Unit 1: Justice and Community Resources

Guiding slideshow for our Justice and Community unit

Unit 1: Justice

Skill focus areas:

the rhetorical situation (WECAMP)

claims and evidence

appeals to reason, credibility, and emotion

Style as a rhetorical strategy

Banneker letter to Jefferson with WECAMP.pdf

Banneker Letter to Jefferson full text

Excerpts from Civil Disobedience

Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" extract and directions

Letter From a Birmingham Jail - excerpt without prompts

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" full text

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Reading #1 Directions

Directions for "B'ham Jail" claims and evidence

Letter from a Birmingham Jail Reading #2: Analyzing SST (Structure Style Tone)

Directions for "B'ham Jail" structure and style analysis

2020 Kennedy Speech annotation #1 directions

Directions for Kennedy Inaugural Claims and evidence

2020 Kennedy Speech Style

Directions for Kennedy Inaugural Structure and Style analysis

Ta-Nehisi Coates Opening Statement on Reparations

Ta-Nehisi Coates HR40 statement before the House Judiciary Committee with directions

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Supreme Court Nomination Statement

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Supreme Court Nomination Statement with directions

Taking stock of the texts and ideas in our Justice unit

Taking stock of texts and ideas in our Justice Unit directions

On Compassion by Barbara Ascher

On Compassion full text

On Compassion multiple choice questions.pdf

On Compassion multiple choice questions

“On Compassion” (from 50 Essays pages 46-48) Analyzing SST (Structure Style Tone)

On Compassion Directions

Health and Happiness Robert Putnam.pdf

"Health and Happiness" full text

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Health and Happiness Multiple Choice Answers:

1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. B 9. E 10. D

Health and Happiness Questions

Your editable copy of the questions is posted in a Canvas assignment.

You can make a copy of the Putnam questions document here if you can't open and use Canvas.

Health and Happiness Multiple Choice Q.pdf

"Health and Happiness" multiple choice

Krakauer Death of an Innocent.pdf

"Death of an Innocent" full text

Check out some photos and information about Denali National Park before reading "Death of an Innocent"

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Directions for reading and responding to

"Death of an Innocent":

Use Kami (or another annotation tool) to open and annotate "Death of an Innocent" (or take notes in a document).

In this essay, Chris McCandless, the young man featured in this essay, discovers that "[h]appiness [is] only real when shared."

Through your annotations explain how and why McCandless comes to this conclusion.

Annotate other connections between this essay and "Health and Happiness."

On Monday (Oct. 19), we will work in small groups to further discuss connections between McCandless's discovery and Putnam's theories.

An orientation to James Baldwin

Baldwin print copy

Full text and directions for reading and responding to James Baldwin's "Letter to my Nephew"

Make a copy of the James Baldwin "Letter to My Nephew" full text and directions. Submit your completed work to the Canvas assignment portal.

Assessment: writing an essay using claims, evidence, and patterns of development

Culminating Assessment: crafting an argument using claims, evidence, and patterns of development

Justice-Community Claim Written Task Works Cited 2020

Justice and Community Works Cited

Make a copy and then delete all but the sources you used in your Community-Justice written task.

2020 Texts we have read in our Justice-Community Unit

List of texts we studied in our Justice-Community unit

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