Good Morning Terrific Tuna!

Today - please write a short story or poem from the perspective of a person your own age living in the great depression. Think about your details and elaborations, building your setting and adding depth to your characters.

7th Grade: 

• Narrative Story Board 
• Starting rough draft writing 

8th Grade 

• Calendar of the rest of the week 
• Project work time - you should be FINISHED with your research 
• Project due on Friday! 
• Last Chapel Speaker

Humanities extension: 

7 - work on writing 

8 - work on your project 

Homework: 

7 - read 30 minutes 

8 - Your project is due on FRIDAY

Good Morning Scintillating Snails

Please come in - today we are going to be working on SBAC prep. I will help you get set up. Make sure you are on the training test! There should be a tricycle on the login page. 

• Purpose: The purpose of today is to see the different types of testing questions. 
• Please try all of the features - highlighting, notes, audio, etc. 
• Ask questions when you come to a question you do not understand - today is a day that I can help you. 

Homework: 

7th - read 30 minutes

8th: Finish your research. 

Good Morning Rambunctious Rays!

• 8:00-8:45 TA
  8:45-9:40 EXPO
• 9:40-10:00 Town Meeting
• 10:00-10:45 AWOD in Bronner/Mercier
• 10:45-11:05 Recess
• 11:05-11:45 Core 1
• 11:45-12:25 Core 2
• 12:25-12:50 Lunch
• 12:50-1:25 Portfolio Reflection/Project
• 1:25-2:05 Core 3
• 2:05-2:45 OT

7th Grade:

• Pick one of the stories that you wrote last week - go back and read through it - then try and add additional details and elaborations. Your challenge is to try and include:
• Three sensory details
• Two pieces of dialogue
• one line describing the setting
• Take out your RAFT graphic organizer from yesterday and continue planning your historical fiction stories

8th Grade:

• Project proposal debrief
• Independent work time

Homework - Read 30 minutes

Good Morning Quintessential Queen Parrotfish

Please select either select an image below or use your knowledge to start a new poem or narrative or continue working on one you started earlier in the week.

7th Grade 

• Finish watching the History of Us video about the Great Depression and the New Deal 
• A History of Us Video Questions 

8th Grade:

• Submit your research to schoology with your sources
• Learning Scale Self Assessment check in 
• Project Proposal

Humanities Extension:

Homework: 

Please read 30 minutes 

Good Morning Positive Parrotfish!

Please pick a photograph to write a narrative or a poem inspired by the image. What is life like for these children? What was happening before this? What happened after?

8th Grade: Continue to work on your research today. I will be having you submit your research tomorrow. Be ready to share your project idea. 

Humanities Extension: Please take 15 minutes to write about the images if you did not do so in class. 

Good Morning Optimistic Octopus!

Please pick one of the following images to inspire a poem or a narrative about the Great Depression:

7th Grade: 

• Please reading Getting Rich Quickly and respond to the questions using PQPA

8th: 

• Please continue to work on your independent research 

Humanities Extension: 

7 - continue to answer the questions - finish for homework 

8 - continue to work on your independent research

Good Morning Nerdy Narrow Lined Puffers!

Please go to schoology and double check that all of your assignment have been handed in for the quarter. If you have handed in a re-do or a late assignment - I am grading all of them later this week. One you finish that, please independently read. 

7th Grade 

• Stories of the Great Depression Project outline 
• What Crashed? Reading and question response using P

8th Grade:

• Go over the project calendar 
• Independent Research 
• What happened when I cannot find specific information on my topic?
• Keep track of your research notes and your sources - you are going to be handing them in. 

Humanities Extension:

7 - finish your questions from the in-class reading

8 - Work on your research. 

Homework:

7 - finish the questions and missing assignments

8 - get your missing assignments completed for the end of the quarter