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ACtiVitY 3.6
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Quick conversation
• Share your work with a partner. Take turns explaining your adjustment and rewriting of the sentences. Identify the subject of each sentence, and explain why it is now performing the action in the sentence. Discuss whether your partner agrees or disagrees with your rewrites, and if necessary, check the sentence in the original letter. Record notes from your discussion.
In this sentence the subject is .
The verb is in the passive voice.
I agree/disagree with your rewrite of the sentence because .
Another way to rewrite this sentence would be .
Write a short argument
In his 1927 letter, Scott H. Peters claims that school textbooks were “unjust” to the lives of Native Americans. Write a short argument in which you explain whether this claim is true or untrue today. Use details from the letter as well as what you recall from recent social studies reading. Before writing, read the model short argument provided. Notice what information is in each of the four sentences. Try structuring your argument in the same way.
ModEl: SHort ArguMEnt
In my opinion, modern textbooks present Native Americans fairly. My text described native cultures and their achievement, such as the irrigation systems of the Zuni people. Short ex- cerpts from Indian statesmen, like Chief Joseph, were included in the chapter, and the book told how whites mistreated native people, such as during the Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears.” For these and other reasons, I think textbooks today are much fairer than in 1927.
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