Mar. 7 - Mar. 11 - We will be defining, analyzing, and, comparing and contrasting various types of propaganda. Students will be watching and comparing the Holocaust to a classroom experiment done many year ago called the Brown Eyed, Blue Eyed Experiment.
Feb. 29 - Mar. 4 - Students will be participating in a state MAP assessment practice on Monday and Tuesday. Students will turn in their research/informative paper Monday, Feb. 29th/Tuesday, March 1st. Students will be analyzing and comparing/contrasting propaganda from Germany and US during the Holocaust.
Feb. 22 - Feb. 26 - Students will continue working on their Writing Small and turn it in on Tuesday the 23rd. They will also begin selecting a Holocaust topic to begin researching at the end of the week. The will use their summarizing strategies and skills to write a 2 -3 page research paper on a Holocaust topic of their choosing.
Feb. 15 - Feb. 19 - Students will begin the Writing Small Assessment using an image of their choosing. They will be expected to write a very short, 75 - 100 words, narrative from a perspective of their choosing about their image. The paper is due Tuesday, February 23rd.
Feb. 8 - Feb. 12 - Students are going to be starting their Writing Small Assessment. Writing Small is a very short descriptive/narrative about one image from the Holocaust. Students will be researching images for the assessment. They need to have an image selected by Friday, February 12th. Students will read and comprehend grade level text - this will be in the from of various short articles from the Holocaust period. They will practice summarizing the most important events from each article.
Feb 1 - Feb. 5 - Midterm is on Friday, February 5th, so students will have an opportunity to assess on theme and conventions this week. These will continue to be assessed throughout the semester, if you have any thoughts, questions, or concerns, please contact me. We will be taking a virtual "fieldtrip" through the annex in Amsterdam. We will continue to read various texts and practice effective summarizing skills.
Jan. 25 - Jan 29 - We will be finishing up the play, The Diary of Anne Frank. Students will work on analyzing theme in various texts. We will be reading various articles and synthesizing the information to deepen our understanding of the reading and the text relationship's to theme. Students will also practice summarizing, and they will apply this skill in a future research writing projects. We are also working on conventions in writing - students will be working on a Daily Language Practice and at the end of each week students will be assessed by applying the skills discussed and practiced on a short paragraph.
Jan. 18 - Jan 22 - We will continue reading the Diary of Anne Frank. Student will summarize scenes from the play and make inferences about theme using details to support their answers.
Jan 11 - Jan 15 - We will begin reading the play the Diary of Anne Frank. Students will use the text to work on summarizing and analyzing the text to determine an implied theme.
Jan. 6 - Jan. 8 - We will begin our next unit called Repeating the Past. Students will be discussing and answer our big idea questions: Can we learn from our mistakes? How do our current choices and decisions impact our future generations? What impact will you have on the world? and It can't happen here can it? We will using various resources for our discussion and research: reading the play The Diary of Anne Frank, watching various video clips from documentaries and interviews of Holocaust survivors.
Feb. 29 - Mar. 4 - Students will be participating in a state MAP assessment practice on Monday and Tuesday. Students will turn in their research/informative paper Monday, Feb. 29th/Tuesday, March 1st. Students will be analyzing and comparing/contrasting propaganda from Germany and US during the Holocaust.
Feb. 22 - Feb. 26 - Students will continue working on their Writing Small and turn it in on Tuesday the 23rd. They will also begin selecting a Holocaust topic to begin researching at the end of the week. The will use their summarizing strategies and skills to write a 2 -3 page research paper on a Holocaust topic of their choosing.
Feb. 15 - Feb. 19 - Students will begin the Writing Small Assessment using an image of their choosing. They will be expected to write a very short, 75 - 100 words, narrative from a perspective of their choosing about their image. The paper is due Tuesday, February 23rd.
Feb. 8 - Feb. 12 - Students are going to be starting their Writing Small Assessment. Writing Small is a very short descriptive/narrative about one image from the Holocaust. Students will be researching images for the assessment. They need to have an image selected by Friday, February 12th. Students will read and comprehend grade level text - this will be in the from of various short articles from the Holocaust period. They will practice summarizing the most important events from each article.
Feb 1 - Feb. 5 - Midterm is on Friday, February 5th, so students will have an opportunity to assess on theme and conventions this week. These will continue to be assessed throughout the semester, if you have any thoughts, questions, or concerns, please contact me. We will be taking a virtual "fieldtrip" through the annex in Amsterdam. We will continue to read various texts and practice effective summarizing skills.
Jan. 25 - Jan 29 - We will be finishing up the play, The Diary of Anne Frank. Students will work on analyzing theme in various texts. We will be reading various articles and synthesizing the information to deepen our understanding of the reading and the text relationship's to theme. Students will also practice summarizing, and they will apply this skill in a future research writing projects. We are also working on conventions in writing - students will be working on a Daily Language Practice and at the end of each week students will be assessed by applying the skills discussed and practiced on a short paragraph.
Jan. 18 - Jan 22 - We will continue reading the Diary of Anne Frank. Student will summarize scenes from the play and make inferences about theme using details to support their answers.
Jan 11 - Jan 15 - We will begin reading the play the Diary of Anne Frank. Students will use the text to work on summarizing and analyzing the text to determine an implied theme.
Jan. 6 - Jan. 8 - We will begin our next unit called Repeating the Past. Students will be discussing and answer our big idea questions: Can we learn from our mistakes? How do our current choices and decisions impact our future generations? What impact will you have on the world? and It can't happen here can it? We will using various resources for our discussion and research: reading the play The Diary of Anne Frank, watching various video clips from documentaries and interviews of Holocaust survivors.