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1. Read the article "Rites of Passage." While reading, complete the assignment and guided reading questions.
2. Once you have finished the reading assignment, watch the videos below about various rites of passages in  different cultures.
3.  Choose ONE rite of passage and compare it to a rite of passage you or someone you know have experienced. SEE THE RUBRIC IN YOUR TABLE FOLDER (and the below attachment). YOUR COMPARISON RESPONSE WILL BE GRADED WITH THIS RUBRIC. WRITE YOUR COMPARISON ESSAY ON THE GOOGLE CLASSROOM DOCUMENT.
4. At the end of the class period, please complete the exit ticket in the last column. Include your name.

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The Giver Rites of Passage Comparison Essay Rubric

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After reading the article and answering the guided reading questions, watch the videos to help you write your comparison essay.

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Watch the video below on the Latin tradition of the Quinceanera.

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Watch the video below on the ritual of the Lakota Sioux Vision Quest.

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Watch the video below on the ceremony of Japanese graduations and entrances.

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Japanese Holidays – School Graduation and Entrance Ceremony - 日本の祝日を学ぼう - 卒業式 - 入学式

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Use this website to help you add transitions to your comparison essay.

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One of your primary goals as a writer is to present ideas in a clear and understandable way. To help readers move through your complex ideas, you want to be intentional about how you structure your paper as a whole as well as how you form the individual paragraphs that comprise it. In order to think through the challenges of presenting your ideas articulately, logically, and in ways that seem natural to your readers, check out some of these resources: Developing a Thesis Statement, Paragraphing, and Developing Strategic Transitions: Writing that Establishes Relationships and Connections Between Ideas.

While clear writing is mostly achieved through the deliberate sequencing of your ideas across your entire paper, you can guide readers through the connections you're making by using transitional words in individual sentences. Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between your ideas and can help your reader understand your paper's logic.

In what follows, we've included a list of frequently used transitional words and phrases that can help you establish how your various ideas relate to each other. We've divided these words and phrases into categories based on the common kinds of relationships writers establish between ideas.

Two recommendations:
Use these transitions strategically by making sure that the word or phrase you're choosing matches the logic of the relationship you're emphasizing or the connection you're making. All of these words and phrases have different meanings, nuances, and connotations, so before using a particular transitional word in your paper, be sure you understand its meaning and usage completely, and be sure that it's the right match for your paper's logic.
Use these transitional words and phrases sparingly because if you use too many of them, your readers might feel like you are overexplaining connections that are already clear.

Transitions to help establish some of the most common kinds of relationships
Causation- Connecting instigator(s) to consequence(s).

Combinations
Lists-Connecting numerous events.Connecting numerous elements that make up something bigger.

finally
first, firstly
further
furthermore
in addition
in the first place
in the second place

Contrast-Connecting two things by focusing on their differences.

as an illustration
e.g., (from a Latin abbreviation for "for example")

to demonstrate
to illustrate

foundationally
most importantly

of less importance
primarily

Location-Connecting elements according to where they are placed in relationship to each other.

by the same token
in like manner

in similar fashion
here
in the same way
Other kinds of transitional words and phrases
Clarification
i.e., (from a Latin abbreviation for "that is")
in other words

to put it another way
to rephrase it

of course
surely
to repeat

undoubtedly
without doubt
yes

for this purpose
in order that

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Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between ideas in your paper and can help your reader understand the logic of your paper. However, these words all have different meanings, nuances, and connotations. Before using a particular transitional word in your paper, be sure you understand its meaning and usage completely and be sure...

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What was something new that you learned? Which rite of passage seemed the most interesting?

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i learned about japanese gradutations and spanish mexican peoples birthday

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I learned about Lakota Sioux Quest and what happened when you went  on the quest.  The Quinceanera big it is like a huge party and you get see your family and friends.

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I never knew that graduating high school was a holiday for the Japanese. I found it interesting that the people in the Lakota Sioux Quest have to go on a journey and meet an animal in their dream.

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I learned that in Spanish cultures you get a big party at 15 years old and they said it is kinda like a wedding.

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i learned that Quinceanera girls celebrate there 15th birthday and welcomes them to woman hood and they celibrate thawnks giving to give thanks to there completed childhood.

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I learned that in Japan, people celebrate graduation more as a ceremony and in the tradition of the Quinceanera, girls celebrate 15 years of age.

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I learned that many Spanish people celebrate their 15th birthday with a big party.

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I learned that in (some)Spanish cultures, girls celebrate their 15th birthday in a wedding-like style.

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i learned that in japan they have a seasonable  for anteing a school

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I learned that in some Spanish cultures, girls celebrate their 15th birthday in a sweet 16 or a wedding like party. This is called a Quinceanera.

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I learned that at age 15, the Japanese throw a big party in a wedding-like style. It is called a Quinceanera.

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I learned that other cultures have important things. It taught me to care more about other peoples cultures and not just mine.

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I learned that all cultures are similiar

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I learned that all cutlures and passages are similar in a way. I also learned that the most significant and celebrated rite of passage is coming of age 

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I learned that all cutlures and passages are similar in a way. I also learned that the most significant and celebrated rite of passage is coming of age 

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I learned that people's life styles are very different, and my favorite video was the Latin tradition one.

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I learned that it is a Latin tradition for 15 year old girls to have a big birthday party called a quinceanera.

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I learned that different cultures have different ways to celebrate going into adulthood.

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i learned that some people come of age before 18

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I learned about the different rites of passage throughout different cultures.

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i learned that people have different ways of stuff.

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I learned that the Japanese people have graduation as a holiday. I think the the Japanese was the most interesting because it is so different from our country.

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I learned that many people do different things to celebrate the coming of age. The rite of passage that interested me most was Coming of Age section.

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I learned that Japanese people celebrate the 15 and 16 birthday party's for kids and I thank the Japanese was the most important because i didn't really know anything about Japanese cultures.

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I learned that when it is a girls 15th  birthday it mostly like any 15 year old girl birthday party all it is to celebrate a new start in to there life and it kind of cool cause i didnt know much about Japanese

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I learned that Japanese people celebrate 16 and 15 birthdays

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I learned that when a girl turns 15 they have a big party into adult hood. It is just like a wedding in a way or a birth day. Its is there way of taking there first step

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Afer watching all the video's my favorite was the Quinceanera because it is so much like a sweet sixteen party. I learned that there were 7 girls and 7 boys with the one person as the 15th.

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the most interesting thing i think is the Lakota Sioux with the Indians i like how the indians was the leaders

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I learned that they have big party's and looks like they all where the same color.

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The Quinceañera seemed the most interesting to me because it resembled marriage. I learned about the order of events in the ceremony like the mass of thanksgiving and the reception as well as the significance it marks in female teens becoming women.

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The Quinceañera seemed the most interesting to me because it resembled marriage. I learned about the order of events in the ceremony like the mass of thanksgiving and the reception as well as the significance it marks in female teens becoming women.

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I thought that the Quinceanera was really interesting because I usually think that at the age 16 is when you really turn into an adult but the Quinceanera is at the age 15 instead.

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The Quinceanera seemed the most interesting and different compared to our rites of passage. They celebrate being 15, when we usually celebrate being 16. They dress up and hold the celebration like wedding.

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I never knew about the vision quests, but my favorite one was the  Quinceanera. It was my favorite because I would love to a  Quinceanera of my own.

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I learned about japenese graduations, spanish birthday parties, and sioux spirt visions.

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Kaylee Spaulding                                                                             It was interesting that graduating high school was a holiday. A Quinceanera is kind of like someones 16th birthday. It was also interesting the on the Lakota Sioux, they went on a quest and found their animal in their dreams.  

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Kaylee Spaulding                                                                             It was interesting that graduating high school was a holiday. A Quinceanera is kind of like someones 16th birthday. It was also interesting the on the Lakota Sioux, they went on a quest and found their animal in their dreams.  

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The Quinceañera is celebrated for 15 year girls. They celebrate because they are getting closer to adult hood.  The Quinceañera seems like the most interesting because there celebrated for early adult hood.

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I learned that the Japanese have a separate holiday for graduation. I thought it was interesting that during a Quinceanera is a coming of age tradition.

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The Quinceanera was the most interesting because we usually celebrate the age of 16 and not 15.

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I learned that Quinceanera is a very important birthday for  mexican girls, because I is a rite of passge to woman hood.

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This Quinceañera thing celebrates the female adulthood.

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The most interesting thing that caught my eye was the Lakota Sioux Vision Quest. I thought this because I never knew about this kind of stuff so I was interested. Like how they do a spiritual ritual.

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One thing I learned about was the Quinceanera. The Quinceanera is a wedding like celebration for when Latin girls turn 15.

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One thing i learned was also about the Quinceanera. I did not know that the girl that is having the party, it's actually like a wedding!

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I learned that Japanese people have a Entrance Ceremony for freshmen.

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I learned that  many people have different cultural and do way different stuff like in the Quincenceanera they have the father put on high hels.

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I learned that lot of different people have lots of the same celibrations along with lots of different celibrations.

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Sydney Curtis                                I found the Quinceanera the most interesting. I learned about it for the first time and found it was the only one that really grabbed my attention.

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Sydney Curtis                                I found the Quinceanera the most interesting. I learned about it for the first time and found it was the only one that really grabbed my attention.

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I found out about the graduation ceremony in Japan.

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I learned that people all have different ways of celebrating and they also have different celebrations all together like the sweet sixteen party and the quincinera

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I learned that the Quinceanera was celebrated when a woman turned 15 and they celebrated the young woman

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I had no idea the parents would send out there kids on there own to relocate there tribe.

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I learned that people celebrate similar events in different ways, Like the Quinceanera is celebrated at 15, When a girl becomes a woman. And in America we do Sweet 16's when we celebrate becoming a adult.

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I learned that at the Quinceanera there is a ceremony where the father or uncle comes out with a fancy pillow and on it a pair of high heels, the father takes off the daughters flat shoes and replaces them with the high heels.

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I learned that the native americans had to relocate there whole tribe

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I learned that a the boys and girls age are different when they get their Bar Mitzvah/Bat Mitzvah.

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I learned that the Lakota Sioux Vision Quest has the kid go out into nature to discover things about themselves.

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I learned that a Quinceanera is like a wedding for fifteen year old that are turning sixteen and it is bigger than a American sweet sixteen.

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A quinceanera is like a sweet sixteen party but not as big.Also,American tradition is to have a sweet sixteen party is telling them that they are going into adult hood.last but not least,when you are 16 you get you license and that is telling them that you can go anywhere you want.In conclusion,Mexican and american traditions are very similar and very different in many ways.

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I learned that Lakota Sioux Vision Quests are when kids go into to nature to learn about themselves.

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I learned the most in the Lakota and it seemed the most interesting.  I learned that you dream of the animal that will take care of you.

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I learned that Japanese graduation from high school to adulthood is very much celebrated. This is a very formal event that requires a suit or uniform.

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l learned that people have did tranditions in life.

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I learned that in some cultures people celebrate things differently than other cultures

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I learned that a Spanish religion tradition  is that when a girl turns 16 she has a Quinceanera .

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I learned that when a Spanish or Latino girl turned 15, she goes through her Quinceanera to be welcomed into adulthood.

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I learned that in Japan they have a Graduation Entrance Ceremony,and the freshmen have a Ceremony with them as well. It was interesting to me because they all celebrate together.

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i learned that people have a lot of different cultures

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i learned that people have a lot of different cultures

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What i learned is that in Latin tradition they celebrate a girls 15th birthday in a special way called a Quinceanera it celebrates. the Lakota Sioux quest is when they have dream about a quest ( some times they will have to cry for a a vision) and they go on the quest and if they succeed the get a spirit helper.

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I learned that different cultures celebrate their rites of passage very different from ours. I think that the most interesting one was the Vision Quest, because it was the most unique.

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I learned about the Japan Graduation and the things they do

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I learned about all of the traditions in different places for going into adulthood.

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I learned that a  Quinceanera is for a young women that is turned 15. As the celabration goes on, she becomes a young woman.

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I learned about Lakota Sioux Quest and what happened on the quest.  I also learned that a Quinceanera is like a huge party where you get to celebrate becoming a young adult.

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I did not know any of this before i watched the videos.But what seemed most interesting to me was the fact that Mexicans celebrate their 15th birthday like a wedding.

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I learned that the tradition of Quinceanera is like the sweet sixteen in america, but is celebrated when their 15 instead of 16. And is more like a wedding without the groom.

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I learned that you can actually control your dreams by putting a picture near you or thinking about it before you go to bed.

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I think that The Native American one is the most interesting, because the the other to are more ordinary, like for example, the one on Japanese graduations, we often do those same things here.