Sunday, January 31, 2016

Good Morning Quirky Queen Elizabeth Pocket Beagles!

Please take a stance on the following topic: Do professional athletes make too much money? Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 


  • CNN Student News
  • Think about the country that you created and the USA What did you have in common? Did you both include:
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedom of Press
    • Freedom of Religion 
    • Equality under the law
  • Compare and Contrast USA and another country's rights and responsibilities
  • Google Form 
Homework:
  • Work on your Act Responsibly Goal
  • WWW due 2/3 (Core 1 Only)
  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Good Morning Playful Pit bulls!

Happy Friday! Please start your morning by writing your weekly book blog. Please use the prompts for reflection if needed. 

8:00-8:05 Attendance
8:05-8:30 Town Meeting- Community Gathering go over- Whip a Na Na- talk about citizenship goals
wolf tracks and kind monkey
8:30-9:00 Write citizenship goals and reflect
9:00-10:00
GID w/ Burns & Griffin
Movie then free time w/ Kelly & Bronner
10:00-10:30 Recess
10:30-11:30 core ½

11:30-12:30 core ¾

  • Think about the country that you created and the USA What did you have in common? Did you both include:
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedom of Press
    • Freedom of Religion 
    • Equality under the law
  • Compare and Contrast USA and another country's rights and responsibilities
  • Google Form 
Homework:
  • WWW due 2/3 (Core 1 Only)
  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Good Morning Optimistic Otterhound's

Should the use of cell phones by people driving cars be banned in all states? Should it be just texting that is banned? Should only teenagers have the restrictions placed on them?
Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 


  • Please take out your Venn Diagram from yesterday and work independently on comparing and contrasting your country and the United States. 
  •  Compare and Contrast USA and another country's rights and responsibilities
  • Google Form 
Homework:
  • WWW due 2/3 (Core 1 Only)
  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Good Morning Naive Neapolitan Mastiff

Please finish your responsibility chart and complete it. When finished you can either work on your word work or independently read. 


8:00-9:30Students are in home teams. Students work alone to finish the laboratory report write-up
9:30-10:00 Break
10:00-11:15 Cores ½
11:15-12:30 Cores 3/4
  • Who is interested in doing spring track and field?
  • Winter outing - next Monday at Craftsbury
  • Weekly Word Work Quiz 
  • CNN Student News 
  • Compare and Contrast: Your country you created with the rights and responsibilities as a US citizen - Venn Diagram 

Homework:
  • WWW due 2/3 (Core 1 Only)
  • Do your Bedside-5!
  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH

Monday, January 25, 2016

Good Morning Marvelous Mudi's


Please reflect on the work that you did yesterday with Pocket Law Firm? What did you learn from this experience? Did it help you to identify the amendments and rights from the Constitution? What did you learn from losing a case? Was this a useful tool? Why or why not?
8:05-9:00 Work in pairs to complete experiment
9:00-9:30 Break
9:30-11:00 Cores ½
11:00-12:30 Cores 3/4
Homework:
  • WWW quiz Wednesday 1/27
  • Do your Bedside-5!
  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH

Good Morning Lolling Lapphunds!

Please finish your Constitution webquest if you have not done so already. If you have, please respond to the following prompt: write a fictional email to your teacher summarizing why your iPad was taken for the day. Be clear, to the point, and only include the big ideas.
  • CNN Student News
  • Missing word logs/work: lunch!
  • Quiz Wednesday: Bedside 5!
  • Rights & Responsibilities review
  • Model Pocket Law Firm
  • Play with a partner and talk it through
  • Reflection: what did you learn?
Homework:
  • WWW quiz Wednesday 1/27
  • Do your Bedside-5!
  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Good Morning Kind Kerry Blue Terriers

Please read the following one page story "My First Baseball Game."   Think back to our mini-lesson from last week about summarizing and write your BEST summary of the text. Please put it in blogger and title it: "My First Baseball Game" Summary.


  • CNN Student News 
  • LAST CALL: iCivics
  • If you have finished iCivics - please read the Newsela articleWrite a short paragraph that explains the central idea of the article. Use at least two details from the article to support your response on your blog. Title it: Supreme Court and Immigration.
Homework: 
  • World log quiz next Wednesday (1/27)
  • Read 30 minutes each night M-TH

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Good Morning Jumping Jack Russels!

Please read independently!
  • CNN Student News
  • Quiz: Bedside 5! 
  • iCivics Webquest

Homework: 
  • World log quiz next Wednesday (1/27)
  • Read 30 minutes each night M-TH

Good Morning Incredible Irish Wolfhounds!

Please read independently!
  • LIBRARY DAY!
  • Word Logs Due!
  • CNN Student News 
  • iCivics Webquest

Homework: 
  • World log due Wednesday
  • Read 30 minutes each night M-TH

Monday, January 18, 2016

Good Morning Helpful Hairless Khala's



Should students be given more breaks in their school day? Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 

  • CNN Student News 
  • iCivics Webquest

Homework: 
  • World log due Wednesday
  • Read 30 minutes each night M-TH

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Good Morning Graceful Glen of Imaal Terrier's

Please read the following short story. Then you are going to write a summary. Please use the learning scale below to see the expectation for proficiency. 




Friday schedule
8:00-8:05 Attendance
8:05-8:30 Town Meeting
8:30-9:00 Goals reflection prompt and check in
9:00-10:00 GID Burns and Griffin (Bronner/Burns rooms)
10:00-10:30 Recess
10:30-11:30 core ½
11:30-12:30 3/4


  • CNN Student News
  • Summarizing Mini-Lesson
  • iCivics Work
Homework: 
  • World log due Wednesday
  • Read 30 minutes each night M-TH


Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Good Morning Fabulous French Bulldogs!

Should students should be held legally responsible for bullying in schools? Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 


  • Griffin - finish video
  • MYSTERY MOTIVATORS!
  • CNN Student News
  • Review revised scale
  • Review word log #9 requirements
  • iCivics Webquest

Homework: 
  • read 30 minutes every night M-TH
  • Word Log #9 due next Wednesday!

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Good Morning Earnest Entlebucher Sennenhund

Core 1 - Please come in we are starting the morning with the Promise of Freedom video.  Core 2 - Please respond to the following prompt: Should all Americans be given universal daycare? That means all families would have free day care if they need it so the parents can go and work. Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 


  • CNN Student News 
  • Word Log Quiz
  • Review SCALE changes with interactive rights and responsibilities!
  • iCivics Webquest 
  • Library

Homework:


  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH
  • WWW due 1/20/16

Good Morning Daring Dalmations!

Please check PowerSchool to be sure all of your missing work is taken care of! Double check that your Immigration Project and your Chatterpix speeches are in your humanities 7 folder. Email when the work is there! When you are finished, write a blog post to explain what you think the difference is between a RIGHT and a RESPONSIBILITY! Use resources, BUT don't just slap in a couple of dictionary definitions - PARAPHRASE your response!

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Good Morning Campy Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Before you share your country, please respond to the following:
What was the most challenging thing for you in the development of your country and why? What do you like best about your country and why?


  • DANCE eligibility by Wednesday!
  • Student News
  • AIMSWEB
  • Meet in a small group about country. Report out:
    • What do you have that are similar?
    • What are the differences in your countries?
    • Is there a country that one of your group members created that you would like to live in? Why? What about the rights and values make this place an appealing place to live?
  • Review unit/daily target
  • Big idea: How was our country created? How is our government set up?
  • Crash Course in American Revolution
  • American Revolution Exit Ticket

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Good Morning Dazeling Dogue De Bordeaux

Please find your flag that you started for your country yesterday. You have 15 minutes to finish creating your flag. 

8:00-8:05 Attendance
8:05-8:25 Town Meeting: Wolf Tracks/ Kind Monkey
8:25-9:00 Goals Reflection in Blog
9:00-10:00 GID Core teachers in Bronner/Burns open room
10:00-10:30 Recess
10:30-11:30 Core ½
11:30-12:30 Core ¾


  • CNN Student News 
  • Book Blog and Examples
  • Share out Countries in Small Groups
    • What do you have that are similar?
    • What are the differences in your countries?
    • Is there a country that one of your group members created that you would like to live in? Why? What about the rights and values make this place an appealing place to live?
Homework:

  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH
  • WWW quiz 1/13/15

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Good Morning Crooning Chinchillas!

Please read independently for 15 minutes

Student News
Design your own country

Homework:

  • Read 30 minutes every night M-TH
  • WWW quiz 1/13/15

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Good Morning Bubbling Barasinghas!

Please pick a side to the following statement: Are field trips important to education? Should we take more field trips?  Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 
  • Share?
  • LIBRARY DAY!
  • Immigration projects in Drive & post self-assessment!
  • Put Chatterpix in Drive
  • Lunch for unfinished projects!
  • Word Logs due!
  • Return quizzes
  • Use parts of speech correctly
  • Student News

Good Morning Baboonish Bluetick Coonhound

Please pick a side to the following statement: Are field trips important to education? Should we take more field trips?  Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons. 


  • CNN Student News
  • WWW Due 
  • Independent Reading

    Homework:
    • WWW Quiz 1/13/2015
    • Read 30 minutes each night M-TH

Monday, January 4, 2016

Good Morning Abominable Affenpinschers!

Would it be better if the voting age was lowered to 13? Pick
side and write an argument. Remember to include a hook, your thesis and your supporting reasons.