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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
| style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;" colspan="3" | NEWS
|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''Focused Efforts Needed to Halt China's Atrocities'''
China's Communist government must control information coming into the country and, especially, going out of the country. The effect of China's control has been horrific in inhuman ways such as harvesting organs, unlawful imprisonment of Uyghurs in concentration camps, forced erasure of the language and culture of ethnic people. If this new "Evil Empire" is to be confronted and changed, to prevent another NAZI type extermination, funding is necessary. Such a large effort would be needed, the size of the Manhattan Project, to put an end to China's Communist Party (CCP) which would have to involve publicizing the stories of those who have suffered. China's human rights atrocities must be exposed and a revolution of counter-counter-revolutionaries must rise up to attain freedom.
 Source: [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/14/giving-an-uncensored-musical-voice-to-victims-of-t/(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |{{Template:Uyghur_Genocide}}]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Training for the Take over of Taiwan'''
Every time a US official visits Taiwan, China immediately schedules military, especially Air Force, exercises closer and closer to the island. Resulting from the US official Alex Azar's trip to Taiwan, China sent 19 aircraft which flew over the boaundary which separates China from Taiwan.
To top it off, the Chinese newspaper, the Global Times, said in an editorial that every time a U.S. official comes to Taiwan, the aircraft should go closer to Taiwan and if more important U.S. officials come, the aircraft should fly over Taiwan. This, in effect, would be tanatmount to declaring war.
It is clear that China views Taiwan as part of its territory, and it's flexing its muscles to left those views be known.
 Source: [https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1338163/taiwan-invasion-china-military-drills-world-war-3-xi-jinping-pla-usa-donald-trump(Full article...)]
|-valign="top"

| style="width:30%;" |'''Confronting Atrocities in China: The American Response to the Uyghur Crisis'''
The Chinese government’s rampant abuse of the human rights and religious freedoms of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is an urgent issue impacting the broader region. We call on China to end this campaign of repression, and immediately release the approximately 1 million arbitrarily detained in camps. We urge other governments of the region and the world to join us.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Forced Population Control'''
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating a sustained campaign of forced sterilization, forced abortion, and involuntary implantation of birth control. Recent, documented evidence of these practices in Xinjiang is consistent with decades of CCP practices that demonstrate an utter disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human dignity. We call on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately end these horrific practices and ask all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''China's 'Violations of Religious Freedom'''
Among the worst violators of religious freedom in the world, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continues to show blatant disregard for religious freedom and exercises extreme hostility to members of all religious faiths, including Protestants, Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and Falun Gong. The CCP’s campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang continues to escalate. More than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority Muslim groups have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps since April 2017. In practice, the CCP targets everyday expression of Islamic belief such as owning a Quran, praying, avoiding alcohol or tobacco, fasting during Ramadan, as well as secular aspects of non-Chinese culture such as Uyghur language and Uyghur music.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CHINA-INCLUDES-TIBET-XINJIANG-HONG-KONG-AND-MACAU-2019-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''China Flexing its Air Might over Taiwan'''
Numerous fighter jets flew into Taiwan's airspace threatening the Island nation. Such regular patrols are not new for Taiwan for which China states that it is protecting its sovereignty.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry condemned the actions as threatening and damaging to peace and stability. Last month Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-Wen warned that the risk of accidental conflict was increasing because of China's actions in the South China Sea.
China had no immediate comment on the incident.
 Source: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-taiwan-jet-fighters-regional-space-dispute-tsai-ing-wen-b420945.html(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Australian Authorities Search of Chinese Journalists ‘barbaric’ '''

China claims that Australian authorities of “barbaric” searches of the homes of four Chinese journalists.
The journalists are under investigation for trying to influence a New South Wales politician Shaoquett Moselmane on positions relating to China using a WeChat group
Australian authorities interrogated the journalists from Chinese state-run organizations Xinhua, China Media Group, and China News Service, all Chinese state-run media sources.
The Chinese reporters' homes were searched and work computers, phones, and other devices were seized over potential violations of Australian foreign interference laws.
Australia’s foreign affairs department did not comment immediately.
 Source: [https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100785/australia-raided-chinese-journalists-beijing-claims-spat(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''India, Australia, France Meet for Dialogue of Chinese Aggression'''

The foreign secretaries of India, Australia and France met to discuss collaborating on China's aggressive actions. The three sides discussed economic and geostrategic possibilities with a focus in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This meeting resulted from China’s aggressive actions, including the border conflict with India the South China Sea military build-up. The focus of the dialogue was on enhancing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
 Source: [https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covid-19-what-you-need-to-know-today/story-IC02roMQoqgypwribieY5O.html(Full article...)]

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2020-09-15T18:18:54Z

Irvingwash:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
| style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;" colspan="3" | NEWS
|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''Focused Efforts Needed to Halt China's Atrocities'''
China's Communist government must control information coming into the country and, especially, going out of the country. The effect of China's control has been horrific in inhuman ways such as harvesting organs, unlawful imprisonment of Uyghurs in concentration camps, forced erasure of the language and culture of ethnic people. If this new "Evil Empire" is to be confronted and changed, to prevent another NAZI type extermination, funding is necessary. Such a large effort would be needed, the size of the Manhattan Project, to put an end to China's Communist Party (CCP) which would have to involve publicizing the stories of those who have suffered. China's human rights atrocities must be exposed and a revolution of counter-counter-revolutionaries must rise up to attain freedom.
 Source: [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/14/giving-an-uncensored-musical-voice-to-victims-of-t/(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''The Uyghur Genocide'''
Although China professes that its Uyghur population is the “happiest Muslims in the world.”, opposing facts are slowly emerging. NAZI-type imagery of blindfolded captives led onto train cars and stories of genocide are some of the atrocities trickling out of China. Other methods of controlling the Uyghurs have been the usage of systematic forced-sterilization and birth-control programs. Since victims and investigative journalists have been decrying China's treatement of the Uyghur, China has increased its actions against the Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities by increased and technologically advanced surveillance and mass-internments into "facilities". Upon concluding the "reeducation" at such facilities, many are foced into slave labor.
 Source: [https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-uyghur-genocide/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first(Full article...)]
|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''Confronting Atrocities in China: The American Response to the Uyghur Crisis'''
The Chinese government’s rampant abuse of the human rights and religious freedoms of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is an urgent issue impacting the broader region. We call on China to end this campaign of repression, and immediately release the approximately 1 million arbitrarily detained in camps. We urge other governments of the region and the world to join us.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Forced Population Control'''
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating a sustained campaign of forced sterilization, forced abortion, and involuntary implantation of birth control. Recent, documented evidence of these practices in Xinjiang is consistent with decades of CCP practices that demonstrate an utter disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human dignity. We call on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately end these horrific practices and ask all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''China's 'Violations of Religious Freedom'''
Among the worst violators of religious freedom in the world, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continues to show blatant disregard for religious freedom and exercises extreme hostility to members of all religious faiths, including Protestants, Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and Falun Gong. The CCP’s campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang continues to escalate. More than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority Muslim groups have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps since April 2017. In practice, the CCP targets everyday expression of Islamic belief such as owning a Quran, praying, avoiding alcohol or tobacco, fasting during Ramadan, as well as secular aspects of non-Chinese culture such as Uyghur language and Uyghur music.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CHINA-INCLUDES-TIBET-XINJIANG-HONG-KONG-AND-MACAU-2019-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''China Flexing its Air Might over Taiwan'''
Numerous fighter jets flew into Taiwan's airspace threatening the Island nation. Such regular patrols are not new for Taiwan for which China states that it is protecting its sovereignty.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry condemned the actions as threatening and damaging to peace and stability. Last month Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-Wen warned that the risk of accidental conflict was increasing because of China's actions in the South China Sea.
China had no immediate comment on the incident.
 Source: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-taiwan-jet-fighters-regional-space-dispute-tsai-ing-wen-b420945.html(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Australian Authorities Search of Chinese Journalists ‘barbaric’ '''

China claims that Australian authorities of “barbaric” searches of the homes of four Chinese journalists.
The journalists are under investigation for trying to influence a New South Wales politician Shaoquett Moselmane on positions relating to China using a WeChat group
Australian authorities interrogated the journalists from Chinese state-run organizations Xinhua, China Media Group, and China News Service, all Chinese state-run media sources.
The Chinese reporters' homes were searched and work computers, phones, and other devices were seized over potential violations of Australian foreign interference laws.
Australia’s foreign affairs department did not comment immediately.
 Source: [https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100785/australia-raided-chinese-journalists-beijing-claims-spat(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''India, Australia, France Meet for Dialogue of Chinese Aggression'''

The foreign secretaries of India, Australia and France met to discuss collaborating on China's aggressive actions. The three sides discussed economic and geostrategic possibilities with a focus in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This meeting resulted from China’s aggressive actions, including the border conflict with India the South China Sea military build-up. The focus of the dialogue was on enhancing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
 Source: [https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covid-19-what-you-need-to-know-today/story-IC02roMQoqgypwribieY5O.html(Full article...)]

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2020-09-13T06:46:25Z

Irvingwash:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
| style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;" colspan="3" | NEWS
|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''Confronting Atrocities in China: The Global Response to the Uyghur Crisis'''
The Chinese government’s rampant abuse of the human rights and religious freedoms of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is an urgent issue impacting the broader region. We call on China to end this campaign of repression, and immediately release the approximately 1 million arbitrarily detained in camps. We urge other governments of the region and the world to join us.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Forced Population Control'''
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating a sustained campaign of forced sterilization, forced abortion, and involuntary implantation of birth control. Recent, documented evidence of these practices in Xinjiang is consistent with decades of CCP practices that demonstrate an utter disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human dignity. We call on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately end these horrific practices and ask all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''China's 'Violations of Religious Freedom'''
Among the worst violators of religious freedom in the world, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continues to show blatant disregard for religious freedom and exercises extreme hostility to members of all religious faiths, including Protestants, Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and Falun Gong. The CCP’s campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang continues to escalate. More than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority Muslim groups have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps since April 2017. In practice, the CCP targets everyday expression of Islamic belief such as owning a Quran, praying, avoiding alcohol or tobacco, fasting during Ramadan, as well as secular aspects of non-Chinese culture such as Uyghur language and Uyghur music.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CHINA-INCLUDES-TIBET-XINJIANG-HONG-KONG-AND-MACAU-2019-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''China Flexing its Air Might over Taiwan'''
Numerous fighter jets flew into Taiwan's airspace threatening the Island nation. Such regular patrols are not new for Taiwan for which China states that it is protecting its sovereignty.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry condemned the actions as threatening and damaging to peace and stability. Last month Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-Wen warned that the risk of accidental conflict was increasing because of China's actions in the South China Sea.
China had no immediate comment on the incident.
 Source: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-taiwan-jet-fighters-regional-space-dispute-tsai-ing-wen-b420945.html(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Australian Authorities Search of Chinese Journalists ‘barbaric’ '''

China claims that Australian authorities of “barbaric” searches of the homes of four Chinese journalists.
The journalists are under investigation for trying to influence a New South Wales politician Shaoquett Moselmane on positions relating to China using a WeChat group
Australian authorities interrogated the journalists from Chinese state-run organizations Xinhua, China Media Group, and China News Service, all Chinese state-run media sources.
The Chinese reporters' homes were searched and work computers, phones, and other devices were seized over potential violations of Australian foreign interference laws.
Australia’s foreign affairs department did not comment immediately.
 Source: [https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100785/australia-raided-chinese-journalists-beijing-claims-spat(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''India, Australia, France Meet for Dialogue of Chinese Aggression'''

The foreign secretaries of India, Australia and France met to discuss collaborating on China's aggressive actions. The three sides discussed economic and geostrategic possibilities with a focus in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This meeting resulted from China’s aggressive actions, including the border conflict with India the South China Sea military build-up. The focus of the dialogue was on enhancing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
 Source: [https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covid-19-what-you-need-to-know-today/story-IC02roMQoqgypwribieY5O.html(Full article...)]

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2020-09-13T06:44:16Z

Irvingwash:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
| style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;" colspan="3" | NEWS
|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''Confronting Atrocities in China: The Global Response to the Uyghur Crisis'''
The Chinese government’s rampant abuse of the human rights and religious freedoms of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is an urgent issue impacting the broader region. We call on China to end this campaign of repression, and immediately release the approximately 1 million arbitrarily detained in camps. We urge other governments of the region and the world to join us.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Forced Population Control'''
The CCP is perpetrating a sustained campaign of forced sterilization, forced abortion, and involuntary implantation of birth control. Recent, documented evidence of these practices in Xinjiang is consistent with decades of CCP practices that demonstrate an utter disregard for the sanctity of human life and basic human dignity. We call on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately end these horrific practices and ask all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CHINA-INCLUSIVE-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''China's 'Violations of Religious Freedom'''
The CCP is among the worst violators of religious freedom in the world and it continues to show blatant disregard for religious freedom and exercises extreme hostility to members of all religious faiths, including Protestants, Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and Falun Gong. The CCP’s campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang continues to escalate. More than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other minority Muslim groups have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps since April 2017. In practice, the CCP targets everyday expression of Islamic belief such as owning a Quran, praying, avoiding alcohol or tobacco, fasting during Ramadan, as well as secular aspects of non-Chinese culture such as Uyghur language and Uyghur music.
 Source: [https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CHINA-INCLUDES-TIBET-XINJIANG-HONG-KONG-AND-MACAU-2019-INTERNATIONAL-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM-REPORT.pdf(Full article...)]

|-valign="top"
| style="width:30%;" |'''China Flexing its Air Might over Taiwan'''
Numerous fighter jets flew into Taiwan's airspace threatening the Island nation. Such regular patrols are not new for Taiwan for which China states that it is protecting its sovereignty.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry condemned the actions as threatening and damaging to peace and stability. Last month Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-Wen warned that the risk of accidental conflict was increasing because of China's actions in the South China Sea.
China had no immediate comment on the incident.
 Source: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-taiwan-jet-fighters-regional-space-dispute-tsai-ing-wen-b420945.html(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''Australian Authorities Search of Chinese Journalists ‘barbaric’ '''

China claims that Australian authorities of “barbaric” searches of the homes of four Chinese journalists.
The journalists are under investigation for trying to influence a New South Wales politician Shaoquett Moselmane on positions relating to China using a WeChat group
Australian authorities interrogated the journalists from Chinese state-run organizations Xinhua, China Media Group, and China News Service, all Chinese state-run media sources.
The Chinese reporters' homes were searched and work computers, phones, and other devices were seized over potential violations of Australian foreign interference laws.
Australia’s foreign affairs department did not comment immediately.
 Source: [https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100785/australia-raided-chinese-journalists-beijing-claims-spat(Full article...)]

| style="width:30%;" |'''India, Australia, France Meet for Dialogue of Chinese Aggression'''

The foreign secretaries of India, Australia and France met to discuss collaborating on China's aggressive actions. The three sides discussed economic and geostrategic possibilities with a focus in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This meeting resulted from China’s aggressive actions, including the border conflict with India the South China Sea military build-up. The focus of the dialogue was on enhancing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
 Source: [https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covid-19-what-you-need-to-know-today/story-IC02roMQoqgypwribieY5O.html(Full article...)]

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2020-09-12T01:22:44Z

Irvingwash:

2020-07-27T03:16:33Z

Irvingwash:

NYSCCEssayStructure

2020-07-26T19:31:51Z

Irvingwash:

'''NYS Common Core Writing Structures'''

NYS tests students' reading and writing ability by having them write paragraphs and essays otherwise known as "short answer response" and "extended response."

Both use a simple acronym for the students to remember how to write each type in a way that will allow the students to receive full score on the Statewide exams.

This acronym is '''R-A-C-E-''' which breaks down to the following:

'''R- Restate the question =''' This means that the student must restate the questions so that in a short answer response question, the restating of the question becomes a topic sentence.

An example would be, if the question is asking, " Based on the story and your knowledge of American traditions, how is our Thanksgiving different from the thanksgiving in the story?"
The topic sentence or restatement would be:
Without the answer- "Our Thanksgiving is different from the thanksgiving in the story for many reasons."
With the answer - "Our Thanksgiving is different from the thanksgiving in the story because the thanksgiving in the story does not have a Europeans, any reference to God, and it is not a group of people, but just a family."

'''A- Answer the Question''' - As in the above example, you can either add the answer to the topic sentence or write it separately after the topic sentence as such,
" The focus of the thanksgiving in the story is about a Native American family having a thanksgiving meal after a long growing season."

'''C - Cite the text evidence''' - For this sentence the students must copy the exact phrase, word for word from the passage they read to show the test checkers that they know exactly where the "Prove-it-Phrase" to the answer comes from. This falls under a relatively new type of question called "Command of Evidence" question. In most writing, this might fall under the category of copying, plagiarism, or not being creative, but that's what the tests require now: finding and writing the exact phrase from the passage.

The student should start with one of the transitional phrases below for the first piece of evidence:

According to the story, " ~"
The text states, " ~"
In the story, the author writes, " ~"

For the second evidence, the students should use a slight variation of the above phrases:
Also, the text states, " ~"
The text also states,, " ~"

'''E- Explain the cited text'''- In this sentence students are able to now show if they really understand what the writer of the passage meant.

-----------

For the different type of writings, one evidence paragraph, multi evidence paragraph, and essays, students use different variations of the R-A-C-E- method.

'''one evidence paragraph''' uses - R-A-C-E

'''two evidence paragraph''' uses - R-A-C-E-A-C-E

'''1 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

'''2 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph1 ) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 2) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

'''3 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph1 ) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 2) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 3) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

NYSCCEssayStructure

2020-07-26T19:09:03Z

Irvingwash:

'''NYS Common Core Essay Structures'''

NYS tests students' reading and writing ability by having them write paragraphs and essays otherwise known as "short answer response" and "extended response."

Both use a simple acronym for the students to remember how to write each type in a way that will allow the students to receive full score on the Statewide exams.

This acronym is '''R-A-C-E-''' which breaks down to the following:

'''R- Restate the question =''' This means that the student must restate the questions so that in a short answer response question, the restating of the question becomes a topic sentence.

An example would be, if the question is asking, " Based on the story and your knowledge of American traditions, how is our Thanksgiving different from the thanksgiving in the story?"
The topic sentence or restatement would be:
Without the answer- "Our Thanksgiving is different from the thanksgiving in the story for many reasons."
With the answer - "Our Thanksgiving is different from the thanksgiving in the story because the thanksgiving in the story does not have a Europeans, any reference to God, and it is not a group of people, but just a family."

'''A- Answer the Question''' - As in the above example, you can either add the answer to the topic sentence or write it separately after the topic sentence as such,
" The focus of the thanksgiving in the story is about a Native American family having a thanksgiving meal after a long growing season."

'''C - Cite the text evidence''' - For this sentence the students must copy the exact phrase, word for word from the passage they read to show the test checkers that they know exactly where the "Prove-it-Phrase" to the answer comes from. This falls under a relatively new type of question called "Command of Evidence" question. In most writing, this might fall under the category of copying, plagiarism, or not being creative, but that's what the tests require now: finding and writing the exact phrase from the passage.

The student should start with one of the transitional phrases below for the first piece of evidence:

According to the story, " ~"
The text states, " ~"
In the story, the author writes, " ~"

For the second evidence, the students should use a slight variation of the above phrases:
Also, the text states, " ~"
The text also states,, " ~"

'''E- Explain the cited text'''- In this sentence students are able to now show if they really understand what the writer of the passage meant.

-----------

For the different type of writings, one evidence paragraph, multi evidence paragraph, and essays, students use different variations of the R-A-C-E- method.

'''one evidence paragraph''' uses - R-A-C-E

'''two evidence paragraph''' uses - R-A-C-E-A-C-E

'''1 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

'''2 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph1 ) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 2) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

'''3 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph1 ) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 2) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 3) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

NYSCCEssayStructure

2020-07-26T19:07:17Z

Irvingwash: Created page with "'''NYS Common Core Essay Structures''' NYS tests students' reading and writing ability by having them write paragraphs and essays otherwise known as "short answer response" a..."

'''NYS Common Core Essay Structures'''

NYS tests students' reading and writing ability by having them write paragraphs and essays otherwise known as "short answer response" and "extended response."

Both use a simple acronym for the students to remember how to write each type in a way that will allow the students to receive full score on the Statewide exams.

This acronym is '''R-A-C-E-''' which breaks down to the following:

R- Restate the question = This means that the student must restate the questions so that in a short answer response question, the restating of the question becomes a topic sentence.

An example would be, if the question is asking, " Based on the story and your knowledge of American traditions, how is our Thanksgiving different from the thanksgiving in the story?"
The topic sentence or restatement would be:
Without the answer- "Our Thanksgiving is different from the thanksgiving in the story for many reasons."
With the answer - "Our Thanksgiving is different from the thanksgiving in the story because the thanksgiving in the story does not have a Europeans, any reference to God, and it is not a group of people, but just a family."

A- Answer the Question - As in the above example, you can either add the answer to the topic sentence or write it separately after the topic sentence as such,
" The focus of the thanksgiving in the story is about a Native American family having a thanksgiving meal after a long growing season."

C - Cite the text evidence - For this sentence the students must copy the exact phrase, word for word from the passage they read to show the test checkers that they know exactly where the "Prove-it-Phrase" to the answer comes from. This falls under a relatively new type of question called "Command of Evidence" question. In most writing, this might fall under the category of copying, plagiarism, or not being creative, but that's what the tests require now: finding and writing the exact phrase from the passage.

The student should start with one of the transitional phrases below for the first piece of evidence:

According to the story, " ~"
The text states, " ~"
In the story, the author writes, " ~"

For the second evidence, the students should use a slight variation of the above phrases:
Also, the text states, " ~"
The text also states,, " ~"

E- Explain the cited text- In this sentence students are able to now show if they really understand what the writer of the passage meant.

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For the different type of writings, one evidence paragraph, multi evidence paragraph, and essays, students use different variations of the R-A-C-E- method.

'''one evidence paragraph''' uses - R-A-C-E

'''two evidence paragraph''' uses - R-A-C-E-A-C-E

'''1 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

'''2 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph1 ) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 2) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

'''3 body paragraph essay:''' (intro) R-A-A (Body paragraph1 ) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 2) R-A-C-E- (Body paragraph 3) R-A-C-E- (conclusion) R-A-A

Writing Topic 3-4

2020-07-21T18:38:06Z

Irvingwash:

<h4>Hello Students, read the below article then on your own webpage on www.goodtoknow.com, write a short constructed response using "R-A-A R-A-C-E-A-C-E R-A-A'''" as instructed in class.</h4>
 
'''According to the story, how was the monkey able to free himself from his unlawful sentence ?'''
'''Use two details from the passage to support your response.''' '''USE: (P1)R-A-A (P2)R-A-C-E-A-C-E (P3)R-A-A'''

 '''<h4>THE MONKEY'S FIDDLE</h4>'''

Hunger and want forced Monkey one day to forsake his land and to seek elsewhere among strangers for much-needed work. Bulbs, earth beans, scorpions, insects, and such things were completely exhausted in his own land. But fortunately, he received, for the time being, shelter with a great uncle of his, Orang Outang, who lived in another part of the country.

When he had worked for quite a while he wanted to return home, and as recompense, his great uncle gave him a fiddle and a bow and arrow and told him that with the bow and arrow he could hit anything he desired, and with the fiddle, he could force anything to dance.

The first he met upon his return to his own land was Brer Wolf. This old fellow told him all the news and also that he had since early morning been attempting to stalk a deer, but all in vain.

Then Monkey laid before him all the wonders of the bow and arrow that he carried on his back and assured him if he could but see the deer he would bring it down for him. When Wolf showed him the deer, Monkey was ready and down fell the deer.

They made a good meal together, but instead of Wolf being thankful, jealousy overmastered him and he begged for the bow and arrow. When Monkey refused to give it to him, he thereupon began to threaten him with his greater strength, and so when Jackal passed by, Wolf told him that Monkey had stolen his bow and arrow. After Jackal had heard both of them, he declared himself unqualified to settle the case alone, and he proposed that they bring the matter to the court of Lion, Tiger, and the other animals. In the meantime, he declared he would take possession of what had been the cause of their quarrel, so that it would be safe, as he said. But he immediately brought to earth all that was eatable, so there was a long time of slaughter before Monkey and Wolf agreed to have the affair in court.

Monkey's evidence was weak, and to make it worse, Jackal's testimony was against him. Jackal thought that in this way it would be easier to obtain the bow and arrow from Wolf for himself.

And so fell the sentence against Monkey. Theft was looked upon as a great wrong; he must be imprisoned.

The fiddle was still at his side, and he received as a last favor from the court the right to play a tune on it.

He was a master player of his time, and in addition to this came the wonderful power of his charmed fiddle. Thus, when he struck the first note of "Cockcrow" upon it, the court began at once to show an unusual and spontaneous liveliness, and before he came to the first waltzing turn of the old tune the whole court was dancing like a whirlwind.

Over and over, quicker and quicker, sounded the tune of "Cockcrow" on the charmed fiddle, until some of the dancers, exhausted, fell down, although still keeping their feet in motion. But Monkey, musician as he was, heard and saw nothing of what had happened around him. With his head placed lovingly against the instrument, and his eyes half-closed, he played on, keeping time ever with his foot.

Wolf was the first to cry out in pleading tones breathlessly, "Please stop, Cousin Monkey! For love's sake, please stop!"

But Monkey did not even hear him. Over and over sounded the resistless waltz of "Cockcrow."

After a while, Lion showed signs of fatigue, and when he had gone the round once more with his young lion wife, he growled as he passed Monkey, "My whole kingdom is yours, ape, if you just stop playing."

"I do not want it," answered Monkey, "but withdraw the sentence and give me my bow and arrow, and you, Wolf, acknowledge that you stole it from me."

"I acknowledge, I acknowledge!" cried Wolf, while Lion cried, at the same instant, that he withdrew the sentence.

Monkey gave them just a few more turns of the "Cockcrow," gathered up his bow and arrow, and seated himself high up in the nearest camel thorn tree.

The court and other animals were so afraid that he might begin again that they hastily disbanded to new parts of the world

Writing Topic 3-4

2020-07-21T18:37:46Z

Irvingwash:

<h4>Hello Students, read the below article then on your own webpage on www.goodtoknow.com, write a short constructed response using "R-A-A R-A-C-E-A-C-E R-A-A'''" as instructed in class.</h4>
 
'''According to the story, what how was the monkey able to free himself from his unlawful sentence ?'''
'''Use two details from the passage to support your response.''' '''USE: (P1)R-A-A (P2)R-A-C-E-A-C-E (P3)R-A-A'''

 '''<h4>THE MONKEY'S FIDDLE</h4>'''

Hunger and want forced Monkey one day to forsake his land and to seek elsewhere among strangers for much-needed work. Bulbs, earth beans, scorpions, insects, and such things were completely exhausted in his own land. But fortunately, he received, for the time being, shelter with a great uncle of his, Orang Outang, who lived in another part of the country.

When he had worked for quite a while he wanted to return home, and as recompense, his great uncle gave him a fiddle and a bow and arrow and told him that with the bow and arrow he could hit anything he desired, and with the fiddle, he could force anything to dance.

The first he met upon his return to his own land was Brer Wolf. This old fellow told him all the news and also that he had since early morning been attempting to stalk a deer, but all in vain.

Then Monkey laid before him all the wonders of the bow and arrow that he carried on his back and assured him if he could but see the deer he would bring it down for him. When Wolf showed him the deer, Monkey was ready and down fell the deer.

They made a good meal together, but instead of Wolf being thankful, jealousy overmastered him and he begged for the bow and arrow. When Monkey refused to give it to him, he thereupon began to threaten him with his greater strength, and so when Jackal passed by, Wolf told him that Monkey had stolen his bow and arrow. After Jackal had heard both of them, he declared himself unqualified to settle the case alone, and he proposed that they bring the matter to the court of Lion, Tiger, and the other animals. In the meantime, he declared he would take possession of what had been the cause of their quarrel, so that it would be safe, as he said. But he immediately brought to earth all that was eatable, so there was a long time of slaughter before Monkey and Wolf agreed to have the affair in court.

Monkey's evidence was weak, and to make it worse, Jackal's testimony was against him. Jackal thought that in this way it would be easier to obtain the bow and arrow from Wolf for himself.

And so fell the sentence against Monkey. Theft was looked upon as a great wrong; he must be imprisoned.

The fiddle was still at his side, and he received as a last favor from the court the right to play a tune on it.

He was a master player of his time, and in addition to this came the wonderful power of his charmed fiddle. Thus, when he struck the first note of "Cockcrow" upon it, the court began at once to show an unusual and spontaneous liveliness, and before he came to the first waltzing turn of the old tune the whole court was dancing like a whirlwind.

Over and over, quicker and quicker, sounded the tune of "Cockcrow" on the charmed fiddle, until some of the dancers, exhausted, fell down, although still keeping their feet in motion. But Monkey, musician as he was, heard and saw nothing of what had happened around him. With his head placed lovingly against the instrument, and his eyes half-closed, he played on, keeping time ever with his foot.

Wolf was the first to cry out in pleading tones breathlessly, "Please stop, Cousin Monkey! For love's sake, please stop!"

But Monkey did not even hear him. Over and over sounded the resistless waltz of "Cockcrow."

After a while, Lion showed signs of fatigue, and when he had gone the round once more with his young lion wife, he growled as he passed Monkey, "My whole kingdom is yours, ape, if you just stop playing."

"I do not want it," answered Monkey, "but withdraw the sentence and give me my bow and arrow, and you, Wolf, acknowledge that you stole it from me."

"I acknowledge, I acknowledge!" cried Wolf, while Lion cried, at the same instant, that he withdrew the sentence.

Monkey gave them just a few more turns of the "Cockcrow," gathered up his bow and arrow, and seated himself high up in the nearest camel thorn tree.

The court and other animals were so afraid that he might begin again that they hastily disbanded to new parts of the world