Wednesday and Thursday

Last night, students should have read through page 46 and added a dialectical journal entry including important characters and events, as well as at least two says/means/matters. In class Thursday, we added another SMM and a summary. The reading schedule and DJ assignment are available at Google Classroom.

Staring Speak

After a review of our semester 2 goals, we started the novel speak. The reading schedule and DJ assignment are available at Google Classroom. Tonight, students should read through page 24 and do a dialectical journal entry including important characters and events, as well as at least two says/means/matters.

Issues for Speak

We spent today preparing for our next novel, which we checked out, by writing and talking about the questions below.

Art Thing

Today we finished up the notes on cliques and students just scratched the surface of an art project we will be doing after break.

More Notes

Today we finished (or nearly did) Cornell notes on the cliques article.

From Mascots to Cliques

We began the day by wrapping up our discussion of the mascots controversy with a cartoon analysis and a bit of writing.

We then moved on to a discussion of cliques, setting up some Cornell notes which we will complete Thursday.

Mascot Notes

Today students finished up their notes on "Insult or Honor?" annotating and summarizing their Cornell notes.

Mascots Notes

Today we read and took notes on this article, making sure to start with a correct works cited and a good essential question.

Semester One Reflection

Over the past few days, we have spent some time reflecting on semester one and preparing for semester two. Tuesday, we visited the concept of Growth Mindset (here are some excellent video resources), and Wednesday, we began making goals for the second semester with this concept in mind.