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Pathway to Freedom: Well-Written Paragraph

This is the rubric for how well-written your paragraph is.

Attempt is missing or barely started.Paragraph is disorganized and/or grammar inhibits a reader from understanding.Paragraph is somewhat organized and/or grammar detracts from the reader’s understanding.Paragraph is clearly organized and grammar does not restrict the reader’s understanding.
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Understanding the Pathway to Freedom

In this chapter, Douglass wrote “I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”

What was the pathway that he now understood? Explain the pathway and how it guaranteed freedom using three quotes from Frederick Douglass’ autobiography.

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Children and Slavery – Graphic Organizer

Complete this graphic organizer with 8 facts. Use it to organize the information Frederick Douglass provides to show how children are affected by slavery.

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Rubric for Graphic Organizer

This rubric is for how fully you completed the graphic organizer about children in slavery. It should be complete with 8 facts total.

Graphic organizer is mostly blank.The graphic organizer has less than 4 facts from the text. The graphic organizer has 4-7 facts from the text The organizer is complete with 8 pieces of information gathered from the text.
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Full Books with projects, questions and answer keys

Reading companions with projects, questions and answer keys for books you love to read

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Questions – Main Idea

We ask a multiple-choice, main-idea question almost every chapter. This way students see strong summaries and better understand the main idea/plot events. This helps students gain skills in summarizing and reading for understanding. If children are lost, they will receive guidance through the Feedback page.

Questions – Important Details

Most questions will ask about critical details in the story. We choose these questions to highlight key pieces of information needed later in the text, and to help students adjust to citing texts to defend their answers (see next section).

Questions – Supporting Evidence

It’s important that students learn how to cite text and summarize evidence. These questions is where this system shines. Our online scoring engine checks student evidence immediately, and our printed books include keys with the evidence as well. These questions help children investigate the text, better understand the structure of the text they just read, and become better prepared for tests that require students to cite evidence for their Reading responses.

Questions – Vocabulary

These questions identify the most important words in your text–words that will help students understand a variety of texts. These questions will have options that could make sense grammatically in the sentence to ensure children learn how to find meaning for words given context clues and surrounding texts.

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Another exciting edMe Week!

After a weekend with our new 4-H friends, we are happy to be back in the store! This weekend was a blast We judged STEM exhibits, displayed our boat-making skills, and showed off ASNE’s FLEET naval engineering video game. We found that boat making even tied together generations of 4-H families!

Our playdough circuits are a fun hands-on activity explained in Electricity is Elementary

This week, we are rolling out a new Windmill STEM adventure and reaching out to our local schools and after-school groups. Hard to believe that it’s already Back-to-School season!

A special thanks to all the Fairfax County groups that came out to support the 4-H Festival. It truly exemplifies that Fairfax is STEM.

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Rubric: Desert Paragraph – Two Adaptations

This rubric is for how many desert species adaptations you included in your paragraph about the challenges of the desert.

Attempt is missing or barely started.Paragraph does not explain any adaptations of desert wildlife.Paragraph explains one adaptation of desert wildlife.Paragraph explains two adaptations of desert wildlife.
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Rubric: Desert Paragraph – Well Written

This is the rubric for how well-written your paragraph is.

Attempt is missing or barely started.Paragraph is disorganized and/or grammar inhibits a reader from understanding.Paragraph is somewhat organized and/or grammar detracts from the reader’s understanding.Paragraph is clearly organized and grammar does not restrict the reader’s understanding.
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Biomes: Desert

National Geographic’s Video describes the desert biome.

Write a paragraph that describes one challenge about living in this environment. Include two ways species have adapted to this environment. 

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Rubric: Raccoon Paragraph – 3 Facts from Video

This rubric is for using three facts from the PBS video in your paragraph about chipmunks.

Paragraph is missing or barely started.Facts are not included in the paragraph. Only one fact from the video is used. Only two facts from the video are used.Three or more facts from the video are used.
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