12/22/22 - Class Winter Break Party
12/23/22 - School Improvement Day - No School for Students
12/26/22 - 1/6/23 - Winter Break
1/9/23 - Return to School
1/16/23 - MLK Jr. Day - No School
1/30/23 - Coonley History Fair @8:30AM
Homeroom/Advisory - Students will explore Winter Holidays Around the World in Cougar Connections this week through a video and National Geographic research. We will continue reading Just Mercy and watch a Ted-Talk from author, Bryan Stevenson.
ELA - We are nearing the end of our Science Fiction Novel Units. Students will continue to complete Science Fiction reading assignments and annotations for each chapter of Nyxia, Across the Universe and City of Embers. Students will share out their annotations (Words of the Wise, Tough ?’s, Contrasts & Contradictions, A-Ha, Memory Moments and Again & Again) as well as their Chapter Summaries created in storyboard that.com. As we read, students will continue to look for the characteristics of a science fiction anti-hero: the chosen one, have special powers, are outcasts/outliers, are unlikely/unlikeable heroes.
Writing - Students will continue working on Quill individualized grammar lessons for the intermediate unit to focus their personalized plans. Students will work on their History Fair papers, specifically body paragraph 4 (counterclaim) and body paragraph 1&2 (introduction and conclusion). Students will continue to add to their Annotated Bibliographies as they find sources.
Civics/Social Science - We will explore Launch 2.5: How can individuals govern through activism? We will complete Unit 2 with Launch 2.6 looking at the roles of individuals in the judicial system (Supreme Court Justice, Attorney, Juror, and Plaintiff) and how each plays a different role in seeking justice. We are nearing the end of Participate Civics and students have been thinking about a Civic Action Project that would help improve our school and/or community in Unit 4.
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