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ELA: 6th grade
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Assignment Name is: LE2 (Literary Essay Week 2)
Save As: (homeroom-assignment name-last,first)
For example: L4-LE2-O’Meara, Katie
Due Date: 12/12/14 @ 3:00pm
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*PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE FONT AND SIZE OF THE TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT, OR REMOVE
SPACING I HAVE INCLUDED. THESE CHANGES MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO SEE AND FIND YOUR
WORK!
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In-class Activities - Monday
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Omnis: Latin. Omnis means "each, every, all."
omnipotentomnipresentomniscientomnivorousomnibusomnidirectional-
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DO NOW:
1. Copy paste your completed outline below #5 now.
2. Copy your completed outline into Haiku now, its under “Literary Essay Outline”.
3. Select a student name from the bucket to comment on. Give your student feedback on their outline. 2
GROWS and 1 GLOW. Be as detailed and specific as possible on all your comments! Each comment
should be a minimum of 6 sentences. Your 3 points and a sentence explaining each one.
HINT: Remember- its not supposed to be a complete draft yet so pay attention to their structure.
You may want to ask yourself the following questions when evaluating their outline: Does it have
all the proper components? Does each paragraph have a topic sentence, evidence with
explanation and a conclusion sentence? Do their reasons and evidence make sense? Does their
evidence support their reasons and thesis statement?
4. Swap names with your elbow partner. Groups of 3 see me before anyone swaps. Comment on the same
manner described on #3 on your second student name.
5. Screen shot both of your comments and include them below #5, before your outline.
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My Screen Shot Comments:
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My Outline Before Revisions:
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*Haiku comment reflections on MY work: After you have read your feedback from others, what do you
think about what they said? What do you need to improve on?
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*Revised Outline With Highlighted Changes: Copy paste your outline below and revise it based on the
comments you received, as well as your own reflection. Highlight/ strikethrough any changes you make so I
can see your work easily.
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*Greek/ Latin Roots Vocab Lesson 12:
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Homework: Finish revising your outline based not the feedback you received,
if you did not finish it in class. Study for your vocab test!
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In-class Activities - Tuesday
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Quickwrite: What are the components of a strong introduction?
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Introducing a Topic: https://learnzillion.com/lessons/5064-introduce-a-topic
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I will play the video for you!
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Instructions: When the video asks you to pause, complete the activity below that has the same stop
sign as you see in the video. The instructions are given in the video.
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provide structure to a text
wrap up your writing
include specific details to support ideas
give a preview to a text
There are a number of other branches of math today, but in the future, there may be even more.
Euclid was a Greek mathematician.
You may have to take trigonometry in high school.
Isaac Newton is also a famous scientist.
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Some people are great mathematicians, but for really complicated problems, most people will use a
calculator.
The abacus was developed thousands of years ago. It is a simple rectangular frame with a set of rods
in the middle. The rods have beads or balls that slide up and down. Someone that knows how to use an
abacus can easily add very large numbers quickly. The abacus was good for adding numbers, but some
math problems can be a lot more complicated than addition.
The slide rule came along in the 1600s. Slide rules can be straight or circular. A skilled user can
multiply, divide, and even do trigonometry by sliding parts of a slide rule in different directions and
reading the numbers that are shown on an indicator, or cursor. Slide rules were popular well into the 20th
century.
The first real portable calculator was made in the 1940s, but it had a crank instead of keys! Eventually,
battery operated pocket calculators became popular. There was even a trend of people wearing tiny
calculator watches. Now every smartphone is a calculator, and they can do a lot more than an abacus or
a slide rule.
People have been using devices to help them with math for thousands of years. You would probably
have no idea how to use an abacus or a slide rule, or even the first crank-operated portable calculator.
That is not a problem because modern calculators can do much harder math than those first math
machines, but they are also much easier to use.
The slide rule was another simple calculating device.
The abacus was the first mechanical device designed to solve math problems.
Modern calculators are more powerful than early math machines.
Mathematicians don’t always use calculators.
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Some people are great mathematicians, but for really complicated problems, most people will use a
calculator. The abacus was the first mechanical device designed to solve math problems. The slide rule
was another simple calculating device. The first portable calculator was not available until the 1960s,
and it was nothing like the tiny pocket calculators you might find in a classroom, or the virtual calculator
on your phone. Modern calculators are more powerful than the first math machines, and they make
solving math problems much easier.
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Math is a large field that covers several different branches.
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Your Introduction: Using the skills you learned in the video, write your introduction paragraph below. Make
sure you include your thesis statement and reasons!
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Hour of Code: https://www.madewithcode.com/projects
http://code.org
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*Homework: Use your revised outline from Monday to draft your 3 body paragraphs! below your
introduction. MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR OUTLINE!!! Do not let all our practice with organization and
structure go to waste!
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In Class Activities- Wednesday
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Quickwrite: What are the components of a strong conclusion?
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Conclusions: https://learnzillion.com/lessons/5076-write-a-logical-conclusion
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I will play the video for you!
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Instructions: When the video asks you to pause, complete the activity below that has the same stop
sign as you see in the video. The instructions are given in the video.
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British soldiers claimed that they fired into the crowd in self-defense.
The colonists that died during the Boston massacred were unarmed protesters.
The story of the Boston Massacre proves that it is difficult to know the specifics about historical events
from long ago.
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There was not a single, specific cause that led to the American Revolution, but there was a single
theme. American colonists wanted more power over the decisions that affected them. This idea was a
driving factor behind many events that led to the American Revolution. The Stamp Act, the Boston Tea
Party, and the Intolerable Acts were a few of the things that directly contributed to the war. Eventually,
colonists thought that they would need complete independence from Great Britain for the freedom they
wanted, and that is exactly what they got.
British settlers started colonizing America in the 1500s. For about 200 years, the relationship between
the colonists and the British government was a good one. The American colonists even fought alongside
the British Army in the French and Indian War. The Colonists and British soldiers won the war, but things
began to get worse in the colonies. After the French and Indian War, the British government began to
impose new taxes and regulations on the American colonies.
The Stamp Act was the first tax that the colonists thought was unfair. The British government used it to
pay debts that they had incurred during the French and Indian War. Later, the colonists protested
another tax with the Boston Tea Party by dumping about 50 tons of British Tea into Boston Harbor. The
British retaliated by enforcing a harsh set of laws called the Intolerable Acts. This firmly set the American
colonists and Great Britain on a path to war.
American colonists had not always wanted to become an independent country. Delegates from the
thirteen colonies met in 1774, and they decided to try to work out their differences with Great Britain.
King George III and the British Parliament were not interested in a compromise, so delegates from the
colonies met again. In the Second Continental Congress, colonial delegates agreed that America should
become a new, independent country. In 1776, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of
Independence to tell Great Britain the America would no longer be subject to British rule.
There is no particular event that single-handedly caused the American Revolution.
American colonists started out as loyal British citizens and even fought alongside the British.
The American colonists tried to work out their differences with King George, but Great Britain would not
compromise.
The Stamp Act was the first tax that American colonists thought was unfair.
There is no particular event that single-handedly caused the American Revolution. American colonists
started out as loyal British citizens and even fought alongside the British.
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There is no particular event that single-handedly caused the American Revolution. American colonists
started out as loyal British citizens and even fought alongside the British. But when the British
government started imposing taxes and regulations on the colonies, colonists thought that King George
and parliament were being unfair. Great Britain would not compromise, and the colonies would no longer
adhere to British rule.
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There is no particular event that single-handedly caused the American Revolution. American colonists
started out as loyal British citizens and even fought alongside the British. But when the British
government started imposing taxes and regulations on the colonies, colonists thought that King George
and parliament were being unfair. Great Britain would not compromise, and the colonies would no longer
adhere to British rule.
The colonies decided to fight for independence, which is why we enjoy the freedom that we have today.
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By 1773, the relationship between Great Britain and its American colonies had become very tense. The
American colonists had found many different ways to protest laws and taxes that the British government
imposed on them. In 1773, a group of colonists staged the Boston Tea Party. Great Britain responded
with a harsh set of laws known as the Intolerable Acts. Great Britain wanted to coerce the American
colonies to accept complete British rule, but the Intolerable Acts quickly led to the American
Revolution.
The American colonies started as part of Great Britain. Great Britain thought that meant the American
colonies should obey laws made by King George III and the British Parliament. The colonists thought
that since they were British, they should have a say in making the laws they would have to follow. Over
the years, some colonists became more outspoken. They found many ways to protest what they
considered unfair British rule.
One specific protest was the Boston Tea Party. A group of colonists in Boston, called the Sons of
Liberty, snuck onto British ships and tossed tens of thousands of pounds of tea overboard. They did this
to protest the Tea Act, which imposed taxes and regulations on Tea that Great Britain imported on the
colonies. The Sons of Liberty wanted to send a message to King George and the Parliament, and they
did. Soon after, the British government sent its own message to the American colonies.
The Sons of Liberty destroyed 340 crates of British Tea into the waters of Boston Harbor. Parliament
retaliated with a strict set of laws aimed at the Massachusetts Colony. Great Britain hoped that that its
Coercive Acts would make the colonists more compliant to British laws. In the colonies, the laws were
known as the Intolerable Acts. Colonists actually thought the laws were so intolerable that they led the
American colonies on a path to war with Great Britain.
The first American colonists never wanted to go to war with Great Britain.
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Your Conclusion: Using the skills you learned in the video, write your conclusion paragraph below. Make
sure you summarize your important points, and take it to a deeper level!
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*Homework: Finish any classwork that is incomplete for today’s work on conclusions. Cope paste
your completed draft including your introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs and conclusion
paragraph into the top of Thursday’s section.
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In Class Activities- Thursday
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MY DRAFT:
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Revision Practice: Select two of the topics listed below to learn more about. Later you will
use the knowledge you have gained to revise your paper for these elements. Choose the
topics you feel will be the most helpful for you! Obtain the appropriate student worksheets
from me so you can write your responses down on paper as you watch the videos
independently. SCREEN SHOT your completed worksheets into your documents. Please
delete the videos you are not choosing and place the screen shots of your completed
worksheets below the video titles you viewed so I can easily evaluate your work.
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1. Including Specific Concrete Details: https://learnzillion.com/lessons/5070-use-specificconcrete-details
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Including Direct Quotations: https://learnzillion.com/lessons/5071-include-direct-quotes
3. Matching Your Body Paragraphs to Your Introduction: https://learnzillion.com/
lessons/5077-match-the-body-of-a-paragraph-to-the-introduction
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4. Including Relevant Information (taking out unnecessary details- it says for
introductions but you can apply this to every paragraph!): https://learnzillion.com/lessons/
5065-include-relevant-information-in-an-introduction
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5. Using Transitions Effectively: https://learnzillion.com/lessons/5072-use-transitions-toshow-relationships
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6. Maintain a Formal Writing Style: https://learnzillion.com/lessons/5075-maintain-aformal-writing-style
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*Homework: Highlight the video titles you viewed in today in class in two different colors. Revise
your draft above for the two skills you learned in class today with your changes in the corresponding colors.
For example, if I viewed the videos on transitions and formal writing style, I would highlight any new
transitions in yellow and any instances where I changed my wording to keep it formal in green! Please only
revise your paper for 1 thing at a time. So basically you will read through your whole paper once for your 1st
set of revisions and again for your second set of revisions.
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Quiz and In Class Activities- Friday
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Greek/Latin Root Word Quiz: Lesson 12: Omnis
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Editing: Edit your paper using the checklist I provide. Remember only edit for 2 things at a time! You can
make your edits right in your revised draft in Thursday’s section. Screen shot your completed editing
checklist into your document.
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Publishing: Follow Ms. O’Meara through the following steps to publish your paper.
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1. Copy and paste your revised and edited draft into a NEW pages document.
2. Label that document: L#- Literary Essay-Last, First
3. Remove any highlights and paragraph labels from your paper.
4. Add your heading
5. Add your title
6. Insure all your paragraphs are indented and that your formatting looks good!
7. Submit your published essay to dropbox for your possible 100 points.
8. Submit this weekly process document to dropbox for your 50 possible classwork and homework
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Share and Give Feedback: Copy/Paste your published paper into a post on Haiku. Select at least three
student papers to read and give a sandwich feedback comment to. YOU CAN NOT COMMENT ON
SOMEONE WHO ALREADY HAS 3 COMMENTS. Screen shot your comments and include them below.
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*Homework: AR reading!
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Additional In-class Activities During Spare Time
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1. Take AR Quizzes/Do AR reading
2. Vocabulary City activities/practice for Greek/Latin root words
3. Homework