Week of January 12 - 16, 2015

Friday HW
I asked the students to find a 30 to 60 second advertisement in which they were interested to be able to write about in class.  They should know all the details of the events of characters in a sequence as well as the product being sold.

Wednesday HW
1.  We have a data management quiz on line graphs and interpreting data on Friday January 16.  A study sheet will be provided on Thursday.
2.  Many more students were prepared for the Story of Stuff work periods we had today.  Thank you!  I asked students to think about the environmental impact of their object and jot down three ideas in their agendas.  Examples and some guiding questions are in the booklet.

Tuesday HW
1.  MMS 5.6.  Today was the last lesson on Data Management in this unit.  We will be starting work on Number Sense (Decimals) this week.
2.  20 of 29 students were prepared for today's Story of Stuff research note taking period.  The other nine either left their notes at home or 'forgot' to locate any material over the past seven days.  The due date is next Thursday January 22, which leaves little time for delays like this.  I attempted to phone or write notes for as many students as I could when I noticed they were unprepared.  Today we worked on the elements of an interesting introduction and created a 4 level description of the range of lead-off sentences.  We will try again tomorrow to work on the "Extraction" and "Production" portions of the Story.

Monday HW
1. Tomorrow is a Story of Stuff day.  Students should come to school with research material (from the web, from a library) so that they can begin composing the five paragraphs they need to describe the stages of transformation into the final product chosen by the student.  Students have seen many examples of completed work and should be able to predict and deliver the length of the finished product on an 18 X 24 page.
2.  Your Citizen profile should be done in rough form in the Social Studies booklet.  This should be a creation of yours of a leading citizen in the field of Art, Music, Sport or Leadership in your created country.