Reading - New Yorker

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Minneapolis, the Coronavirus, and Trump’s Failure to See a Crisis Coming

New Yorker -  30 May 2020

What's going on in America?

Read the article & answer the questions

Mark uses of structure words

Vocabulary

Guess the meaning of the following words based on context clues, then check your answer

(¶ 1) conflagrations

(¶ 1) countenance

(¶ 1) looted

(¶ 2) disparate

(¶ 2) exacerbated

(¶ 3) accretion 

(¶ 6) detrimental

put your guesses here

How are the three different aspects of the text connected to each other (Trump, Coronavirus, Police brutality)

What is the reason for the protests, according to paragraph 3

What is the function of paragraphs 3, 4 & 5

How did Twitter get involved?

What is Cobb's main point/thesis statement?

Find an example of passive tense in paragraph 6; why is a passive being used here?

Rewrite this sentence using a passive;
'Progressives have widely criticized the 1994 Crime Bill,'

construct a conditional in which you connect Trump's or police actions to the riots

If you're done early:

Make a list of new words you've found in the text.

First try and guess their meaning based on context clues, then check your definitions/translations

Write a short response to the article by Cobb