In order to help all students access content and engage with their learning, the following ways have been set to deliver content and to communicate:
Con el fin de ayudar a todos los estudiantes a acceder al contenido y participar en su aprendizaje, se han establecido las siguientes formas para entregar contenido y comunicarse:
1. Schoology is the primary access point for content.
Schoology es el principal punto de acceso al contenido.
2. Teacher’s Google number (323) 450-7810 (Parents/guardians may request the personal number for assignment submissions.)
3. Email: jlc9191@lausd.net
In the event that a student does not have access to a device and/or WiFi, he or she may do the following assignments and submit written responses by text. Please take a picture of your assignment with the following information included in the paper:
Full name
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Date
Assignment Week
Assignment Title/Name
WEEK 1 – #2 Storytellers PLUS ME
Answer the following questions with at least one complete sentence for each question. Number each answer from 1 to 7
Part One: People in Your Life
1. Who helped raise you? Mom? Dad? Grandma? Uncles? Aunts?
2. Who or what else is in your family? Extended family members, friends, and/or pets
3. Who are some of your friends?
4. Who was your favorite teacher? (In Elementary School)
5. Who is your role model? A role model is someone you look up to or admire. Pick someone who is alive.
6. Which role do you enjoy most? (Being a student? A son? A daughter? A 7th grader? Team member? Athlete?
7. Which role do you enjoy least? (Being a student? A son? A daughter? A 7th grader? Team member? Athlete?
WEEK 2 – #1 Storytellers – PLUS ME – About Me & Settings (Questions 8-12)
Answer each question with at least one complete sentence. Use transitional words where possible.
Part Two: About Me & Settings
8. Where were you born? Which city? Which hospital? Which country?
9. Where did you grow up? What neighborhood or which city?
10. Where is your family from? Where were they born? In which state or country?
11. Where do you live? What neighborhood or which city? Who lives with you?
12. Where do you spend your free time? Which places? With which friends or family members?
WEEK 2 – #2 Storytellers PLUS ME (Questions 13 & 14)
This time, write two separate paragraphs about three struggles and three accomplishments you have experienced.
A struggle may be speaking in public or during class. Other types of struggles may be in reading, writing, making friends, keeping friends, moving to a different house, parents separating or getting divorced, being an only child without siblings to play, getting enough sleep every day, managing your time, focusing on schoolwork, etc.
An accomplishment may be winning a medal, getting perfect attendance, winning a competition, a trophy, running the marathon, becoming fit or healthier, learning how to cook, becoming more independent, passing all your classes, etc.
Write at least three to seven sentences for each paragraph. Describe each experience and how you feel or felt about it.
There will be a total of six experiences.
Part Three: Struggles & Accomplishments
13. Identify three struggles you have experienced.
14. Identify three accomplishments you have experienced.
WEEK 3 – #1 Storytellers PLUS ME – (Questions 15 & 16)
Answer the following questions with at least three complete sentences for question #15.
15. Identify 2 lessons from your life that you learned.
16. Create a timeline identifying moments from your life in chronological order.
Example:
The first lesson I have learned is that in order to give respect, love, trust, or believe in someone else, that I have to do that first for myself.
A second lesson I learned in life was that …
Another lesson I’ve learned is …
3. For question #16 you need to Create a timeline identifying moments from your life in chronological order.
Example: Each sentence includes a year to indicate its place in the timeline.
I was born in Central Los Angeles in 2008.
My family moved to Culver City in 2010 when I was only two years old.
My little sister was born in 2011.
My mother got a promotion at work in 2012.
My entire family traveled to Mexico to visit my grandparents in 2013.
In 2014 we bought our first pet dog; we call him Fido.
I started Middle School in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic.
Notice that the timeline doesn’t have to be only about you. It can also include facts about people that you grew up with, but they are important because they helped to shape who you are.
WEEK 4 – #1 Snowboarding Vocabulary
First, learn and practice the vocabulary words in Quizlet.
Then, use each of the vocabulary words in a complete sentence.
List: variety, brainchild, inception, bindings, snurfer, manufacturing, recreational, requires, range, and gain
Links
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Period 5
Period 6
WEEK 4 – Freckle Assessment 7A
Please complete the pre-assessments, Snowboarding, and Assessment A
Log in to FRECKLE
Use the period code to get in. Your name must match the name on the period roster.
Period 2 Code: TQHG68
Period 3 Code: N9RT37
Period 4 Code: AWM9ZB
Period 5 Code: B2RYFP
Period 6 Code: 5PRSB5
WEEK 5 – #1 Thank You Ma’am
First, listen to the first video. Then, read along Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes.
After watching these two vides. Read the same story in sections and then answer the sentence starter or sentence frames.
Thank You, Ma’am (by Langston Hughes)
She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder. It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with the single tug the boy gave it from behind. But the boy’s weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk, and his legs flew up. the large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled.
After reading this first paragraph, finish the following sentence starters or sentence frames.
1. I notice that …
2. I wonder …
| After that the woman said, “Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.” She still held him. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?” Firmly gripped by his shirt front, the boy said, “Yes’m.” The woman said, “What did you want to do it for?” The boy said, “I didn’t aim to.” She said, “You a lie!”By that time two or three people passed, stopped, turned to look, and some stood watching. “If I turn you loose, will you run?” asked the woman. “Yes’m,” said the boy. “Then I won’t turn you loose,” said the woman. She did not release him. |
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After reading this first paragraph, finish the following sentence starters or sentence frames.
3. I notice that …
4. I wonder …
5. I think the boy …
| “I’m very sorry, lady, I’m sorry,” whispered the boy. “Um-hum! And your face is dirty. I got a great mind to wash your face for you. Ain’t you got nobody home to tell you to wash your face?” “No’m,” said the boy. “Then it will get washed this evening,” said the large woman starting up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her. He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans. The woman said, “You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong. Least I can do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?” |
After reading this first paragraph, finish the following sentence starters or sentence frames.
6. I wonder …
7. I think the woman said to the boy, “You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong.” because …
| “No’m,” said the being dragged boy. “I just want you to turn me loose.” “Was I bothering you when I turned that corner?” asked the woman. “No’m.” “But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.” Sweat popped out on the boy’s face and he began to struggle. Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a half-nelson about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street. When she got to her door, she dragged the boy inside, down a hall, and into a large kitchenette- furnished room at the rear of the house. She switched on the light and left the door open. The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house. Some of their doors were open, too, so he knew he and the woman were not alone. The woman still had him by the neck in the middle of her room. |
After reading this first paragraph, finish the following sentence starters or sentence frames.
8. I notice that …
9. I wonder …
| She said, “What is your name?” “Roger,” answered the boy. “Then, Roger, you go to that sink and wash your face,” said the woman, whereupon she turned him loose—at last. Roger looked at the door—looked at the woman—looked at the door—and went to the sink. Let the water run until it gets warm,” she said. “Here’s a clean towel.” “You gonna take me to jail?” asked the boy, bending over the sink. “Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,” said the woman. “Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?” “There’s nobody home at my house,” said the boy. |
After reading this first paragraph, finish the following sentence starters or sentence frames.
10. Roger asked the woman, ” ___________________________ ?”
11. I notice that …
12. I wonder …
| “Then we’ll eat,” said the woman, “I believe you’re hungry—or been hungry—to try to snatch my pockekbook.” “I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes,” said the boy. “Well, you didn’t have to snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes,” said Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. “You could of asked me.” “M’am?” The water dripping from his face, the boy looked at her. There was a long pause. A very long pause. After he had dried his face and not knowing what else to do dried it again, the boy turned around, wondering what next. The door was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run! The woman was sitting on the day-bed. After a while she said, “I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.” There was another long pause. The boy’s mouth opened. Then he frowned, but not knowing he frowned. |
After reading this first paragraph, answer the following question.
13. What does Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones mean in the following quote? She says to Roger, “I were young once and I wanted things I could not get.”
| The woman said, “Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that.” Pause. Silence. “I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither tell God, if he didn’t already know. So you set down while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable.” In another corner of the room behind a screen was a gas plate and an icebox. Mrs. Jones got up and went behind the screen. The woman did not watch the boy to see if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse which she left behind her on the day-bed. But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye, if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now. |
After reading this first paragraph, answer the following prompt.
14. Cite evidence or provide a quote from the text that indicates that Roger was changing and that he didn’t want to leave or run away.
Use ACE to answer this question. (Watch the video.)
| “Do you need somebody to go to the store,” asked the boy, “maybe to get some milk or something?” “Don’t believe I do,” said the woman, “unless you just want sweet milk yourself. I was going to make cocoa out of this canned milk I got here.” “That will be fine,” said the boy. She heated some lima beans and ham she had in the icebox, made the cocoa, and set the table. The woman did not ask the boy anything about where he lived, or his folks, or anything else that would embarrass him. Instead, as they ate, she told him about her job in a hotel beauty-shop that stayed open late, what the work was like, and how all kinds of women came in and out, blondes, red-heads, and Spanish. Then she cut him half of her ten-cent cake. “Eat some more, son,” she said. When they were finished eating she got up and said, “Now, here, take these ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s—because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet. I got to get my rest now. But I wish you would behave yourself, son, from here on in.” She led him down the hall to the front door and opened it. “Good-night! Behave yourself, boy!” she said, looking out into the street. The boy wanted to say something else other than “Thank you, m’am” to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed to say “Thank you” before she shut the door. And he never saw her again. |
After reading this first paragraph, answer the following questions.
15. How do you feel about the characters?
16. What do you find interesting?
17. What can you connect with as a tween or teenager?
WEEK 6 #1 PLOT DIAGRAM – THANK YOU MA’AM
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