailed pamphlet (medium), or create a powerpoint explaining your action (spicy). AND, for the first time, you may work with a partner (virtually of course) if you would like to. Your partner must be someone in the same ELA class as you. Be sure BOTH of your names are on the assignment.
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Supports:
- Make sure that you are listening with your ears to all directions.
-Earbuds/Headphones should be used or your speaker on.
- Use the Read&Write App to have the text read aloud
Tuesday:
Remember that the mood is the atmosphere of the story. You can identify the mood by looking at
reminder:
Mild: Identify the mood of the poem and provide 3 words/phrases that establish the mood in a
well-written paragraph.
Medium: Identify the mood of each stanza, and 2 words/phrases from each stanza that create this
mood in two well-developed paragraphs.
Spicy: Add two stanzas (four lines each) to the poem maintaining the established mood and explain
your reasoning for this development in a statement below. In addition, how does this poem relate to
the theme of “humanity”?
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Supports:
Use the Read&Write App to have the text read aloud
-This is a helpful graphic organizer to help you write the paragraph about mood.
Wednesday:
Complete 30 minutes of iReady. This is an assignment and will be checked! Please email
your teacher with any questions and/or if you need a lesson adjusted.
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Thursday:
THIS IS A TWO-DAY LESSON.
Day 1: Listen to/view this SPEECH by then President, Barack Obama given on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma March for Voting Rights. Watch it twice if needed to understand the full message.
While listening, take notes and write down at least five things that stand out to you. Here is the TEXT of what was said in the video. Make a copy and type your notes on the bottom.
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Friday:
THIS IS A TWO-DAY LESSON. BE SURE TO COMPLETE DAY 1 FIRST.
Day 2: Choose one of the writing options.
MILD: Write down your biggest “take away” from listening to the speech. Explain why this stood
out to you and three ways it inspired you in a fully developed paragraph.
MEDIUM: Make a plan of action to DO SOMETHING that relates to your biggest “take away” from
this speech. Describe why you are inspired to do this, using evidence from the speech, some specific
steps you can take, and how this plan of action will change the world for the better.
SPICY: Write a letter or email to a person of your choice about the important messages from Obama’s
speech and how those messages can inspire and help us today. Be sure to put the messages in CONTEXT
for the reader by giving background about this assignment, the speech, and the specific things said in the
speech. Make sure to use details that explain how the messages in the speech can help inspire us, even
today, and what we can do to ACT on the inspiration.
ENRICHMENT:
Here is the text of the ENTIRE SPEECH by President Obama. What is said in the Smithsonian video is highlighted in YELLOW.
In a 3 to 5 paragraph piece of writing, consider why the Smithsonain used only pieces of the speech in their
video. Some things to consider in your writing: What was the STORY the video was trying to tell? How
did the parts of the speech, chosen for the video, help that story? Were there parts of the speech, not included
in the video, that should have been included to tell the story more clearly? What was the purpose of having
Congressman John Lewis speak in added videos, and was this effective for the story that the Smithsonian was
trying to tell in their video?
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