This is one of my favorite ever photos I have taken, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Today in class, we held our own version!
Dear students,
Welcome back from your extended weekend! It was so great to see you all today and to have a little fun after the stress of progress reports and grades by opening the walls with Mr. Puterbaugh next door. Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 2: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the role and impacts of social hierarchies.
Soundtrack: "You Are My Sunshine" by Ray Charles. Selected for today because I was listening to this song on the flight home from Chicago and it reminded me of how much I missed you all! Lyrics here.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the role and impacts of social hierarchies.
Soundtrack: "You Are My Sunshine" by Ray Charles. Selected for today because I was listening to this song on the flight home from Chicago and it reminded me of how much I missed you all! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/13/18:
News Brief - Gaby
DBQ Grades
Narrative Writing/Peer Review
Work Time
Olympics
The next news brief is assigned to: Zion.
We also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class over the weekend.
Zion was selected to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
DBQ Grades: Next, Mr. Puterbaugh and I talked about how we graded the Native American DBQs and what we were looking for with each learning target. These scores were included in your progress report grades. We hope these make sense! If you have any questions about your DBQ, please come by to see one of us in Lower North Teacher Cluster during lunch, Study Hall, or after school. Please also remember that you have multiple other opportunities on each of these learning targets this semester.
Narrative Writing/Peer Review: Last week, we did an activity of identifying the roles of Ally, Bystander, Perpetrator, and Victim in a narrative story that had something to do with the idea of justice. The stories that we analyzed are here:
The first page in the linked document is what students were filling out as we read the stories and thought about times in their own lives that they had been one of the roles in the stories. Here was the assignment that students had due today (this is also posted in Google Classroom):
Today in class, we continued working on this narrative writing by looking at a check list that Mr. Puterbaugh had most students work with last year, found here:
We wanted students to see ways to revise their Writing for Justice assignment and had students have their narrative peer reviewed with a partner or group. Please remember that these stories are sometimes challenging to tell and hear, and so confidentiality is very important.
Work Time: The rest of the first period was devoted to working on revising the Writing for Justice narratives. I must say that I have *really* enjoyed reading these first drafts and I am so proud of the work students have already put into these.
Olympics: For the second half of the combined class, we wanted to have some fun, realizing that we have not done some community building for a while and that students were understandably stressed with progress report grades. So, Mr. Puterbaugh and I created various group activities that we called the Olympics! Thank you for your good humor and participation in these! It's so great to come to class and work with all of you. See you Thursday - remember to complete your revised Writing for Justice narrative before class!
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