English for April 9, 2013

Women have been oppressed throughout the history of the United States. They have had to fight against restrictive social structures for basic rights, such as the right to vote or the right to earn a highly paying salary at a job. Today you will learn a little about this history, and you'll learn about some very successful modern day American women.

Click here to access the article.

Click here to access the questions that go with the article.


What you will be graded on:

1. You must read and annotate the article. Here's an example of what annotation looks like on a written article. You should have margin notes, you should underline main ideas of each paragraph, and you should circle words you don't know the meaning of.
2. Your answers on the questions (the link is above). Free response questions should be at a 3 or 4 level to earn full credit.

If you finish early:

There's bonus questions available at this link. Completing questions 1-3 will earn you $300, and completing all questions (1-5) will earn you $500. You can do any of this work from home, too.

ps.

Here's a picture of Condoleezza Rice and a Quote from her:

“Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.” 
- Condoleezza Rice