Just a quick reminder that we will have an early out on Wednesday, September 9th, at 12:45. I hope you all enjoyed your Labor Day with family and friends and found some time for rest and relaxation.
English 7:
Monday- no school
Tuesday- I will hand back students' movie outlines that were completed last Friday. We will review the rubric and any questions students may have over the grading of the assignment. The next performance task will work with our blogs that we established last week. Students will be asked to make two blog posts this week pertaining to our unit theme. The theme of our first collection of stories is Bold Actions. Students' first post will be a short personal narrative recounting a time where they took bold actions and the outcome of those actions.
Wednesday- Students' second post will challenge the students to find a news article that depicts a person taking/showing bold actions. They will post a link to the story, summarize the text, and then post a response to the text expressing their opinion of the article. Students will need to determine if the actions taken were wise or foolish, in their opinion, and then support their claim with textual evidence. Writing standards addressed with the blog post are: W1- students can write an argument with clear reasons and relevant evidence, W4- students can produce clear, coherent writing in which development, organization, and style are appropriate for the task, and W6- students can use technology to produce and publish their work with links to resources.
Thursday- Students will read the short myth "The Flight of Icarus" and engage in discussions about Greek Mythology and the lessons they strive to teach. The performance task tied to this section will ask the students to research another Greek myth and retell it in the form of a graphic comic using both verbal and visual elements to convey characters, conflict, and theme.
Friday- Students will have the class period to continue working on their Greek myth graphic comic. Teacher will be readily available to assist and guide. Depending on student progress, this task may be due today but we'll see how it goes. Writing standards addressed with this task are: W3- students can write a real or imagined narrative with descriptive details and effective technique, W5- students can use guidance from peers and adults to plan, revise, and edit their writing, and W7- students can conduct short research projects that use several sources to answer a specific question.
English 8:
Monday- No school
Tuesday- Due to the early outs last week we have some carry-over assignments to get finished up. Students will have the class period to finish their summaries and plot diagrams over My Favorite Chaperone. Teacher will be available to assist and guide in the completion of this task.
Wednesday- Students next two performance tasks focus on conducting a short research project and then presenting their information in two ways, poster and explanation graph. For the poster, students will choose a country where mass migration has taken place. Students will need to choose a time period, identify the type of government during this time, explain policies/laws/rules and how they affected the people of this country, and identify any events and conditions that led people to leave their home country. Students will focus on answering the question, "What factors cause people to leave their home country?"
Thursday- Students will work on the explanation graph portion of the performance task. Staying with the immigration research, students will focus on immigration into the United States. Students will choose a few years to look into and identify statistics such as number of immigrants that settled in the USA as well as their birth countries and cross referencing numbers to compare immigrant totals from various countries. Students will present their findings either using a bar graph or circle graph as a visual aid.
Friday- the plan for now is for students to present their research to the class, but if we need more time we will use class time to work and present on Monday. Writing standards that will be addressed in these two performance tasks are: W7- students can conduct short research projects that use several sources to answer a specific question and generate additional focused questions as needed and W8- students can gather information from multiple sources and assess credibility and accuracy of those sources.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please let me know. As always, lesson plans are subject to change depending on student progress and concept retention.
Have a wonderful week!!
Ms. Ashley Alonzo
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