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Use HowManySyllables.com to research each of the ten spelling words

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Notes: Please include an appropriate/professional username and password. I ask you to restrict this new e-mail address to only school related work until the end of the class year. Once you have completed the class, your professional e-mail address is yours to keep.
Why Gmail? We will be using Google Docs frequently to exchange material. This also allows you to keep your assignments and work on them from without having to constantly email them to yourself.

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A single username and password gets you into everything Google (Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, Google Maps). Set up your profile and preferences just the way you like. Switch between devices, and pick up wherever you left off.

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Distribute CASAS Tests to returning students.
Warmup: Crumpled Reminder
Watching Film: "Growing Your Mind" and "Neuroplasticity"
Mindset Reading and Writing Prep
Discussion: The Truth About Ability and Accomplishment

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Crumpled Reminder: The Power of Mistakes

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Crumpled Reminder: The Power of Mistakes

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On a lined piece of paper, write about a mistake you made this week. What feelings did you experience?

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Composition Practice: Finding Sentences and Expressing Ideas
Bridge Syllabus: Read-through
CASAS Prep: Graphs
--Break--
Computer Savviness: Create Professional/Educational E-mail Address
Mindset Graphic Organizer
Discussion: Ability and Accomplishment
Paragraph Writing

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Username: adulted
Password: @dultEd1

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In a paragraph, explain the differences between fixed and growth mindsets. In your essay, answer the following:

·      What is a fixed mindset? What is a growth mindset?

·      Which is the most beneficial? Why?

Make sure to answer these questions within your paragraph and not individually.

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We will read pages 57 to 67 of Carol Dweck’s Mindset. Use two different highlighters or pens to underline the characteristics of having a “fixed” mindset and of a “growth” mindset.

Then use the “Writing Prep” organizer below to help you organize your thoughts.

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Discussion: The Truth About Ability and Accomplishment

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Discussion: The Truth About Ability and Accomplishment

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Discuss these questions with your partner

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Composition Warmup: Activities 3 & 4
Vocabulary / Spelling Words
Summary Writing Presentation
Read: Working the Night Shift
Complete (20-21)
Write a Summary

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http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Summary

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Make sure that you have completed your reading of "The Night Shift." It should be annotated, and ready for you to write a summary on Thursday at 9:00am. You will only have 30 minutes to complete the summary, so make sure to arrive on time. (Coffee will be waiting for you).
Finally, complete the vocabulary practice on pages 20-21 of "Night Shift." This will prepare you for the spelling test on Thursday.
See you then!

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Transition Words - Supplemental Resource

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Transition Words - Supplemental Resource

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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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With a partner, you will have 30 minutes to write a summary of the night shift. Be sure to follow the tips from Tuesday's lecture on summarizing.

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After reading quote the history of shiftwork quote, choose 5 of the most important sentences in the essay. Then using your own words, restate the sentences. Highlights two sentences of each body paragraph. Then, on another piece of paper, rewrite each pair of sentences in your own

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Create Gmail
Summary Writing: The Night Shift
Spelling Test
CASAS Practice: Literature
Composition: Transition Word Practice
Paraphrasing Activity
Is Working at Night Bad for You?

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Please read and annotate "Is Working at Night Bad for You." You will be asked to summarize the article on Tuesday, so please be prepared. My suggestion: Review your lecture notes from Tuesday on summary. You can find it just above. Any questions? Feel free to text me through Remind.

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Composition: Plot
Summary Writing: BBC Article
Detective Fiction Introduction
Reading: "Death Arrives on Schedule"

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By yourself, write a summary of the BBC article. Closely follow your tips from lecture on Tuesday, and include at least three transitions. Make sure to write your summary on Google Docs, that way you can finish at home if need be.

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Paraphrasing Activity: In-Class Triad Activity

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Paraphrasing Activity: In-Class Triad Activity

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CASAS Practice: Nutrition
Spelling and Vocab
Paraphrasing Activity
Death Arrives on Schedule

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- Paraphrasing means putting what you have read into your own words.
- You paraphrase by reading something, thinking about what it means, and then restating it in your own words.

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Using the footers of your reading, write the definition of each spelling word. Then, create a sentence for 6 spelling words.
Teacher's challenge: Connect the 6 sentences as a single story
Spelling Words for “Death Arrives on Schedule”

1.       aggressive

2.       inclination

3.       barrier

4.       favorable

5.       secrecy

6.       inconvenience

7.       elderly

8.       originate

9.       irritated

10.   retrieve

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Answers to Transitional Words and Phrases

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Answers to Transitional Words and Phrases

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Click the photo, all three pages are included.

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Thursday, September 7, 2017 *** Agenda ***

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Thursday, September 7, 2017 *** Agenda ***

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Vocab Practice
Spelling Test
CASAS Practice
Composition Practice: Pronouns
Multiple Intelligence Test
Explanation Paragraph
Graphic Organizer
Writing the Explanation Paragraph

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Online Assessment for Multiple Intelligences

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Online Assessment for Multiple Intelligences

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This form can help you determine which intelligences are strongest for you. If you're a teacher or tutor, you can also use it to find out which intelligences your learner uses most often. Many thanks to Dr. Terry Armstrong for graciously allowing us to use his questionnaire.

Instructions: Read each statement carefully. Choose one of the five buttons for each statement indicating how well that statement describes you.

1 = Statement does not describe you at all
2 = Statement describes you very little
3 = Statement describes you somewhat
4 = Statement describes you pretty well
5 = Statement describes you exactly

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This form can help you determine which intelligences are strongest for you. If you're a teacher or tutor, you can also use it to find out which intelligences your learner uses most often. Many thanks to Dr. Terry Armstrong for graciously allowing us to use his questionnaire. Instructions: Read each statement carefully.

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Spelling Test for School is for All Learners

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Spelling Test for School is for All Learners

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1. basics
2. impatient
3. eager
4. overwhelmed
5. familiar
6. peered
7. hesitantly
8. recall
9. kindergarten
10. route

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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 ***Agenda***

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CASAS Practice: Reading Court Summons
Turning Point Fiction
"Marriage is a Private Affair"
---Reading
---Comprehension
---Writing
No Spelling Test this week.

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Please answer all questions on a separate piece of paper

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Write one paragraph about a turning point in your life. What happened? Why is this memory so important?

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Bridge Class, come join us Friday, September, 15, 2017.

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Transition to College and Career Flyer CORRECT DATE

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Thursday, September 14, 2017: Mastering the Summary/Explanation Paragraph ***Agenda*** 

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Thursday, September 14, 2017: Mastering the Summary/Explanation Paragraph ***Agenda*** 

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Music as Literature "Alexander Hamilton: An American Musical"
Revisiting the Explanation/Summary Paragraph
Class Paragraph
Summary and Main Idea Practice
Summary Paragraph Assignment

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Summarizing the Childhood of Alexander Hamilton

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Summarizing the Childhood of Alexander Hamilton

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Highlight each event you can find.
We will use this to compose a class paragraph

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"Hamilton" Performed at the White House: Summary Exercise

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"Hamilton" Performed at the White House: Summary Exercise

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While listening, read and annotate along with lyrics sheet below. Highlight each event you can find. We will use this to compose a class paragraph

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Hamilton cast performs "Alexander Hamilton" at White House

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Summary (Homework Due Tuesday September 19) 

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Summary (Homework Due Tuesday September 19) 

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Write a one page summary of "Marriage is a Private Affair." Use at least 5 "time" translation words/phrases. Underline them. You must include a topic sentence and a concluding sentence.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Warmup: Thinking About Community
Reading "North Adams, Here We Come"
---Comprehension Questions
Vocab Practice
Writing a Personal Narrative

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Spelling Words for “Making a Comeback- North Adams, Here We Come”

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Thursday, September 21, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Thursday, September 21, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Warm-up: Composition
CASAS Practice: Finding a job
Vocab Practice
Spelling Test
Personal Narrative writing

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Complete the graphic organizer
Write a draft of your paragraph
Revise it. (check for topic sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence)
Edit it for grammar mistakes
Email it to me at KevBelcher811@g.ucla.edu

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017 ***Agenda***

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Composition Warmup
CASAS Practice: Automobiles
Reading "Nervous Conditions"
Answering Comprehension Questions
Spelling Word Diagnosis

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"The Question Posed By My Cat"

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TEDxHarare - Tsitsi Dangarembga - The question Posed by My Cat

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Novelist, filmmaker and playwright, Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Nervous Conditions. Nervous Conditions is the first book published by an African woman in English. It was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her novels gave a voice to the black women of Zimbabwe.

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Questions for "The Question Posed By My Cat"

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Questions for "The Question Posed By My Cat"

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1.     Finish this sentence (1:45): Dangarembga states that lesson (answer) #1 from her cat is that “no matter how much there is, _________________________________________”

2.     Finish this sentence (7:20): “We cannot have enough because _____________________________________________________”

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1.     Charitable

2.     Maximum

3.     Assimilation

4.     Sarcastically

5.     Convent

6.     Loophole

7.     Skeptical

8.     Affluent

9.     Financial

10.  Glorify

11.  Idealism

12.  Obstinate

13.  Abstract

14.  Corrupt

15.  Irritating

16.  Associating

17.  Eavesdrop

18.  Prejudice

19.  Tentatively

20.  Chronic

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Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is an academic discipline that analyzes, explains, and responds to the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism. Postcolonialism speaks about the human consequences of external control and economic exploitation of native people and their lands. Drawing from postmodern schools of thought, postcolonial studies analyze the politics of knowledge (creation, control, and distribution) by examining the functional relations of social and political power that sustain colonialism and neocolonialism—the imperial regime's depictions (social, political, cultural) of the colonizer and of the colonized. -Wikipedia

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Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant: Crash Course World History #40

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CASAS Practice Test
Composition Practice
Spelling Test
Introduction to "Letters to the Editor"

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CASAS Test
Finish "Letter to the Editor" (page 83-84) of "Flying High"
"Columbus Day: The History"

---Read and Answer the Questions

"Indigenous Peoples Day"
---Read and Answer the Questions

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Please answer the following questions to the  "Columbus Day" article
1) When did Columbus Day begin being celebrated?
2) When Columbus set off to China, where did he land?
3) When did Columbus realize he hadn't reached Asia?
4) In what year did Columbus Day become a national holiday?
5) What are 3 alternative holidays that countries have replaced Columbus Day with?

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Columbus Day - Exploration - HISTORY.com

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Find out more about the history of Columbus Day, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com

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Please answer the following questions to the  "Indigenous Peoples Day" article
1) How did the US honor Christopher Columbus in the 1800 and 1900's?
2) The article states that those who know more about Columbus do not recognize him as a skilled mariner and explorer. They recognize him for __________________________________________________.
3) What were some of the effects of Spanish colonization in the US?
4) What does the article mean by "Indigenous people?"
5) Why does the writer believe Los Angeles should celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day?

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After much debate, both the Los Angeles City Council and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors recently voted to replace the Columbus Day holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day, beginning no later than 2019. Although to many this change will seem long overdue, others wonder why our elected officials have ventured into this political thicket.

This week marks 525 years since Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas. Nobody questions the historical significance of that feat, but how we understand Columbus and his place in world history has changed dramatically over the centuries.

Throughout the 1800s and 1900s, civic leaders hailed Columbus as the man who brought culture and civilization to the Americas and in so doing planted the seeds that grew into the democratic republic of the United States. They honored this proto-Founding Father in innumerable proclamations, statues, monuments, street names and public plazas. All this adoration culminated in 1937, when, following massive Italian immigration to the U.S., the federal government proclaimed a national holiday in his honor. The city of Los Angeles followed suit that year.

Today, however, those who know most about the life of Columbus see him as more than a skilled mariner, expert promoter and courageous explorer. Increasingly they point to the other aspects of his character and life: his arrogance, his poor administration of his colonial ventures and his blinkered conscience, which was untroubled by the enslavement of Native Peoples, even when doing so went against the wishes of his royal backers.

Moreover, Columbus' landfall ushered in one of the greatest injustices in human history: the wholesale transfer of wealth and lands from native peoples to Europeans; the unprecedented depopulation of vast swaths of the Americas as European diseases reduced native populations by 90%; and the violent oppression of indigenous culture and beliefs, as Spanish conquistadors and missionaries sought to convert indigenous peoples into servile laborers and observant Catholics.

That the colonization of the Americas made possible by Columbus was both cruel and tragic is not a matter of debate. The history is settled.

This is why, since 1992, municipalities large and small across the country have been stepping back from their public commemorations of Columbus. It's why, in July 2015, Pope Francis asked for forgiveness on behalf of the Catholic Church "for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America." And it's why the City Council and Board of Supervisors voted to change the holiday in his honor.

Even though California was among the last regions to be colonized by Spain, the shadow cast by Columbus reached all the way to our shores, and his namesake holiday is a particular affront to Californians whose ancestors suffered as a result.

Before Spanish colonization, the regions that make up modern California were home to the largest and most densely settled population of indigenous people north of the Valley of Mexico. Some 350,000 people lived here before Spanish missionaries and soldiers arrived in 1769. By the 1830s, the Franciscans had baptized more than 80,000 Natives, but 60,000 of them had died in the missions, and nearly 25,000 of the dead were children under 10.

It's fitting to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day because Natives from California, and indigenous people who immigrated here from other regions, played a crucial role in the early history of Los Angeles.

The first indigenous settlers to arrive in the L.A. Basin, in the 1780s, had been displaced from Baja California and from the regions that are now the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Once here, these newcomers hired Gabrielino-Tongva villagers to work as farmhands.

These indigenous newcomers built the pueblo that would become Los Angeles, establishing farms, ranches and commercial networks. Hundreds of Gabrielino-Tongva, who had weathered the storm of colonization, found work in the community. A newer indigenous L.A. grew up alongside the survival of an older one.

But after the U.S. acquired California from Mexico in 1848, the Gold Rush drew a tidal wave of Anglo Americans from the U.S., who brought with them a murderous racism that worked to oppress indigenous people and render them all but invisible.

Nevertheless, indigenous people - those native to California and those who had settled here - persisted in Southern California, and many more continued to move here from all corners of the Americas. In fact, according to recent census information, no county in the country has a higher percentage of indigenous people than L.A. County.

Some trace their California ancestry back hundreds of generations, others are more recent arrivals, but all have played a crucial role in the history of this city. Indigenous Peoples Day correctly celebrates and honors their place in L.A.'s past, present and future.
Steven W. Hackel is a professor of history at UC Riverside and the author of three books, including "Junipero Serra: California's Founding Father." Follow the Opinion section on Twitter @latimesopinion or Facebook

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Op-Ed: Why L.A. is right to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

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After much debate, both the Los Angeles City Council and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors recently voted to replace the Columbus Day holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day, beginning no later than 2019. Although to many this change will seem long overdue, others wonder why our elected officials have ventured into this political thicket.

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Indigenous Peoples Day "Letter to the Editor"

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Indigenous Peoples Day "Letter to the Editor"

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We will complete this in class on Thursday.
https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/education-outreach/columbus-day-or-indigenous-peoples-day.pdf

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www.readingrockets.org/content/pdfs/persuasiveletter_camping.pdf

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Summary Practice
Group Discussion on Goal Setting
Review of Columbus Day and Indigenous Day

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Introduction to Indigenous History
A History of Native American Life in California
Writing Assignment: Due Today

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A History of American Indians in California

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A History of American Indians in California

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Considering everything we have read about Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, and the history of indigenous tribes in California, it's time to put your thoughts and opinions into writing.
You have two options:
 If you believe the name of the holiday should be changed, write your own proclamation (for the Corona-Norco School District, Corona or California). You can use some of the language and format from the proclamations, but it must be in your own words own words.
 If you believe the name of the holiday should remain as Columbus Day, write a letter to an official (Principal, Mayor, or Governor) or a letter to the editor of a local paper with your thoughts, opinions and ideas as to why it should not be changed.

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CASAS Practice
Writing Practice: Fixing Fragments and Run-ons
---comma FANBOYS & ICDC's
Symbolism
---Lecture
---Group work and class dicussion
---Reading: William Blake's "The Sick Rose"

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Warmup: The Chopping Block
---Symbol Paragraph Writing and Discussion
"Cranes" by Hwang Sun-won
---Group Reading and Discussion
---Comprehension Questions
Spelling Word Distribution

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1. Choose a well known religious, national, or cultural symbol

2. write a (half) paragraph analyzing its meaning. Include the standard meaning along with a personal interpretation and a personal interpretation from someone else.