Syllabus and literacy stat questions

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Part 1: Directions: Go to my website http://sphsteam3.blogspot.com/ and answer the following questions.  You may want to copy and paste to another document. Share with me at ferranta.spsd@gmail.com Please bookmark my website to your bookmark bar.

1. What % of your grade is classwork?
2. What % of your grade is assessment?
3. What should you do if you miss school?
4. How long do you have to make up work for an excused absence?
5. What room am I in on white days?
6. When is the book review due?
7. Go to the homework page. What do you see?
8. What are the two essential questions for unit one?
9. List three assignments for unit one.
10. Find the link to Teen Ink. Find your summer reading book and read the review. State one thing you agree with.
11. If you have one, give me a suggestion on how to improve the website.

Part 2 Literacy Stat questions. Go to the literacy stat link on my website and answer the questions.
1. What is the definition of literacy?
2. What is the literacy rate for girls in Afghanistan? ________boys?______ What region of the world is this?
3. What is the literacy rate for girls in Benin? ________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
4. What is the literacy rate for girls in Brazil?________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
5. What is the literacy rate for girls in China?________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
6. What is the literacy rate for girls in India?________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
7. What is the literacy rate for girls in Germany?________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
8. What is the literacy rate for girls in Greece?________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
9. What is the literacy rate for girls in US?________boys?__________What region of the world is this?
10. What role does the literacy rate play for the country you picked?
11. What do you notice about the rates between boys and girls? Explain the reasons for this.

Part 3: On the literacy unit handout I gave you, choose one to three of the questions and please do a freewrite. Label it last name: literacy freewrite.