Assignments

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1	2 In your opinion and after watching the video, Is it better to listen to your friends or the adults in your life? Who has more influence on a child, their friends or family? 6 PM	3 Four Block Independent Reading Mondays 6 PM Unit 1 Coming of Age handout. 3 PM Four Block Independent Reading Mondays 6 PM After watching the brief TED talk on IQ tests, choose one of the questions to answer. 6 PM	4	5	6	7
8	9	10 Summarizing important events in preparation for Event Tracker 3 PM How is China’s version of TikTok different from the American version? What negative influences does the American TikTok have on American children and how they see themselves? 3 PM	11 The Tiananmen Square Massacre Article 3 PM Event Tracker practice launch 3 PM	12	13	14
15	16 In paragraph 20 of "Safety of Numbers" the father says "There were other scores that mattered. Seventeen million of Mao’s youth were sent to the countryside for reeducation. Ten thousand arrested in connection with the June fourth movement. Hundreds to thousands killed at Tiananmen Square. “Isn’t that the scariest thing,” he says, “the fact that those death-toll numbers are missing?” 3 PM	17	18 Determining the Theme 3 PM Open Book Test 3 PM Event Tracker for Safety Of Numbers 3 PM	19	20	21
22	23 Based on the video, What are two positive and one negative way that parents affect their children? 3 PM Think about and start brainstorming your answers to the focus question of the unit. 3 PM PART 2: DISCUSSING THE UNIT’S BIG QUESTIONS 3 PM	24 Choose a Partner and complete Parents/Children Handout out 3 PM	25	26 Launch: “The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.” ~ Albert Einstein 3 PM Exit Ticket: After watching the brief video, answer the question: If you do something bad while in a group, should you receive a tough punishment? 3 PM	27 Based off the video, What is one way that social or peer pressure can be good and one way it can be bad? 3 PM	28
29	30 Vocabulary for Unit 1: Following the Crowd 3 PM Launch: Do you think Karina should embrace a unique style? Why or why not? 6 PM	31 Based on the video on Conformity Bias, come up with four (4) examples of how people conform. 5 PM Four Block Independent Reading Mondays 3 PM	1	2	3 Independent Writing: Conformity Article 2 PM	4