Current Events Assignment: Core

Good Morning,

Please finish typing and then turn in your "How To Paragraph"
When you are done, complete the current events assignment

For this assignment you need to:

1. Watch the CNN Student News from October 29, 2013 (use headphones)

2. Answer the questions on your handout as you watch

3. Choose one of the stories from the news that you would like to work more with, click the link of the story below that you are interested in. Use the story to complete the rest of your current events handout

Story #1: Epic Weather in Europe  OR St. Jude Day Storm
Story #2: Hurricane Sandy Anniversary 
Story #3: 2014 Winter Olympics

4. finished? turn in your CE assignment to Miss Bryant AND THEN: Watch today's CNN Student News (use headphones), work on WW#5, read quietly or practice keyboarding

Looking to practice your keyboarding skills?

Try these sites:

1. Learning Games for Kids
2. Keybr
3. Fingerjig

This Week in Room 103

Core
Monday: WW#5, edit "How to" paragraph, Chapter 1 Section 1 notes
Tuesday: Type "How to" paragraph, Chapter 1 Section 1 quiz, Chapter 1 Section 2 notes
Wednesday: Finish paragraphs (Due!!!), Chapter 1 Section 2 notes
Thursday: Chapter 1 Section 2 quiz, Chapter 1 Section 3 notes, adjective review
Friday: WW#5 due, WW#5 test, Chapter 1 Section 3 notes

Reading 6
Tuesday and Thursday: informational text

Reading 8
Monday and Wednesday: African Elephants
Friday: Reading Circuit

WCP
Monday: MVPG meet with WCP
Tuesday - Thursday: Committee Work
Friday: BB

Culture Graphic: Due Monday, October 28

What is an infographic?

I am admittedly, a little obsessed with data visualization. Making information visually appealing, making it BEAUTIFUL. According to Wikipedia, "Today information graphics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form, and act as a visual shorthand for everyday concepts such as stop and go."

You may find yourself saying "huh?!" But what this means is that we can learn, and study information and data in a fun and visual way. We can make our information diagrams into works of art. We can create projects, presentations and ways that show that we have learned that are amazingly complex, detailed and actually beautiful.  We can take information that might otherwise be overwhelming and in some cases difficult to understand and make it easy to read, understand and learn from.

What does this have to do with my Culture Quiz-ito?!
Well...we created a very, very basic information graphic in class on Tuesday when we made our Culture Web. For the quiz-ito you can recreate that web from memory, or choose to show that you know that information by showcasing it in another way. To get started, you may want to look at thePeriodic Table of Visualization (just mouse over the "elements" to see some of the many ways people visualize data). Remember...you can choose any visualization method that you want but there are some that are better suited for this job than others for example: cluster/web, tree, treemap, cone tree, data-flow, mind map...and more! Need more ideas? Click Here 

Ok, I can do this. BUT, I lost/can't find/would like to see the original Culture Web again?
Here it is(remember, some social scientists agree to 4 elements, some to 6 and others 8, also the branches overlap and may include things not listed below):

Elements of culture web

please click/enlarge view all of the elements clearly

How to Paragraph

How to Paragraph FINAL draft is due WEDNESDAY, October 30th How to Packet

Having trouble with the first 3 pages of the How to Packet?

This video (please ignore the dates in the video), can provide you with a little help.

This Week in Room 103

Core
Goals due Tuesday
Culture Infographic due Monday, October 28th

6th grade Reading
Dragon Dragon

8th grade Reading
Medicine Bag 

WCP
Boo Ball & Pink Signs due Wednesday

Reading 8: Plot Structure Notes

Quiz on Wednesday

Deadlines October 14-18

Core
Monday: Create a Country due, Adjective Packet due
Thursday: Adjectives Quiz
Friday: WW #4 packet due and test

6th grade Reading
Thursday: Ta-Na-E-Ka Test

8th grade Reading
no tests this week

Wildcat Pride
Wednesday: Mini Incentive supplies due
Thursday: Mini Incentive dry run
Friday: MINI INCENTIVE

Retake Deadlines
October 16: WW #3
October 16: Landforms
October 18: Ped Spelling
October 18: Ped Vocab

Deadline extended!

Please note that the deadline for the Create a Country project has been extended to Monday, October 14th

This Week in Room 103

6th grade Core: Create a Country due Thursday, spelling and vocab test on Thursday (man/manu)
 
6th Reading: Ta-Na-E-Ka (assessment will be Tuesday, October 15)

8th Reading: Close reading activities 

Wildcat Pride: Incentive Prep

Spelling & Vocab Test this THURSDAY

 

• emancipate  v. - To set free, the way Abe Lincoln emancipated the slaves during the Civil War, he took them out of the hands of their masters.
• manacles n. - Well, we say handcuffs, but I like manacles better as a way of describing that gilhickie that holds a thief's hands together.
• manager n. - This is the person who has the running of the store, the shop, the city in his or her hands; when I like what an employee does, I tell his or her manager.
• mandate n. - This is an imperative or a rule put into your hands that you must follow and enforce; a law, or an order that must be obeyed.
• maneuver n., v. - To skillfully or handily avoid an obstacle, go around something adroitly. (Oops! Droit is a French root. We'll get to that later.
• manicure n., v. - This is a pedicure for your hands. Didn't think this weeks words had any connection to last weeks words, didja?
• manipulate v. - To modify skillfully by hand;
• manual n., adj. - A handbook of instructions or guidelines for a process or piece of equipment; to be operated by hand, as in manual transmission; manually, adv. - done by hand.
• manufacture v. - to make by hand or produce with machines; to convert raw material into a product.
• manuscript n. - a book, article, or paper that is not yet published; it can be either typed or handwritten.

Core: Thursday to-do list

Responding to Literature

Due Thursday when you come through the door:

*Use Write Source book if you get stuck

1. Create a cluster of important events from the story (at least 5), use page 285 if needed

2. Choose one of the events and write a response paragraph (must have topic sentence, body and a closing), use page 286 if needed

6th grade Core: Spelling Week 1

Our root this week: ped = foot

This week's vocab and spelling words: 

1. biped: a creature with two feet
2. centipede: a creature with 100 feet
3. impediment: something that stands in one's way; an obstacle
4. millipede: a creature with 1000 feet 
5. pedal: a lever that is moved with one's feet
6. peddler: a person who goes from door to door on foot trying to sell a product
7. pedestrian: a person who walks across the street on foot
8. pedicure: a foot treatment that could include soaking feet and polishing the toenails
9. quadruped: a four-footed  creature
10. tripod: a three-footed stand often used to balance a camera 

Test on FRIDAY, October 4th (student's will need to know the definition AND how to spell each word, as well as the root and what it means)

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Source: words and handouts for vocabulary are from the Learning Works publication: Greek and Latin Roots: Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension by Trisha Callela

Applicable Standards:

 L.6.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

L.6.6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Applicable Targets:

I know the parts of a word

I can choose and use an appropriate resource when acquiring new vocabulary

I can describe the relationship between particular words

I can spell the word correctly

This Week in Room 103

Core
Due Wednesday: Detective, Create a Country Planning sheet, SSR Book

6th grade Reading
Due Friday: "Eleven" name/sentence assessment

8th grade Reading
Due Thursday: Close reading of "6 dangerous bites"