Tuesday, January 31, 2012

After - Final Project

Just another example of how great our students are with thinking outside the box. Below is a project Rupa completed for me. She wanted to you Prezi which is a great online presentation website and we worked together to create a rubric to meet her needs! She told what happens after the book using this cool format! Enjoy!!!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Cay - Final Project options & rubrics

The Cay Final Project

Friday, January 13, 2012

Project Rubrics for Next Weeks Advanced Reading Classes 01/16-01/20

The Christopher Killer - Final Project Options


After - Final Project

Friday, January 6, 2012

Week of January 9-13

I am so impressed with the 7th grade, they came back to school ready to learn and jumped back into the year without a problem. Not once did a students say they were tired or wished they were still on winter break! What an excellent group!

Advanced LA
Students have spent the first week back from break selecting a topic and researching in class. Next week students will continue to research, outline and writing a rough draft for an argumentative essay! These essays are persuasive but also include the opposition in a separate paragraph. Project Challenge students in period 2 will be debating their topics in 2 weeks. Instead of writing an essay they will be modeling the debate format which is similar to the one used in 8th grade for the 60s unit! I can't wait for some great debates!

Advanced Reading - Period 4
We will finish reading The Christopher Killer next week. Students checked out books today for their next book report - a book mosaic! I will post the assignment next week. Students were given the handout of the assignment today in case you want to see it before I post. As we end the book, students will complete a final project where the majority will be done here at school. The project will be explained on Wednesday, followed with IMC time for 5 class periods.

Advanced Reading - Period 6
Students will complete the novel After next week. Many have read ahead on their own...some will be surprised, shocked and/or disappointed with the ending. Have no fear, they will be working on a final project that can let them resolve some of their "mixed" feelings about the book! Students also selected the next book for their book report which is linked directly to our class novel. Students will compare ideas from their book to After and create a "book" report to demonstrate understanding. Students were given copies of the report assignment in class today, but I will also post them to the blog next week!

LA 7
Students turned in their persuasive essays which we began working on before winter break. I can't wait to read them! We have been working hard this week on writing short speeches. Students interviewed a classmate and then created a scenario in which the classmate would be honored or a speaker of an event. These students are very creative and have vivid imaginations! Speeches will be Monday & Tuesday of next week. They should be practicing over the weekend!!!

Reading 8
We are continuing our novel The Cay. Timothy and Phillip are preparing for a hurricane coming to the island! I wonder what will become of them! Next Friday the students will have a quiz over chapters 9-16. They will need to review vocabulary and their chapter 9-16 discussion questions.