Causes in Society
The right to vote.
Someone that grow and harvest the crops, but does not own the land.
Who is a sharecropper.
This man believe in getting into "good trouble", was arrested 40 times in 6 years and was hit over the head trying to cross a bridge in a peaceful march.
Who is John Lewis?
Give me a claim for the following commercial.
https://www.rethinkela.com/2014/04/teaching-inferences-with-commercials/
The dog ate the cat.
What is the 3 letter acronym for claim, evidence, and reasoning?
CER
There were many protests that happened during this past year because of police brutality toward this person.
Who is George Floyd
Laws that are designed to segregate the black community from the white community and strip them of their equal freedoms and rights.
What are the Jim Crow Laws
This man said in a speech a few weeks before he was assassinated that "riots are the language of the unheard."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
In the Doritos commercial what would be a good piece of evidence to support the claim that the dog ate the cat?
https://www.rethinkela.com/2014/04/teaching-inferences-with-commercials/
Dog is seen digging a hole and putting a small collar in it.
A statement that is written to sound like a fact, but is actually an opinion. Usually the beginning of the writing prompt.
What is a claim?
What is the name of the protest that took place in North Dakota a few years ago (2017) and was primarily initiated by Native Americans?
The North Dakota pipeline.
When people are to be kept separate from others (schools, diners, bathrooms, etc..) because of race.
What is segregation?
After living thought the unfairness of Jim Crow laws, John Lewis said he got into this, something his grandparents and parents had warned him to to do.
What is "good trouble"?
Provide a solid claim for the following video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSUe_m19FY&list=PLBiQGs1J86Qw0ERQZdSuhCOV20iBkoX0U&index=14&t=3s
People are too reliant on technology.....You cannot just sit around in life and wait for things to happen but keep pushing forward.
When providing evidence to support a claim that is someone else's words or information one must do this.
What is to cite?
People protested this in the 1960's, when young men were drafted to go to war.
What is the Vietnam War.
People gather to call attention to a cause, often will march for the cause.
What is protesting?
When people become frustrated while working for changes and fairness and begin to feel like no one is listening so protests are no longer peaceful.
What is "riots are the language of the unheard"?
What evidence can you pull from this video to support a claim?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrSUe_m19FY&list=PLBiQGs1J86Qw0ERQZdSuhCOV20iBkoX0U&index=14&t=3s
Man and woman standing on the escalator calling for help and waiting for someone to fix it. Being completely reliant on technology rather than just walking up the steps.
When the writer explains to the reader how the evidence supports the claim and connects to the two together to describe why the evidence is important it is called?
What is reasoning?
What was the name of the wall that 5 million people protested in 1989 and were able to put a stop to?
The Berlin Wall.
Women's movement to gain the right to vote.
What is suffrage movement?
What did John Lewis mean when he told his fellow marcher "there is too much water in this river for us to jump, we must go straight ahead"?
Once the march began, there was no going back and only one direction to go. Keep going forward and moving towards change.
What is the little girl's claim in the following video and what evidence does she provide?
The dad is an alien. He wears funny clothes, drinks weird things, speaks a different language.
When people take a cause that they are passionate about and are trying to call attention to and are seeking to change how society deals with that cause and any law regarding to the cause.
What is activism