Sample Lesson Plan – Close Reading English Close Reading “The Rider” page 61 Lesson Overview Depending on class needs‚ this close reading should take two to three days. In this two-day lesson‚ the teacher begins by having students read and annotate the selected passage individually or as part of a class oral reading. Students then work with vocabulary and story questions. On the second day‚ students re-read the passage with a partner. They check their annotations and answers. They work
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The Freedom Riders: Terminators of Segregation Picture being on a bus traveling throughout the South in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement‚ knowing that when the bus arrives at the first stop‚ a group of activists against segregation called Freedom Riders will be viciously attacked by mobs of whites. Any advice to stay home and avoid the situation was disregarded by these brave Americans because defending the rights of African Americans was most important. Each rider understood that they
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The Free Rider Problem The free rider issue has become one of the most serious economic issues today. The free rider is a lazy type person who wants the benefits that others bring in without having to do the work. The free rider typically takes advantage of a public good. Living in a civilized society presents many opportunities for free riding‚ which we have yet to find a way to control. Economists regard the possibility for free riding as a problem for the free market‚ which usually leads
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Bull Rider Chapter 1 Vocabulary Words: Glance - A brief or hurried look. Glaring - Staring fiercely or fixedly. Snarled - Make an aggressive growl with bared teeth. Grinning - Express with a broad smile. Trample - Tread on and crush. Hollow - Having a hole or empty space inside. Fear less – Lacking of fear. Shrugged - Dismiss something as unimportant. Bluffing - Try to deceive someone as to one’s abilities or intentions. Sneered - Smile or speak in a contemptuous or mocking manner shrugged
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A Place Where the sea Remembers is a book written by the author Sandra Benitez. The story takes place in a small town in Santiago‚ Mexico. Candelario (the salad maker)‚ Marta (the 16 year old that’s pregnant)‚ Fulgencio (the photographer that loses all of his equipment are all characters that go through hardships and unfairness. The conflicts this essay will have are person vs person because the characters that I will be describing are having problems with other characters. The first conflict will
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As highlighted in the previous sources‚ the 1960’s counterculture revolution can be widely portrayed as an era where there was a clear challenge and feeling of hostility towards the older establishment generation of authority‚ as well as a period in American culture where psychedelic drugs and rock music were widely popular. The 1969 film Easy Rider is a very well known film‚ which portrayed many of the cultural aspects and characteristics of the Hippie age. The message of this film clearly is to
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The Freedom Riders were brave both black and white people who were ready to state their point‚ end segregation in the south. They were tired of the ways of the government they would have a law but not enforce it. The Freedom riders got on buses and drove through the south‚ all they needed was to get the attention of the Kennedy admiration who would help them accomplish their goal. Same goes for Little rock nine these 9 courageous students were willing to sacrifice everything just to go to a better
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The movie Freedom Riders has a great display of the variation of ethnicity throughout. Wilson High encases this situation very well. The different ethnicities in this movie are at a constant war with each other‚ but not for long. When Ms. Gruwell comes to teach at Wilson‚ in room 203‚ the world is changed. At the beginning of the movie‚ the kids in room 203 were very disruptive‚ impolite‚ and always caused fights with each other. The different ethnicities did not mingle and if they did it was
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traditional American culture and the American counterculture. Although this culture clash‚ more often than not‚ manifested in prejudice‚ as seen in moments of Easy Rider (Hopper‚ 1969)‚ it is representative of the silent majority’s and counterculture’s desire to tear each other down‚ which is a more abstract form of violence. Easy Rider can be categorized as a left cycle film based on Robert B. Ray’s definition of left and right cycles in his piece Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema. The protagonists
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has been written about the strong family message in Whale Rider‚ and there is no mistaking that this story of intergenerational love and conflict is‚ on the surface‚ about the mending of a broken family‚ but there is another aspect that hasn’t been written about—or at least only touched on—and that’s the movie’s theme. It isn’t about family or even the need to honor the hand in glove relationship of tradition and progress. At root‚ Whale Rider is one of the best pictures about leadership that has been
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