Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer

Lesson 10
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ELA

Unit 5

5th Grade

Lesson 10 of 31

Objective


Write your own Ten-Point program addressing issues in your community and defend which points are most important and why.

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Writing Prompt

Using the Black Panthers' Ten-Point Program as inspiration, create your own Five or Ten-Point Program to address issues in your own family, school, community, or the wider world. 

Then, write a multi-paragraph essay explaining which points are the most important and why.

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Common Core Standards


  • L.5.1.c — Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
  • SL.5.1 — Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • SL.5.2 — Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  • W.5.1 — Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information
  • W.5.1.a — Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.
  • W.5.1.b — Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
  • W.5.1.c — Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).

Supporting Standards

L.5.6
W.5.4
W.5.6
W.5.8
W.5.10
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