Good Morning Youthful Yeezes!

Today is drafting day for your writing pieces! Please remember that the classroom environment needs
to be one where every student can concentrate and write. What kind of a space do you need to do your best writing?  Here are four tips from a Time for Kids journalist on how to beat writer's block:

1. Read what you've written so far (or talk about your idea) to a friend or family member.
2. If you're writing something long, stop when you know what you're going to write next.
This way, you'll have momentum when you start again.
3. Take a break and read something good.4. Just start writing, even if it's bad. It'll turn good once you warm up. 

7th Grade:

• Using the guide from yesterday work on your body paragraphs 
• Topic Sentence 
• Support your argument with three pieces of evidence, elaborations, details facts 
• So what analysis...
• If you are ready, use the counter-argument and rebuttal resource in schoology
• Place your draft in the shared folder 

8th Grade 

• Make sure you have your planning sheet out and have access to the checklist to look back on if needed. 
• Take breaks when needed - stay productive
• Put your draft in the shared folder

Humanities Extension:

• 7th Grade - Continue working on your rough draft 
• 8th Grade - Stock Market 

Homework 

Read 30 minutes 

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7th Grade - Yesterday you finished your persuasive leads. Look at the learning scale for persuasive leads and place yourself on the scale. Is there something you can do to strengthen your lead?

• Body Paragraphs
• We are going to use the model body paragraph in schoology to think about the key elements in a body paragraph within our persuasive writing recipe

8th Grade - Please read The Climb, next please use the graphic organizer with your tablemates to discuss this personal narrative. 

• Drafting time - today's focus is going to be on connecting our narrative lead to our focus or thesis of our writing. 
• if you are still working through your topic selection I have added an additional resource into our folder in schoology.

Humanities Extension:

7- Please write your two body paragraphs using our model as your guide 

8 - Stock Market Game 

Homework:

7 - Make sure you have your persuasive essay completed up to the counter argument 

8 - Rough draft for personal essay is due THURSDAY

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7th Grade - Finish your three leads and submit them to schoology. When you are finished please make sure to have your graphic organizer out and ready to go. 

8th Grade - Stock Market Reflection #1: Please create either a video or a piece of writing to reflect on the stock market game. Please respond to the following questions or write a free response:

• How would you explain the stock market and what stocks are?
• How does news and what is happening in the wold impact the stock market?
• How are you doing in the stock market game? Are you using any strategies for trading?
• What questions do you still have?

7th Grade - 

• Lead - Background information - Claim! 
• Persuasive essay learning scale - place on blogger 
• Body Paragraph 

8th Grade 

• Throwback Tuesday? - Narrative Leads that hook!
• Using your graphic organizer - start to write the snapshot of your moment for your reader 
• Remember to use sensory details and thoughts and feelings to bring your experience to life

Humanities Extension 

• 7 - Persuasive Writing 
• 8 - stock market - work on either reflection or trading 

Homework 

Read 30 minutes out of a just right book

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To Start we are going to watch this Ted Talk:



What are your thoughts on this idea of how to start a movement? Do you agree with Derek Sivers perspective on leadership and the power of followers? From this video think about what the role of a leader - what do they need to have?

Schoology catch up - please hand in your Venn diagram on Private Peaceful

7th - 

• Pen Pal Letter Check - you can also do a partner share
• Make sure all of the suggestions are resolved before sharing
• Counter Argument and Rebuttal partner share 
• 5 Types of Hooks
• Try to start your essay with THREE of the types of hooks 

8th Grade - 

• WWI Retakes?
• Hand in your life graph to schoology
• Looking at your life graph, which of your experiences do you think allows for the best reflective moment? 
• Planning document

Humanities Extension: 
7th Grade - Edit your pen pal letter and then continue writing your persuasive essay leads 

8th - Stock Market Game 


Homework: 
Read 30 minutes out of a just right book. 

NAEP Testing Day

8:00-8:20	TA
8:20-8:45	Town Meeting
8:45- 9:40 11:15	8th Grade - NAEP Testing 7th Grade - Expo 8th not testing - Mr. Weiss' room
9:40-10:30	8th Grade - Testing 7th Grade - Humanities 8th not testing - Mrs. Mercier
10:35-11:15	8th Grade - Testing 7th Grade -Math 8th not testing - Ms. Kelly
11:15- 11:35	Recess- for all
11:35- 12:00	8th who have not had testing to to lunch
11:35-12:25	7th Grade and 8th Grade who have had testing to to TA to work on PLP and project
12:25-12:50	Lunch for other students
12:50- 2:05	8th Grade - Core 2 7th Grade - Science
2:05-2:45	OT or recess

7th Grade - 

• What are the reasons that these 7th graders give for why people should eat In-N-Out burgers? 
• What make this a persuasive piece?
• Take time to complete the reasons and evidence for your writing piece. 

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7 - Take out your graphic organizer planning sheet from yesterday and a keyboard. Take a moment to brainstorm what you are going to be arguing for. What is your claim or stance going to be on your topic? Be ready to share.

8 - Take out your life graph planning organizer. Please take a moment to double check that you have at least one event for every year to be ready to work on your graph today. 

7th Grade 

• Within your table group please try to identify:
• Hook 
• Claim 
• Evidence and supporting reasons 
• Learning Scale 
• Next plan your claim that you are going to make in your essay
• Turn and talk - what is some evidence or examples you could use to support your claim?

8th Grade 

• Collect Private Peaceful 
• Please take your rough draft of your life graph the objective of today is to finish your life graph 
• As you are completing it be thinking about what moments allow for the most in-depth reflection of the experience 

Humanities Extension 

• 7 - planning persuasive writing 
• 8 - Wall Street Survivor

Homework - 8th Grade - give your NAEP paperwork to your parents. 

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Please take 7 minutes to work on your argumentative writing piece that you planned yesterday. This is going to be homework if you have not completed it. Also - please submit your Venn diagram to schoology. 

7th Grade 

• Think about the last time that you were in an argument that you won. What happened? How do you know that you"won"? What did you do to "win" the argument (be specific)?
• In writing how do you persuade your reader? What are the specific parts of a persuasive essay?
• Essay sort and matching 
• Using the graphic organizer please come up with your stance 

8th Grade 

• What is a stock?

• What is the stock market anyway?

• When are we going to be using Wall Street Survivor?
• Humanities Extension
• We are constructing an understanding of the stock market to understand one of the causes of the Great Depression 
• Personal Narrative 
• Life Graph 

Humanities Extension:

7 - continue to work on the persuasive writing graphic organizer

8 - Wall Street Survivor 

Homework:

7 - Have your stance and start to brainstorm your examples 

8 - Answer your questions about your life graph. Come in ready to work on plotting the points on your graph. 

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Today we are going to be working on argumentative writing based

on a Newsela article. 

•  Please select one of the following articles:
• Is the Idea of Driverless Cars Gaining Popularity?
• Is a Sporting Event the Best Place for a Protest?
• Is Now the Time for Climate Change Laws in the US?
• Next, take a position and find evidence to support your position and write an argumentative essay. 

Humanities Extension:

7th Grade - finish your essay 

8th Grade - Stock Market Game 

Homework: Read 30 minutes 

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8:00-8:45 Extended TA

8:45-9:40 EXPOs/ Meeting

9:40-10:00 Town Meeting in Ms. Bronner's

10:00-10:30 Get It Done in TA

10:30-10:50 Recess

10:50-11:15 TA- 7 minute write

11:15- 12:25- Private Peaceful in Ms.Mercier’s room

12:25-12:50 Lunch

12:50-1:30 Finish Private Peaceful in Ms. Mercier’s

1:30 - 2:05 Back to TA- Venn diagram and Team Read

2:05-2:45 Opportunity Time/ work on portfolio exhibit

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7 - Take 7 minutes to finish your rough draft of your letter. Please make sure it is in the google drive. 

8 - Write the narrative of a time that someone was kind to you.

7th Grade 

• On demand writing pre-assessment 
• Should students be able to use cell phone at school?

8th Grade:

• Great Depression photograph debrief:
• What are these photographs actually of?
• What is the mood and tone of these images?
• What questions about this time period does it bring up for you?
• What caused the Great Depression?
• One cause - the Stock Market Crash 
• We are going to explore and experience the stock market - our goal - to construct and understanding of how the stock market works
•  Wall Street Survivor 
• Password pamlpaml
• Stock Information

Humanities Extension:

7 - Continue to work on your persuasive writing piece. 

8 - Blog post reflecting on images and try to trade stocks. 

Homework:

Read 30 minutes 

Good Morning Quiet Questions

7th - Please write a piece to persuade your audience: Should public schools require students to wear uniforms?

8th - Write about the story of your greatest accomplishment. 


7th Grade: 

• Continue to work on your pen pal letter. 
• Writing conferences 
• All letters are due tomorrow 

8th Grade:

• What does the "Great Depression" mean?
• Observe, reflect, question cycle 
• A look back in time!

Humanities Extension:

7- finish letters 

8 - continue your narrative or read 

Homework:

Read 30 minutes in a just right book 

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7th Grade: Please take ten minutes to go through your writing piece from yesterday and submit it to schoology. 

8th: Please take 5 minutes to finish up your learning scale from yesterday and submit to schoology. Be sure to have a PENCIL. 

7th grade:

• Letter to pen pals
• Israel

8th grade:

• Personal Narratives:
• Please write a personal reflective narrative about the following prompt:
• We all learn from moments of challenge. What is a moment when you faced a challenge and how did you react to this challenge?

Humanities extension:

• 7th - Please finish your letter and put it in the folder 
• 8th - Please enjoy kicking back and reading! 

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7th Grade - Jump on to schoology and take out your End of the War reading. Respond to the prompt: Evaluate this statement "Without the US, the allies (Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the US) would not have won WWI." What evidence from the text do you have to support this position?

8th Grade: Please finish your comparison of Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versaille. 

Goals of the week: I can explain how WWI ended and the consequences of the Great War.

7th Grade:

• Letter to pen pals
• Israel

8th Grade:

• Hand back quizzes
• Final learning scale reflection on schoology 

Humanities Extension:

Watch this video and while watching think about graduated and the impact that it has on happiness. Who is someone that you would want to thank or reach out to? Alternate: Write a list of 10 things that you are grateful for.

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Team Apollo: Half Day Schedule

8:00 - 8:15 - TA

8:15 - 9:00 - Community Gathering in Gym

9:00 - 9:30 - Expos

9:30 -10:00 Core 1

10:00-10:20 Recess

10:20 ish-11:00 Core 2

11:00-30 Core 3

11:30 - 11:55 - Lunch - pick up in Cafe - eat in rooms
Goals of the week: I can explain how WWI ended and the consequences of the Great War.

• CNN Ten
• Supreme Court Nomination
• 7th Grade
• Evaluate this statement "Without the US, the allies (Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the US) would not have won WWI." What evidence from the text do you have to support this position?
• 8th Grade 
• What were the motives for resolving WWI with the Treaty of Versaille?
• Compare and contrast the Treaty of Versaille with Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
• Was the treaty "fair"?

Homework:

Enjoy the long weekend!