CERCA Slides by Grade
Grade 3: Active Citizenship
What is citizenship? What rights and responsibilities do citizens have? (CCSS.RI.3.1, CCSS.W.3.2)
Grade 4: Voting Rights Act
What strategies were most effective in the struggle to pass the Voting Rights Act? (CCSS.RI.4.2; CCSS.W.4.1)
Grade 5: Social Responsibility
How do individuals stand up and take responsibility for changing their societies? (CCSS.RI.3.1, CCSS.W.3.2)
Grade 6: Personal Identity
Which strategies will be most effective in managing young people's concerns about body image? (CCSS.RI.6.2, CCSS.W.6.1)
Grade 7: Social Responsibility
What is Malala Yousafzai's most heroic quality? (CCSS.CCRA.R.7.9;CCSS.W.7.1)
Grade 8: Image and Impact
Describe the ways in which Dorothea Lange’s photographs of migrant workers were an effective way to make a case to the American people about government policies during the Depression. (CCSS.RI.8.7; CCSS.W.8.1)
Grade 9: Social Responsibility
Why does Anthony call a government that denies women the right to vote "the most hateful aristocracy ever established" in the world? (CCSS.RI.9-10.9; CCSS.W.9-10.1)
Grade 10: Video Games
Does the video game convention have more potential for positive or negative change for women in Saudi Arabia? (CCSS.RI.9-10.8, CCSS.W.9-10.1)
Grade 11: Perseverance
Using examples from the lives of Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman, explain why humanizing the stories of people who are the first to make a breakthrough is important for biographers of their stories. (CCSS.RI.11-12.3; CCSS.W.11-12.2)
Grade 12: Perseverance
Using examples from the lives of Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, explain why humanizing the stories of people who are the first to make a breakthrough has an important impact for readers and listeners. (CCSS.RI.11-12.3; CCSS.W.11-12.2)
