Friday, March 13, 2015 1. CMAS/PARCC Testing 2. Work Time HW--
Open Letter DueBEFORE 7:15 on March 13th--need to "turn in" before class on Friday. In your document, click "turn in" in top right corner of screen.
Africa: NOT a Single Story Project due March 13th--you will have NO CLASS TIME to work on this on Friday. Everything should be 100% complete when you walk in the door. We will be celebrating the end of our Africa unit during block 2. You may bring food or drink to contribute to our celebration if you'd like.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1. CMAS/PARCC Testing 2. Work Time HW--
Open Letter DueBEFORE 7:15 on March 13th--need to submit through google classroom before class on Friday
Africa: NOT a Single Story Project due March 13th--you will have NO CLASS TIME to work on this on Friday. Everything should be 100% complete when you walk in the door. We will be celebrating the end of our Africa unit during block 2. You may bring food or drink to contribute to our celebration if you'd like.
Monday, March 9, 2015 1. CMAS/PARCC Testing 2. Work Time HW--
Open Letter DueBEFORE 7:15 on March 13th--need to submit through google classroom before class on Friday
Africa: NOT a Single Story Project due March 13th--you will have NO CLASS TIME to work on this on Friday. Everything should be 100% complete when you walk in the door. We will be celebrating the end of our Africa unit during block 2. You may bring food or drink to contribute to our celebration if you'd like.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11.1 Warm up-Grammar 11.2 TED/found poem using the Transcript from the WarChild TED Talk 11.3 War Child excerpt 11.4 Sudan: Background NOtes 11.5 Watch God Grew Tired of Us HW-- 1.Finish Found Poem 2.Africa Film Assignment
On first two pages of the TED talk Transcript, underline (don't highlight) stirring and stunning words and short phrases. You will use these to build a poem later so capture strong words! Do not annotate this.
10.4 Watch My Power Video by Immanuel Jal HW-- 1. AFRICA MOVIE ASSIGNMENT 2. Registration
GENOCIDE IN RWANDA: ASSESSING RESPONSIBILITY You will spend the first part of class today collecting evidence to try to answer the question, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA. You will then formulate a claim statement assigning responsibility to one of the groups above. Finally, you will participate in a SOCRATIC SEMINAR with your classmates analyzing and debating responsibility in the Rwandan genocide. 1.Watch the Frontline documentary, Ghosts of Rwanda. Take notes (collect data). 2.Work with a partner or independently to research further. Use the resources provided below. You may use the internet when you have exhausted the resources provided. Continue to fill in notes on the back. Resources: a.Rwanda history powerpoint b.PBS Frontline timeline #1 ; PBS Frontline timeline #2 c.Rwanda interactive website d. Ghosts of Rwanda Full Site
WEDNESDAY, February 11, 2015 1. Warm up: Grammar
MONDAY, February 9, 2015 8.1 Warm up-quick study for map test 8.2 Map Test 8.3 Assessing Responsibility Stages of Genocide 8.4 Finish Hotel Rwanda 8.5 Letter to Paul HW-- Update your notebook!------------------------------------------->
THURSDAY, February 5, 2015 7.1 Grammar Test 7.2 Rwanda reading quiz 7.3 Read “Ordinary Man”. Link to Online Textbook from website. Click here for specific assignment 7.4 Watch Hotel Rwanda Homework: 1.Study for map test 2.Finish reading and responding to online text questions and prompt. 3.SMELL analysis of "Ordinary Man" 4. Left side entry for "Ordinary Man"
Wednesday January 28, 2015 4.1Warm up—grammar 4.2 Finish Scramble 4.3“White Man’s Burden” HW-- On page 147, write a response poem to “White Man’s Burden”. –Speak from the colonized peoples’ perspective to the Americans or the poet. –Do your best to somewhat imitate the structure of the poem as best you can (7 stanzas, 6-7 syllable per line, 2nd and 4th lines of each stanza rhyme…)
THURSDAY, January 22, 2015 2.1 Warm up: grammar 2.2Read Equiano: Middle Passage 2.3 “Roots”/HW check 2.4 Slave Trade Gallery Walk 2.5 Mid. Pas Assessment --due Wednesday, 1/28 HOMEWORK: MIDDLE PASSAGE ASSESSMENT--DUE WEDNESDAY (Have idea and start on it by Monday)
TUESDAY, January 20th 2015 1.1 Warm up: Share, turn in Sonnets 1.2 Map Test 1.3 Renaissance: Was it a thing? 1.4 Triangle Trade 1.5 Read Equiano 1.6 Watch Roots HOMEWORK 1.Watch Crash Course: Atlantic Slave Trade 2.Answer CRASH COURSE QUESTIONS! 3.Visit the Tom Feelings Middle Passage website. Click through all the illustrations and read each caption. http://www.juneteenth.com/middlep.htm 4.For each, take 5 bullets of notes on Page 137. 5.Next, choose a powerful passage from Equiano’s account of the Middle Passage and write a written response to it OR illustrate the passage. Be thoughtful!!!! How can you thoughtfully reflect on the tragedy of the Middle Passage through a left side entry?