Week 5 Agenda and Activities- Wednesday 7/29

Topic 2: Immigration - DACA

Note

Writing Assignments

Some of you have asked for more writing activities, like paragraphs and essays.

Two weeks ago you completed your first writing assignment, a free write about climate change. Today we will begin our second writing assignment, a summary and response on the topic of immigration. Next week we will do our third writing assignment, a letter about mass incarceration (prisons and jails). In the last week of school, we will do our final writing assignment: a short summary and response to a research topic of your choice from this quarter.

In conclusion, our writing activities this quarter include

free write about climate change
summary and response about immigration
letter about mass incarceration
final essay on a topic of your choice

Objective

Writing:

- Capture the main ideas in a text by concisely summarizing with keywords
- Highlight the many sides of the issues by compose a response using sentence stems
- Use complete sentences with adequate end punctuation, capitalization, and avoiding run-ons or fragments

Wednesday 7/29 Agenda: today we will...

1) Ask yourself the Question of the Day (below)

2) Re-read the article about immigration and DACA

3) Watch videos for extra research on the topic of immigration

4) Compose a summary and response to the questions

5) Demonstrate your knowledge of the vocabulary with a fill-in-the-blank exercise

Question of the Day

When I write a summary of an article, what process do I follow? When I write a response, how do I make an argument so that my reader will understand my point of view?

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