Independent Reading - History / Social Studies - Level 1

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Reading Response - Construct and Express


Create and collaborate with others using a variety of ways.

Read for at least 2 more hours. Your goal is to finish your book or article(s) before the 4 Tasks of this Challenge are completed.

You can do this in one sitting or you can do it 4 times for thirty minutes each time or 6 times for twenty minutes each. But it has to be focused, uninterrupted reading. No multi-tasking during your reading time.

After you've read your book or your article for at least 2 more hours, open the same Google Document that you started for the previous Task and plan to write for about more 30 minutes on this same document.

Begin by freewriting about your text again. Write non-stop for 5 or ten minutes about anything that comes into your head at this point about your book or article.

Then turn to the Literature Response Guides or to this guide, "General Response to a Non-Fiction Article. Quote from your book and from a Discussion on Youth Voices to compare and contrast a topic discussed in both places.

Once again, revise and proofread your Doc with a teacher and a couple of peers. Work to integrate our earlier writing with this newest writing. When you have finished your revisions and corrections, post your response to your text on Youth Voices as a Discussion.

In the Post Comment button here (on P2PU) add a link to your Discussion on Youth Voices. Do this before you click Yes, I'm done .

We encourage students to break out of the overly structured guides and create your own kinds of response. However, we do ask you to keep in mind the following guidelines:

  1. Begin by doing a freewrite: your first thoughts about this section of the book or article. You'll need to revise this writing before you publish it on Youth Voices.
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  2. Be specific about your response to your reading, and give an example from the text. Quote from the text.
     
  3. Quote a second section from the text when you make connections, ask questions, track elements of the text, or compare it to other things.
     
  4. End by predicting what you think might happen next, and say how you feel about continuing your reading

 

If you are taking an economics class or if you just interested in economics. Read Sacred Economics, (in our Youth Voices Crocooc folder) by Charles Eisenstein. 

 

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Task Discussion


  • JohnathanR said:

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1np9odytTqKgTV4YI3UdBao5NOwWriAoMWhlMNQl6NGw/pub

     

    http://youthvoices.net/discussion/sacred-economics-chapter-2

    on April 19, 2013, 1:36 p.m.

  • Miguel said:

    http://youthvoices.net/discussion/my-take-economic-analysis

    on Feb. 21, 2013, 1:07 p.m.

  • Monisha Nelson said:

    Quoting a speach.

    Yesterday a few teachers and student from my school Bronx Academy Senior High, went on a trip to see a play called “The Blackout”, which is based on the short story “The Night We Became People Again”. Most people went to see this play because they either need an spanish credit or english credit. I myself just needed a few reading points on my grid so I can finish up this one credit I need. I really enjoyed the play and how both speakers took played both parts as the narrator and the character crazytop, and also other side characters as well.

    “I can tell you about it better than anybody because of an coincidence you don't know about.”  Hearing this quote made me realize that there was more to the story then what we had already knew. He the narrator had his own perspective of the story that he wanted to tell.

    Another quote that stuck out to me from the play was “well lets see if next time we can make a nice match”. Seeing this quote I see how this woman loves her husband. Hes being considerate to her feelings not really letting her know he's glad its a boy instead of a girl. He put his pride aside and said something to make her feel good about her having a son as her first born. Me personally would want someone who thinks of my feeling first before theres sometimes, wouldn't you ?

     Another quote that surprised me was something one of the speakers said was,it seems we’re not the only ones celebrating”.This surprised me because In both the story and the play it took me awhile to really understand what was the party really about. Then i I realized these people have a whole lot to be thankful for and just because theres no power in the city doesn't mean they should celebrate. That shows a lot about a person. how one thing can happen in the world and bring a whole neighborhood together.

    This last quote really stood out to me. “Just fooling around , y’know, because that foreman was an even nicer guy than the first. Thats because its to his benefit. He puts us in a good mood and gets us to work that much harder.He thinks I don't know, but any day now i'm going to tell him i'm not as dumb as he might think” The narrator feels the foreman THINKS just because he comes from a place where there isn't much and most of the people there don't know much that he can talk and manipulate him into doing more work by just “Being nice”. Both narrators established that just because you come from somewhere doesn't mean you exactly what people judged you to be.  

    on Nov. 29, 2012, 10:07 a.m.