Unit 2 Independent Texts
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💡 You may choose which text students will read for their independent tasks or allow them to choose their own.
Text Options
Text Options
Frank McCain Dies—Helped Start Sit‐In; Movement at Greensboro Lunch Counter by Jeff Tiberi (media)
How the Children of Birmingham Changed the Civil‐Rights Movement by Lottie L. Joiner
Sheyann Webb from Selma, Lord, Selma as told to Frank Sikora
The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan by David Margolick
Fannie Lou Hamer BBC (media)
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💡 This writing task should be completed as independently as possible as a timed on-demand assessment (1-2 days).
Performance-Based Assessment: On-Demand/Timed Informative
Performance-Based Assessment: On-Demand/Timed Informative
Writing Prompt
In this unit, you read about various people who are a part of the struggle for Civil Rights in the United States. Some used words to insipre others and share their own experiences, while others used words as a call to action.
Write an informative essay on the following:
Explain how words have the power to provoke, calm, or inspire.
Use evidence from at least three of the selections and your research from this unit to express and support your thesis. If necessary, do more outside research to support your ideas with examples, facts, and quotations. Ensure that your ideas are fully supported, that you use a formal, objective tone, and that your organization is logical and coherent.
Academic Vocabulary
disrupt
coherent
notation
aggregate
express
💡It is essential to have students use these words throughout the unit, particularly in their performance tasks/assessments.
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