Slave Trade Triangle Map

Yellow = First Contact

 Africans and European had made contact before slavery in the Mediterranean sea

Pink = First Slaves Taken

Portuguese sail to Africa to search for gold

Blue = Europeans set up slave post

Traded guns and weapons with African Kings

Purple = The First Passage

The voyage between Europe and Africa is known as the first passage

Red = First slaves in USA

First slaves went here. Slaves were auctioned

Exploring The Blurb

Unwind blurb: The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called "unwinding". Unwinding is now common, and accepted , practice in society

In the not-too-distant future, teens Connor, Risa, and Lev are on the run for their lives. Following the Second Civil War, between pro-choice and pro-life forces, the United States now allows parents to unwind their unwanted and difficult kids between the ages of thirteen and eighteen: Their bodies are surgically taken apart and all the organs and tissue are used in other people. According to the law, the kids aren't considered dead, they're "living in a divided state." But Connor, Risa, and Lev, and thousands of other teens slated for "unwinding", don't see it that way. They choose instead to "kick AWOL," or run away. Unwind follows these three across the country as they travel together, split up, and meet again when their destinies cross in a Harvest Camp where they are slated to be unwound.

1. What do you already know about pro-life and pro-choice groups? What do these terms mean? Is it an issue you have thought about? Pro-life is when people believe that everyone has the right to live and pro-choice is believing that abortion is okay.
2. What do you know about organ donation?  That if someone is sick or dying and their organs are healthy, they can choose to donate them to other people.
3. to be unwound are sent to Harvest Camps. Can you make a connection between the language used to describe this place, and other places people have been sent historically? The other place could be concentration camps in ww2
4. What religious connotation does the word 'harvest' evoke? Harvesting organs or limbs. I dont know
5. The term "living in a divided state" here is really a euphemism for what? Can you think of other, common euphemisms? Why do people use euphemisms?
6. What is the definition of legal? Something you can do without getting in trouble
7. What about ethical? It being morally right.
8. Do you believe that because something is legal, it is also ethical, or morally right? no there are plenty of legal things I do not necessarily think are ethical.
9. Can things that are ethically sound ever be illegal? Provide examples. If it matches up to your morals then I guess so. I don't really know any examples
10. Can you think of examples in history to support your ideas? Provide examples.

Examining the Cover

Examining The Cover


How do you think this story will be written?
I do not know.

Why do you think this story as is entitled as it is?
Maybe because peoples body parts are being taken away from them.

Where do you think the story will take place?
America because everything is American.

What time period do you think this story is set in?
15/06/3475
Maybe the future

Dystopian Literature

Dystopian Literature

3 synonyms for dystopia:
antiutopia
apocolypse
misery

An antonym for dystopia:
Utopia

What dystopian novels have you read?
Unwind
Lockwood & Co
The Giver

What dystopian films have you seen?
The 5th Wave
The Hunger Games
The Maze Runner
The Giver
The Darkest Minds

How many others can you name?
Divergent
City of Ember
Haddix Among The Hidden
Tomorrow When The War Began

Social Studies

What I already knew:

that we had the right to exist

What did I find interesting?

The number of human rights which get violated because of where people live.

What else would you like to learn?

I don't know.

CL Reflection Time

What do you think CL is?
Thinking of hidden meanings in things and why they're there.

What did you learn from CL?
I learned how to ask questions about my a video or story that I usually wouldn't.

What did you find challenging during CL?
Changing my way of thinking to infer hidden things.

How will you use CL skills in real life?
Inferring stuff through the messages I get or movies that I watch.

What are you looking forward to in English this year?
Reading books. Lots of books.

Critical Questioning Matrix 3

Music Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVfcZ0ZcFM

Who benefits from this text?
All the people drake helped out.

How are characters constructed in this text?
Really grateful to Drake and happy to meet him. Drake seemed like a caring and generous person.

What kinds of social realities does this text portray?
Some people need more money than they have and that there are good people helping them.

Who is the most likely audience of this text and why?
Teenage girls because they like Drake so they'd probably watch the video too.