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Read/Understand
Silent reading and quiet questioning, apply all the reading strategies that you have been taught. If you do not understand what you have read, stop, reread, and define words until you understand. If you need help, "Ask 3 then me." Write/Make Do and submit quality work, use evidence to support your claims, explain your reasoning, and follow all the directions. If you need help, "Ask 3 then me." Listen/Speak During discussions, always use the language of history. If you are unsure how to do this, use the words on the word wall at the front of the classroom, the sentence starters provided, and/or your notes in your composition notebook. If you need help, "Ask 3 then me." |
Theme #5 African American Studies
Questions: What does African American history teach us about United States history? In what ways have African American contributions shaped the United States? What were the effects of American slavery? How did the United States responded to the inherent hypocrisy of slavery in the United States? What were the many events that led to the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance?
Purpose: The purpose of this unit is to study African American history and to learn about their many contributions that helped shape the United States. Objectives: Scholars will.. listen to their peers and participate in academic discussions, assess their achievement by using instructional and analytical rubrics, use the Close Reading strategy to analyze a variety of texts, identify claims, evidence, and reasoning in a variety of texts, write using the CERS formate for argument/persuasive writing, write explanatory essays and responses, as well as evaluate current events using your historical background knowledge and logic. CLASSROOM RESOURCES
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