Where are you from?
Disclosure
Journals
Essential Questions
Poetry
100

What does ancestry mean? 

your relatives who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family

100

What percentage is your participation worth? 

30%

100

How many points are the journals worth? 

5

100

What is an essential question? 

An open ended question to guide student thinking and help create discussions and connections to the real world.

100

Which poet did we read? 

Gary Soto

200

What does origin mean? 

the cause of something, or where something begins or comes from

200

What are you supposed to bring to class everyday? 

1) Charged laptop, 2) pencil, 3) binder, 4) planner

200

What color is a 2 on the rubric? 

yellow

200

What is our year long essential question? 

What shapes us? How do we shape the world around us? 

200

What is Gary Soto's nationality? 

American

300

What does ethnicity mean?

a large group of people with a shared culture, language, history, set of traditions, etc., or the fact of belonging to one of these groups:

300

What percentage of your grade are projects? 

40%

300

What is one prompt you remember? 

Answers will vary

300

Where is the essential question/

On the board

300

What is Gary Soto's ethnicity

Mexican-American

400

What does belongingness mean? 

the state or feeling of belonging to a particular group

400

Where can you find and turn in all of our assignments? 

On canvas
400

What percentage of your grade are the journals? 

30%

400

What two mini- essential questions have we done this term?

Where are you from? 

How does poetry reflect life?

400

What does Gary Soto write about?

Chicano life and chicano issues. 

500

How do you answer "where are you from"? 

Answers will vary

500

What is the lowest grade you can have and still pass? 

27% is a D 

500

How do you get a five? 

Include details and make connections to the essential questions. 

500

How would you answer our current essential question? 

Answers will vary. At least 2 sentences. 

500

What is an Ode? 

What two mini- essential questions have we done this term?

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