Question of the Day

On the YELLOW CARD

Write:
A book recommendation that Mrs. Phippen should have in the classroom for you to read.

Would you like to have Scholastic book club orders?

The Legacy Project

You will create 3 items for this project:

✿ The first item has a personal motto on it. It can be in the shape of a tombstone, grave, marker, flag, shield, t-shirt, or uniform, but it must bear your “crest” with the motto.
✿ The second item will be footsteps. You will trace your own footsteps, and you will have a flip chart of footsteps. Inside the flip chart, you will have the people who follow in your footsteps and what they see. You will also have other footsteps, larger or smaller, of the influential people YOU follow who have impacted where your own feet have walked.
✿ The third item will be what you want to be remembered for. What will your legacy be? Will it be like Mr. Manning’s ducks? Or Mrs. Phippen’s pink? Or Mrs. Bullock’s love of books? Will it be like Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse or DisneyLand? Or Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Dream.” What will your legacy be? This can be an object, an idea, or place, but you must bring some item to represent it, to symbolize it, and you must be able to explain it.
This project will be due
December 5th for A days
& December 6th for B days.

Book Write #1 Questions

If you are missing your first book write, please answer the following questions in full sentences, using paragraphs.

Paragraph one: 

Why did you choose your book? Why this particular book?

Tell me about the process you went through to find your book, get the book itself, and then bring to class. 

Paragraph two:

How do you know this book is on your reading level? Will this book be a S-T-R-E-T-C-H for you? Why? or why not? How long do you think it will take you to read?

Paragraph three:

What do you already know about your book? What kind of book is it? (Genre) What do you know about your author? Have you read anything else by your author?

What did we do today?

You should now have turned in Article of the Week #1. See the post below if you have lost your copy.

You should have received Article of the Week #2. It is on GREEN paper, and it is due 11/13 (B) or 11/14 (A). It is called "Civil War vet finally to be laid to rest" and is about Peter Jones Knapp.

Here is a youtube.com video about it.

Directions for article of the week are these:

1. Read the entire article.

2. MARK the article and comment, make connections, question, and predictions, etc. as you read. This is called annotating.

3. Talk about the article with someone else.

4. Write a paper about the article. 

• The paper should have a CLAIM
• 3 paragraphs
• Each paragraph should have 2 pieces of evidence (details, facts, quotes, etc.)
• Each piece of evidence should have some warrant (explanation) to back it up.
• There should be a concluding statement.

You should also have notes on "Meditation 17." (We have reviewed this twice).

You should have notes on "The Bells" (we took these and reviewed these for 2 days).

You should have a timeline we will continue to work on.

Calendar and other things

Here's a list of new items:
November 1 & 4
We discussed
Meditation 17  and "The Bells" and "I am a Rock" (Yes, by Simon & Garfunkle).

Tomorrow, the homework is THIS article of the week called "Losing is good for you" from the New York Times.

Due November 5th for B days and November 6th for A days!