Please return signed Blue Covid Attestation Form and Promotion Policy. Excitement was in the air on Friday with the middle school red carpet dance. It was all the class could talk about! I hope it was a memorable night!!
Springfield/St. Louis Informational Meeting
Thursday, February 17, we will be hosting a virtual informational meeting for our Springfield/St. Louis Trip. During this meeting, Hemisphere and the teachers will give a brief presentation about our trip, discuss COVID safety precautions and have time for questions. The link is below and will be shared again closer to next Thursday.
Link for Springfield/St. Louis Informational Meeting
Spring Fling Flyer
A Spring Fling Flyer was sent home today. Please keep an eye out, and I hope to see you there on March 26th!
Water Bottles
Please do not forget to send your child to school with a water bottle every day. The water fountains only work to refill bottles, and it is hard to continue to keep cups on hand as we have already gone through so many this school year. Students are welcome to bring a water bottle in which they can leave here all week and take home to be cleaned on weekends.
History Fair - Thank you!
History Fair has come to a close. Thank you so much for your support at home. The projects are being sent to Amundsen and Lakeview next week to be judged and winners will be announced shortly after. As soon as everything is in order, we will share all projects with parents as well.
Important Upcoming Dates:
2/14/22 - Valentine's Day Party
2/14-18/22 - Coonley Virtual History Fair
2/17/22 - Link for Springfield/St. Louis Informational Meeting
2/21/22 - President's Day - No School
3/12/22 - Chicago History Day @ Chicago History Museum In-Person for advancing projects
3/18-25/22 - Chicago History Day Virtual Fair for advancing project
3/23/22 - Graduation Picture Day
3/28/22 - Chicago History Day Virtual Celebration
Academics
Advisory/SEL - The class spent time this week watching the documentary investigation and narrative drama, Social Dilemma. I encourage you to engage in a conversation with your child about it as many found it very eye opening. We will continue our Rainbow Revolutionaries reading/research this month. StoryCorps has some outstanding interviews @https://storycorps.org/black-history-month/ that we'll be exploring this month.
ELA - We will continue reading our memoir - Night by Elie Wiesel. It chronicles his life during the Holocaust. We will be looking at the following essential questions as we read and analyze the text: How do you keep hope alive when your rights are taken from you? What does it mean to be a minority and how does this impact our identity? How would living through a war change your childhood? Students are defining new vocabulary and completing discussion questions as we read.
Writing - We have started our poetry unit and students will be writing in 6 different styles (odes, ekphrasis, non-sense poetry, sonnets, sestinas, and free choice).
Civics - Students will have an opportunity to view and reflect on History Fair projects this week. We continued Unit 2 in Civics exploring Federalism. Next week, we will look at voting and students will also analyze an argument in Upfront magazine on Friday.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me at [email protected].