Caste
What is caste?
Caste is a ranking system that divides people into different levels.
True or false: According to Gapminder, some countries are rich and others are poor.
False! Gapminder is based on research that shows poor, middle-income and rich people in every country.
What's the purpose of the Lead and Leadership study guide?
To help people learn about lead and prevent lead poisoning.
Name 3 different ways we have practiced writing in class so far.
Any 3 answers are fine:
Writing on paper and scanning it to send Cyndi
Writing in Google docs (about caste, coronavirus and the COVID-19 vaccine, etc)
Writing questions for each other about our first writing assignment
Writing ideas in response to passages on ReadWorks
Emailing Cyndi
Name the x-words in the DO family.
do, does, did
What religion is caste associated with?
Hinduism
What does the Dollar Street website show?
It shows the way families live at various income levels in different countries. It lets you compare, for example, how a family lives on $10,000 in Ukraine compared to in China.
How can you save your homework in the Lead and Leadership study guide?
Download it to your computer; don't just fill in the answers online. Each time you open it and write answers, save it before you close it.
True or false: Our first writing assignment was a summary and response essay, like the CLIP test
False. It was a different type of writing.
Name the x-words in the HAVE family.
have, has, had
Name at least 1 of the terms used to refer to the group of people at the bottom of the caste system.
the untouchables
the Dalits
What's the point of the 4 income levels?
A correct answer will include some or all of this:
Each level is based on how much money people earn per day, from $2 a day at level 1 to $32 a day at level 2. Note: This is about income, not expenses.
The 4 levels show how many billions of people live at each level. More people live in the middle (levels 2 and 3) than at the low and high ends (levels 1 and 2).
This is a little tricky because level 2 seems low; your weekend homework will help clarify this. :)
Name 2 sources of lead poisoning from lessons 1 or 2 in the study guide.
peeling paint in a building with old paint when lead paint was still legal
dust in a place that has lead paint (peeling)
children putting paint chips in their mouths
What was our first assignment about?
Any of these answers are fine:
A positive introduction
A time when you were at your best
Name the x-words in the BE family.
am, is, are, was, were
A woman born into the lowest level of the caste system moved to New York and changed her life. What's her job here? Possible bonus points if anyone can remember and pronounce her name well.
Her name is Gidla, Sujatha Gidla.
Explain the concept of income mountains.
(Concept means idea.)
Income mountains show the difference inside a country, including how the income levels changes over time.
It's not about how one country has more money than another; it's about how each country has people at different income levels.
Lesson 1 focuses on two groups of people who are particularly at risk of lead poisoning. Tell us about 1 of the characters who was at risk and explain how they learned about it.
The groups are pregnant women and young children.
Gabriela is pregnant in lesson 1 and her doctor found evidence of lead in her blood.
What was our most recent writing assignment about and how did it start? Bonus points for adding information about what it might be connected to
Early math memories - We started by taking dictation of 3 questions related to this topic. We had to write 1 paragraph about each question.
Bonus: This topic is connected to one of your books. Which one?
Name the 9 x-words that are MODALS.
can, could
will, would
shall, should
must, might, may
Name at least 3 jobs that people at the lowest level in the caste system do.
hard work that gets your hands dirty, like working the fields, cleaning toilets and taking care of dead bodies
Name at least 3 of the 5 categories used to show how people live at the 4 different income levels. Give examples to make those categories clear.
drinking water (from a well, a pump, an outdoor faucet or an indoor faucet with a filter)
transportation (on foot, by bike, by moped or motorcycle, by car)
cooking (on an open fire with wood outside, with a propane tank, with a 2-burner stove, with a stove and oven)
eating (from simple food with few ingredients and no utensils or just a spoon, served in a plastic bowl, to more variety with more ingredients, ceramic dishes and more utensils - fork, spoon, knife, etc)
sleeping (on a mat on the floor, on a mattress on cinder blocks, on a better mattress on the floor, on a bed)
Explain who took action to prevent lead poisoning in lessons 1 and 2.
In lesson 1, the doctor took action first by doing a blood lead test. Then Gabriela took action by trying to stay away from lead (in peeling paint, dust, etc).
In lesson 2, Shumi, the babysitter, noticed peeling paint in the kitchen and bathroom. She told the family and they told the landlord. (She was taking care of a toddler named Pedro, and Pedro's father asked the landlord to fix the peeling paint.)
Explain the power of quotation marks to prevent plagiarism.
(Maybe this is easy for 500 points; let me know!)
We use quotation marks around anything we copy from another source, like the quotes we took from Ants Among Elephants in the Caste spring 2021 doc. If we don't use quotation marks when we copy a sentence from a book or another source, it's plagiarism.
Tell me how to find the subject and verb, based on the location of the x-word in a statement (not a question).
3 steps:
1. Find the x-word.
2. Look left for the subject.
3. Look right for the verb.
(In a question, the x-word goes first. Then the subject and then the verb. Do you understand?)