LA12A-Period 4 Assignments

See attached instructions. I've also linked a few YouTube videos to help you get started. The Things Fall Apart Crash Course videos are especially useful to help you get started and remind yourself of events that happened earlier in the novel.

Please open a new Google Doc and write down your topic and you thesis statement for the essay that you'll be writing on Things Fall Apart. Remember that you can pick from the topics I provided, come up with you own topic, or combine two or more of the topics I provided. Also, keep in mind that your thesis statement is what you'll be trying to prove in your essay, and should reflect your stance on the topic you chose. Make sure to complete and submit this assignment by 2pm today to get credit for attending class today. Feel free to email me if you have any questions: [email protected]

You will be playing the role of a historian to practice critical reading and thinking skills. Historians make claims based upon evidence in historical sources. In order to gather credible evidence, historians evaluate the reliability, or trustworthiness, of different historical sources. They often do this by considering the point of view and motivations of different historical actors and by comparing how different sources portray historical events. These are all skills that directly transfer to your skills as a reader, writer, and speaker.
You will work on sourcing and contextualizing five documents on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. First look at the PowerPoint slides to give you some historical context, then read the sources included in the Assassination of Lumumba Worksheet and answer the Guiding Questions for each source. Then you will develop a claim addressing the lesson's Central Historical Question: Why was Patrice Lumumba Assassinated?

This final summary will include chapters 21-25 of Things Fall Apart. Make sure to do the reading BEFORE class on TUESDAY (we will be discussing these chapters in class, so if you have any questions about the reading that's the perfect time to bring them up). Be sure to include ALL important events from this section, with enough details to demonstrate WHY each event is important! This will be the primary way that I insure that you are completing the week's reading, so make sure that your summary is thorough, and free of plagiarism (which will earn you an automatic 0).

Read chapters 21-22 of Things Fall Apart and add information from these chapters to your TFA Culture Notes (keep adding to the same document you've been working on). Submit your TFA Culture Notes to Google Classroom once you've finished chapter 22 and come to class on THURSDAY (because I have a sub on Tuesday) ready to discuss these two chapters. If you haven't started your TFA Culture Notes, there's a Google Doc under the assignment "Read Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart".

You will be playing the role of a historian to practice critical reading and thinking skills. Historians make claims based upon evidence in historical sources. In order to gather credible evidence, historians evaluate the reliability, or trustworthiness, of different historical sources. They often do this by considering the point of view and motivations of different historical actors and by comparing how different sources portray historical events. These are all skills that directly transfer to your skills as a reader, writer, and speaker.
First look at the PowerPoint slides to give you some historical context, then read the sources included in the Battle of Adwa Worksheet and answer the Guiding Questions for each source. Then you will develop a claim addressing the lesson's Central Historical Question: How was Ethiopia able to defeat Italy at the battle of Adwa?

Complete this quiz by 2pm on Wednesday, November 18th to be marked present for the day.

This week's summary will include all of this week's reading, chapters 17-20 of Things Fall Apart, and is due BEFORE class on Friday (we will be discussing these chapters in class). Be sure to include ALL important events from this section, with enough details to demonstrate WHY each event is important! This will be the primary way that I insure that you are completing the week's reading, so make sure that your summary is thorough, and free of plagiarism (which will earn you an automatic 0).

Read chapters 17-18 of Things Fall Apart and add information from these chapters to your TFA Culture Notes (keep adding to the same document you've been working on). Submit your TFA Culture Notes to Google Classroom once you've finished chapter 18 and come to class on Tuesday ready to discuss these two chapters. If you haven't started your TFA Culture Notes, there's a Google Doc under the assignment "Read Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart".

This week's summary will include all of this week's reading, chapters 13-16 of Things Fall Apart, and is due BEFORE class on Friday (we will be discussing these chapters in class). Be sure to include ALL important events from this section, with enough details to demonstrate WHY each event is important! This will be the primary way that I insure that you are completing the week's reading, so make sure that your summary is thorough, and free of plagiarism (which will earn you an automatic 0).

Complete this quiz by 2pm on Wednesday, November 4th to be marked present for the day.

Read chapters 13-14 of Things Fall Apart and add information from these chapters to your TFA Culture Notes (keep adding to the same document you've been working on). Submit your TFA Culture Notes to Google Classroom once you've finished chapter 14 and come to class on Tuesday ready to discuss these two chapters. If you haven't started your TFA Culture Notes, there's a Google Doc under the assignment "Read Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart".

Imagine you are a principal at a high school. You're investigating a fight that broke out in the lunchroom. No teachers saw what happened, and all the witnesses are giving different accounts. It's your job to compare and contrast the different accounts of the fight and figure out what happened and who should be suspended. Be sure to consider the reliability of the information you're getting based on the source. Ask yourself, can I trust what this source is telling me? Are they biased or impartial? Do they have a reason to distort the truth?

Complete this quiz by 2pm on Wednesday, October 28th to be marked present for the day.

See the attached document for examples of Spooky Short Stories. Then create a new Google Document called "Spooky Short Story - Day 2" and write your own. Try to make it as spooky as you can using the fewest words possible. When you're finished, upload it to Google Classroom. Happy Halloween week!

See the attached document for examples of Spooky Short Stories. Then create a new Google Document called "Spooky Short Story - Day 1" and write your own. Try to make it as spooky as you can using the fewest words possible. When you're finished, upload it to Google Classroom. Happy Halloween week!

This week's summary will include chapters 9-12 of Things Fall Apart and is due BEFORE class on Friday (we will be discussing these chapters in class). Be sure to include ALL important events from this section, with enough details to demonstrate WHY each event is important! This will be the primary way that I insure that you are completing the week's reading, so make sure that your summary is thorough, and free of plagiarism (which will earn you an automatic 0).

Complete this quiz by 2pm on Wednesday, October 21st in order to be marked present for the day.

Read chapters 9-10 of Things Fall Apart and add information from these chapters to your TFA Culture Notes (keep adding to the same document you've been working on). Submit your TFA Culture Notes to Google Classroom once you've finished chapter 10 and come to class on Tuesday ready to discuss these two chapters. If you haven't started your TFA Culture Notes, there's a Google Doc under the assignment "Read Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart".

This week's summary will include chapters 5-8 of Things Fall Apart and is due BEFORE class on Friday (we will be discussing these chapters in class). Be sure to include ALL important events from this section, with enough details to demonstrate WHY each event is important! This will be the primary way that I insure that you are completing the week's reading, so make sure that your summary is thorough, and free of plagiarism (which will earn you an automatic 0).

Prompt #4: How do you think this global pandemic will end? Feel free to get creative when you imagine an end to this crisis. What will humanity learn from this tragedy? How will the world post-coronavirus be different than before? Try to think of at least one good change and one bad change. Your response should be around a 1/2 a page. Feel free to email me [email protected] if you have any questions.

Complete this quiz by 2pm on Wednesday October 14th in order to be marked present for the day.

Read chapters 5-6 of Things Fall Apart and add information from these chapters to your TFA Culture Notes (keep adding to the same document you've been working on). Submit your TFA Culture Notes to Google Classroom once you've finished chapter 6 and come to class on Monday ready to discuss these two chapters. If you haven't started your TFA Culture Notes, there's a Google Doc under the assignment "Read Chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart".

You will be writing a weekly summary of what you've read in Things Fall Apart. This first summary will be over the first 4 chapters of the novel and is due BEFORE class on Thursday (we will be discussing these chapters in class). Be sure to include ALL important events from this section, with enough details to demonstrate WHY each event is important! This will be the primary way that I insure that you are completing the week's reading, so make sure that your summary is thorough, and free of plagiarism (which will earn you an automatic 0).

Prompt #3: How has COVID-19 pandemic affected the relationships in your life? Is your relationship with your family stronger? More strained? How about other relationships? Are you and your friends drifting apart with social distancing, or are you strengthening relationships with friends via social media and video calls? What about relationships with romantic partners, is love during quarantine more difficult or easier? Are you glad to be in a relationship, or glad your single during the pandemic? Explain. Your response should be around a 1/2 a page. Feel free to email me [email protected] if you have any questions.

Read chapters 1-2 of Things Fall Apart and complete TFA Culture Notes for these chapters. Submit your completed TFA Culture Notes to Google Classroom and come to class on Tuesday ready to discuss the first two chapters.

Watch the TED talk, "The Danger of a Single Story", using the link below. Then complete the questions in the Google Document, "The Danger of a Single Story WKST" using you knowledge of the TED talk and the poem "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Prompt #2: What’s the first thing you want to do after the quarantine is lifted, theaters and other entertainment venues are open, and face-to-face interactions without masks are no longer risky? Why? What things, people, or activities did you take for granted before the quarantine that you now have a new appreciation for? How will your experiences during quarantine influence your behavior once social distancing guidelines are relaxed? Explain. Your response should be around a 1/2 a page. Feel free to email me [email protected] if you have any questions.

We will fill out these notes together as a class while we define and discuss the 12 aspects of culture.

Categorize the various aspects of U.S. culture in the PDF, "Culture in the United States" and type them (or copy and paste them) beneath the corresponding 12 aspects of culture in the "12 Aspects of USA Culture" Google Doc.

Throughout this trimester, you will be writing a series of reflections, observations, and introspections about this new world we all find ourselves living in all of the sudden.

First, create a Google Document which will be used to collect and submit your various journal entries throughout this trimester. Name this document "Fall Writing Journal [insert your first and last name here]". Then share this document with Mr. Leech's email: [email protected] (you will NOT need to share this document again once it has been shared, just keep adding to it throughout the trimester). Now you're ready to start writing! Please number your entries to make it easier for me to grade.

Your first writing prompt is simple, what has your experience with the COVID-19 pandemic been like so far? What has been hard? What/who is helping you get through it? How have you been filling the hours you usually spend at school? Are you working? Or suddenly unemployed? What worries you about the future? Have you experienced any "silver linings" or unexpectedly positive things to come out of this pandemic? Your response should be around a 1/2 a page. Feel free to email me [email protected] if you have any questions.