Friday,+February+21

Today's Objectives
RL.10.3 Analyze how complex characters develop and advance the plot and theme. RL.10.4 Analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. RL.10.6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States. RL.10.10 Read and comprehend grade-level text. ‍‍ Anchor Text: [|//Cry, The Beloved Country//]by Alan Paton

Bell Work: Student Daily News
For the following items, use the article. Write your answers on your answer sheet for the questions you have already done. Label these clearly with today's date.

1. Which of the following pieces of text evidence BEST supports this statement:

The villages of northeastern Nigeria should be receiving better protection from the military.

 * CNN reports that an "Islamist rebellion" has "claimed thousands of lives since 2009."
 * In a CNN news brief on Monday, a survivor of the attack that killed at least 106 people in a Christian farming village in Borno State stated that "there were no security forces in the town."
 * CNN reports that the gunmen, Boko Haram Islamists, "arrived in the village riding in trucks and on several motorcycles."
 * Babagana Gwoni, a survivor of the attack in the village of Doran Baga, affirmed that the gunment "looted fish and foodstuffs before setting houses on fire."


 * Write the sentence on your paper!

2. Now, write a detail sentence to support this "point" sentence:

Edward Snowden has widespread popular support in Brazil.

 * Remember to use a signal phrase and embedded quotations.

Movie
Watch the first part of //Cry, The Beloved Country//.

Homework
Posts should be submitted by tonight at midnight. Read the rest of Book II by Monday!