Wednesday, June 12, 2013

English for June 12, 2013



A powerful and inspiring landscape, Grand Canyon overwhelms our senses through its immense size. Unique combinations of geologic color and erosional forms decorate a canyon that is 277 river miles (446km) long, up to 18 miles (29km) wide, and a mile (1.6km) deep.

Read on to learn more about the Grand Canyon!

Your assignment:

The article will be distributed to you in class.

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.
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