1. Find 5 historical speeches from world leaders. Read them and complete a speech log for each.

Your group presentation will be based around a lesson that you will teach to the class. It must focus on one of the themes, ideas or concepts that we discussed during class. When you and your group have decided what you want to teach it is STRONGLY advised that you come talk to me so that we can ensure that you are on the right track. Remember, your lesson must contain an activity and end with an effective assessment.
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The Great Gatsby Rubric

The recovery/extra credit assignments are based on the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Follow the directions below.
1. You must read and annotate the novel before I distribute the assignments.
2. When you have finished reading and annotating ch. 1-4, see me to schedule an appointment to take the 1st chapter quiz.
3. Once all reading quizzes have been taken successfully (with a minimum average score of 70%) and I have checked your annotations you may complete up to two of the assignments for replacement grades.
4. I will distribute the assignments to individual students upon completition of the reading.

Directions: answer each of the three constructed response prompts below. Be sure to use specific examples and to cite textual evidence.

Prompt 1
In literature, as in life, the death of an individual profoundly affects the livesof others. From the novels, short stories, full-length plays, and poems you have read, choose a work in which a character’s death has a profound effect on another character. Identify both the character who dies and the character who is deeply affected by the death, but focus your constructed response on the surviving character. Using specific references to the work, explain how the surviving character reacts to the death, the way he or she changes as a result of this loss, and the importance of the character’s death to the overall work.

Prompt 2

If you could spend a day with a person you have read about or seen in a movie, who would that person be? How would you spend your day with that person?
Write a coonstructed response in which you explain how you would spend your day with this person and why it would be so special. Include detailed descriptions and explanations to support your ideas.

Prompt 3

American voter turnout is often less than 50% on national elections. How would you explain this low turnout and what would you do to reverse this trend? Write a constructed response that addresses both parts of this prompt.

Argumentative Essay

Currently, there is a global debate about the competing claims to rightful ownership of many ancient artifacts and treasures. Many times, for a variety of reasons, such objects are housed in museums in countries other than the country where the treasures were discovered or made. If the country of origin decides that it wants a museum to return these treasures, does a museum ever have a right to refuse that request? Some people feel that refusing such a request is truly cultural theft. Others, however, argue that there are cases when the museum, not the nation, has a stronger right to ownership.
Weigh the claims on both sides, and then write an argumentative essay, in your own words, supporting one side of the debate in which you argue EITHER that museums must return cultural treasures to their country of origin if that country requests it OR that museums do sometimes have a right to deny those requests.