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Book: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
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How do Spoony and Rashad's father's perspectives on the police differ? Provide specific evidence from pages 46–53 to support your answer and carefully explain your thinking.
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W.8.1 — Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W.8.5 — With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
W.8.9 — Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
RI.8.1 — Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI.8.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6—8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
W.8.4 — Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.8.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Outline and a paragraph response, including a strong claim statement, important details, and a concluding statement.
Define significant terms related to racial justice.
Standards
RI.8.2
Analyze how the authors of All American Boys characterize Rashad and develop his perspective in Chapter 1.
RL.8.3RL.8.6
Compare Rashad and Quinn's perspectives of the assault and explain how reading both perspectives deepens the reader's understanding of the event.
Explain how racism and racial bias shape the way that characters in All American Boys—and people more generally—are viewed.
RI.8.3RL.8.3
W.8.1W.8.5W.8.9
RL.8.3W.8.1W.8.1.aW.8.1.eW.8.5
Draft and revise a paragraph response, focusing on writing strong analysis.
RL.8.3W.8.1W.8.1.bW.8.1.cW.8.5
Analyze how Smith uses figurative language in his TED Talk to develop and support his central idea.
RI.8.2RI.8.4
Analyze how the authors of All American Boys develop the narrator's point of view and emotions.
RL.8.6
Analyze how the authors develop the characters' perspectives of themselves and others in All American Boys.
Analyze how being assaulted impacts Rashad and how witnessing the assault impacts Quinn and the community.
RL.8.3
Explain how the events in this chapter reveal Quinn's beliefs and lead to a change in his perspective.
Outline a paragraph analyzing how Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely explore the topic of invisibility in All American Boys.
RL.8.2W.8.1W.8.5W.8.9
Plan, draft, and revise a paragraph response.
RL.8.2W.8.1W.8.1.aW.8.1.bW.8.1.cW.8.5
Explain how the events of this chapter both reveal and change Rashad's perspective.
Analyze how the authors develop Quinn's perspective on civic responsibility in this chapter.
RL.8.2RL.8.3
Determine the technical meaning of words in context and explain the protections and limitations of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Analyze and explain the authors' choices leading up to the climax of All American Boys.
RL.8.2RL.8.6
Describe the structure of All American Boys and explain how it contributes to the text's meaning.
RL.8.5RL.8.6
Determine themes in All American Boys and explain how they are developed over the course of the text.
RL.8.2
Respond to a question with a clear claim and share evidence to support that claim in a Socratic dialogue.
SL.8.1SL.8.1.aSL.8.1.bSL.8.4
Unpack the expectations of a narrative writing task, study a Mentor Text, and brainstorm possible topics.
W.8.3W.8.5
Outline and begin to draft a personal narrative.
W.8.3W.8.3.aW.8.5
Revise narratives for descriptive details, sensory language, and dialogue.
W.8.3W.8.3.bW.8.3.d
Outline and begin to draft a narrative written from a different character's perspective.
Revise both narratives for transition words and edit for verbals.
L.8.1L.8.1.aW.8.3W.8.3.cW.8.5
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