{"id":74354,"date":"2020-06-23T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=74354"},"modified":"2020-06-23T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:19:51","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/whats-new\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s In A Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Writing<\/h5>\n<h3>Goals<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>read a nonfiction article and determine important information<\/li>\n<li>view a media clip and determine important information<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/non-fiction-writing\/nonfiction-writing-expository-writing-persuasive-writing\/\">write a persuasive paragraph or create a persuasive media sample in response to a prompt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Learning Task<\/h2>\n<p>During this time of civil unrest in the United States some symbols like the Confederate flag are being banned because of racist undertones.<\/p>\n<p>Often, Canadians believe we do not have the same problems as our neighbours to the south. However, there is controversy close to home. Some believe that the city name of Kitchener needs to be changed. View <a href=\"https:\/\/kitchener.ctvnews.ca\/kitchener-name-change-debate-being-revisited-1.4985290#_gus&amp;_gucid=&amp;_gup=twitter&amp;_gsc=iZCUhcK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the following video<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kitchener.ctvnews.ca\/kitchener-name-change-debate-being-revisited-1.4985290#_gus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the accompanying news article<\/a> to answer the following in a persuasive paragraph persuasive media sample:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The city name of Kitchener should be changed<\/li>\n<li>The city name of Kitchener should not be changed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Daily task! Don\u2019t forget to engage with your Writer\u2019s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection<\/h3>\n<p>Note: <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/creating-a-place-for-reflection-day-one\/\">please see the information in this lesson for guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View the video and read the accompanying news article to answer the following in a persuasive paragraph persuasive media sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72776,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74354\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}