10/3/22 - Sulzer Library Walking Field Trip for History Fair
10/11/22 - Indigenous People's Day - No School
10/14/22 - Pride Stride
10/21/22 - School Improvement Day - No School for Students
10/26/22 - High School Entrance Exam
11/8/22 - Election Day - No School
Reminders:
- Dress for the Weather on Monday for our Walking Field Trip
- The Graduation Fee of $130.00 may be paid at your convenience at the Coonley E-pay site.
- Ms. Wheatman, our counselor, will continue individual meetings with students to discuss the High School Application process during advisory.
Homeroom/Advisory - We will begin the 7 Mindsets: Unit 1 with a focus on Everything is Possible: Dream Big. We are continuing to read Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson as our Equity Read Aloud on Wednesdays. Thursdays - students had time for Free Reading. On Friday, we will check Google Classroom Submissions to ensure all assignments were submitted, checked Aspen Gradebook for any missing word/assignments or opportunities for retakes, cleaned out binders, desks and lockers as needed.
ELA - This coming week, we worked on completing our introductions and conclusions for the Literary Essay on Comic Techniques that illustrate a universal truth. Students looked at four techniques: quotes, rhetorical questions, anecdotes, and facts/statistics as possible techniques for writing an engaging introduction and conclusion. We completed 12th Night up to and including Act 1, Scene 5 in a Readers' Theater format. Next week, students will prepare to work in groups to present Act 2 in class. We will use our Embedded Performance Assessment Rubric to look at the elements of a great performance and apply those to Act 2. We will continue exploring new vocabulary, annotating for literary devices, and exploring Shakespearean characters types including round/flat, dynamic/static, foil, stock and confidante.
Civics/Social Science - We enjoyed our interactive 1st Amendment Field Trip thinking about censorship, cancel culture and other aspects that affect Free Speech. Students have selected and done some preliminary research on their History Fair topics. On Monday, we will visit Sulzer Library to explore their reference and database resources while we continue learning about students' choice topics. We looked at Voting Rights with an interactive simulation of who could vote during different time periods in US History and were surprised how voting rights have been granted and restricted. We'll continue to look at Voting Rights in the present as well as the First Amendment in Launch 1-4.
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