Here is your extra credit opportunity for our Voices of Civil Rights unit.
Click on this link:
The page should appear as such:
Next, click on "Begin the Journey." You will be taken through four stages of Escape to Safety. Click on the flashing headphones to listen to Walter, our narrator.After listening to each stage (or during), you will answer the below questions:
These are all typed as a "comment" on the comment page of the blog. Copy and paste them into your comment box and then just complete each one.
Only fully completed bloginars (comments) will be accepted. You may earn up to twenty extra credit points!
SUPER BONUS: If you get a parent to complete this bloginar, you will earn an additional twenty points! (Your parent must provide a phone number for me to confirm he/she actually participated in the journey.) Note: Your parent's phone number will not appear on the blog.
DO NOT FORGET TO TYPE YOUR NAME ON YOUR BLOGINAR ANSWERS!
Good luck ... and enjoy your escape!
Yours truly,
M. Kittner
(expires Friday, March 11 at 11:59 p.m.)
6 comments:
COPY AND PASTE THE BELOW QUESTIONS INTO YOUR COMMENT BOX.
DO NOT FORGET YOUR NAME!! (or your parent's name & phone number -- phone numbers will not appear on the blog).
STAGE I: ON THE PLANTATION
1. Pre-reading: What do you know about the Underground Railroad?
2. Our narrator is named:
3. The point-of-view of the selction is (A) 1st (B) 3rd limited (C) 3rd Omniscient
ANSWER:
4. Walter is how many years old?
STAGE II: ESCAPE
1. "I slipped out of bed, pretending to use the NECESSARY."
The following is a synonym for 'necessary' as it is used in this context:
2. Evaluate the pros and cons of a slave running away.
PROS:
CONS:
3. Analyze the mood at the END of this stage. The mood is best describes as:
4. Cite a textual example (inside QMs) to support the mood you selected:
STAGE III: REACHING SAFETY
1. "... an old white man cracks the door and looks me over, sending a chill down my spine."
What adjective best describes how Walter feels in the above quotation:
2. Infer why he feels this way:
3. "I am what he calls a 'fugitive ...'" What word is a good synonym for "fugitive"?
4. Text-to-self connection: Share a time when you faced what you thought was a nearly impossible task:
5. Explain how you gathered the strength to attempt the above task and who influenced you to do it:
STAGE IV: REACHING FREEDOM
1. Based on what we read about Harriet Tubman in Ann Petry's "Guide to Freedom," predict what will happen to Walter in Canada:
2. Hypothesize why Scholastic created this interactive journey (author's purpose).
Stephen Collins +20
Stephen Collins (parent) +20
Great jobs!
MK
Taylor M. +20! Woo-hoo!
Michael Jimenez +20!
Brandis Price +20!
A. Edmondson +20!
Nicole F. +20!
Great work, scholars!
MK
Olivia Lauren Dunivant +20!
Taylor C. +20!
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