February Updates
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Reading in the LibraryLink to the GHS Library, so you can reserve your next book!
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February 1st: Vocabulary Quiz 4 tomorrow. Remember to review previous vocabulary because week 5 will have 10 more terms and test your cumulative knowledge. Notecard on your book too!
February 7th: Vocabulary Quiz 5 on Friday, all 50 terms. People are making progress on their 15 book challenge. Today several countries were pinned: Lithuania, Poland, and Jordan. Parts of America can be pinned too. Read and notecard tonight as normal, but if you did not get the class assignment finished, these are the connections to the instructions and website we used today. The They Say/ I Say strategy on the same page will be for tomorrow
February 7th: Vocabulary Quiz 5 on Friday, all 50 terms. People are making progress on their 15 book challenge. Today several countries were pinned: Lithuania, Poland, and Jordan. Parts of America can be pinned too. Read and notecard tonight as normal, but if you did not get the class assignment finished, these are the connections to the instructions and website we used today. The They Say/ I Say strategy on the same page will be for tomorrow
February 8th: Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow, all 50 terms. For reading tonight, look at these two articles and choose the method you like the best, the thinking ladder, or the They Say/I Say/ And So . . .?
February 13th: The following links are available if you need to look back at your sources as you prepare. Tomorrow we will be writing arguments, Thursday we will go to the library, and Friday we will begin debating!
February 14: The structure we went over today is posted here. Debates begin on Friday. Make sure that you have your statements written and printed, in paragraph form before class starts.
What you will need to succeed for your debates:
- Have your speeches typed and ready. Check your format in the document listed below.
- Make sure to have two quality sources minimum.
- Each source needs to be documented using MLA and one of the two reading strategies of your choice (either the Rhetorical Triangle Strategy or the They Say, I Say, And So).
- Make sure to have a separate page for your MLA sources to send 24 hours in advance of your debate.
- Dress Up; debates are formal
- All paperwork will be shown to me on Friday.
The United Nations unit below contains primary documents that have shaped the 20th century and international law. These are reliable sources that you might want to check out. If your topic concerns:
human rights, scroll to page 55
children's rights, scroll to page 73
rules that are boundaries for using force in a foreign nation, scroll to page 96
women's issues, scroll to page 114
human rights, scroll to page 55
children's rights, scroll to page 73
rules that are boundaries for using force in a foreign nation, scroll to page 96
women's issues, scroll to page 114
Audiences are also often moved by other authorities too, like books that contain the beliefs of their faith, elements of the law (like the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence, in addition to the laws of our country) as well as common sense and the principles that parents teach their children.