The Kingdom and The Keys: Gamified Language Arts

Close Reading Station

This is where you will access the work for your Close-Reading station until we get Newsela logins for everyone.
This page contains roughly 45 minutes of Close-Reading content.
Each Week I will assign three new articles with related videos.

Newsela

Close Reading Station Week 4

Newsela Class Code: YB94EM

After viewing the videos at each station, read the Newsela Article associated with that video. Once we all have our Newsela logins you will also answer 4 questions for each Newsela Article and write a short (4-6 sentence) response. 

Close Reading - 1st Station

If you are tired of 9/11 videos at this point, watch this one. 

This is my favorite 9/11 video (if that is the right word). 

Some kids near Brooklyn, NYC are watching the smoke from behind a fence, and they see white shapes floating. 

These are business papers from inside the towers getting caught in the wind. 
Random excel sheets. Somebody's day to day number crunching from some, unnamed, cubicle. 
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I like it, because without violence and explosions you see someone's worksheets. 
A person put the words on each of those papers. Someone's brother, sister, mom or dad, son or daughter made those sheets, copied them while bored one day, checking their watch and talking in the copy room. 
Warning: This one does have some intense and likely disturbing imagery from the day. 

This is a long video (28 min) but if you want to understand why people who lived through the event (my generation, I was in 8th Grade at the time) this is a great example of how stunned we all were.

Again, long video, so use your time wisely, there is a Key Project due this Friday (the 2nd). 
After Viewing the short video on the aftermath of the 9/11 Terror Attacks, read the Newsela article linked in the button below and answer the 4 questions for credit. 
Login using a Google login or create a new login.
The Class code is YB94EM
Article 1

Close Reading - 2nd Station

After Viewing the short video on how hurricanes are formed, read the Newsela article linked in the button below and answer the 4 questions for credit. 
Login using a Google login or create a new login.
The Class code is YB94EM
Article 2

Close Reading - 3rd Station

After Viewing the short video on Stephen Curry (who, as I understand, is quite good at Sportsball), read the Newsela article linked in the button below and answer the 4 questions for credit. ​
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The Class code is YB94EM
Article 3
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