See this example of a fun poem click here. Thanks Lily Seattle.
Check if you are on track? Speech: Topic is clear...you are persuading or convincing others something you feel strongly about. You have 2-3 key points. Each point has supporting details, examples and facts eg. research questions to find data, authentic examples You are starting to write your draft - at least one paragraph for each main point. Socials: You have discussed your action plan and presentation with The Boss. You have the criteria (see socials outline) to follow. If you are presenting a role play, animoto or personal narrative, you have started writing what you will be saying.(use your facts that you researched to include all the important information but remember you are the actual child) You have started your action plan such as writing a letter, designing an imovie, animoto, prezi, guest speaker, taking a local action, etc. You are deciding on your text and images. Due: March 8th Band tomorrow!
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Anti-bullying day today. I can't wait to read your poems! Listen to the poem by Shane Koyczan. It is a long poem but truly captures the lasting impact a bully can have on individuals. (You have seen his slam poem presentation at the Olympics in Vancouver on our class site when we began our unit) Thanks Mr. Hong for telling me about this poem. I have copied the words below. This also gives you an idea of how you can present your poetry. Find or write your own favourite anti-bullying slogan here: Mine is 'It isn't big to make others feel small'. Homework: Edit your drafts of your bullying poems for tomorrow. Last review tonight for ratio/percent final unit test for grade 6's (see me tomorrow morning early if you still have questions. Gr. 7's see Mrs. Middleton. Continue working on your socials presentations, action plans and speech writing. To This Day by Shane KoyczanTo This Day When I was a kid I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing I thought they were both pork chops and because my grandmother thought it was cute and because they were my favourite she let me keep doing it not really a big deal one day before I realized fat kids are not designed to climb trees I fell out of a tree and bruised the right side of my body I didn’t want to tell my grandmother about it because I was afraid I’d get in trouble for playing somewhere that I shouldn’t have been a few days later the gym teacher noticed the bruise and I got sent to the principal’s office from there I was sent to another small room with a really nice lady who asked me all kinds of questions about my life at home I saw no reason to lie as far as I was concerned life was pretty good I told her “whenever I’m sad my grandmother gives me karate chops” this led to a full scale investigation and I was removed from the house for three days until they finally decided to ask how I got the bruises news of this silly little story quickly spread through the school and I earned my first nickname pork chop to this day I hate pork chops I’m not the only kid who grew up this way surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called and we got called them all so we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us that we’d be lonely forever that we’d never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their tool shed so broken heart strings bled the blues as we tried to empty ourselves so we would feel nothing don’t tell me that hurts less than a broken bone that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away that there’s no way for it to metastasize it does she was eight years old our first day of grade three when she got called ugly we both got moved to the back of the class so we would stop get bombarded by spit balls but the school halls were a battleground where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day we used to stay inside for recess because outside was worse outside we’d have to rehearse running away or learn to stay still like statues giving no clues that we were there in grade five they taped a sign to her desk that read beware of dog to this day despite a loving husband she doesn’t think she’s beautiful because of a birthmark that takes up a little less than half of her face kids used to say she looks like a wrong answer that someone tried to erase but couldn’t quite get the job done and they’ll never understand that she’s raising two kids whose definition of beauty begins with the word mom because they see her heart before they see her skin that she’s only ever always been amazing he was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree adopted but not because his parents opted for a different destiny he was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy started therapy in 8th grade had a personality made up of tests and pills lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs four fifths suicidal a tidal wave of anti depressants and an adolescence of being called popper one part because of the pills and ninety nine parts because of the cruelty he tried to kill himself in grade ten when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him “get over it” as if depression is something that can be remedied by any of the contents found in a first aid kit to this day he is a stick on TNT lit from both ends could describe to you in detail the way the sky bends in the moments before it’s about to fall and despite an army of friends who all call him an inspiration he remains a conversation piece between people who can’t understand sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity we weren’t the only kids who grew up this way to this day kids are still being called names the classics were hey stupid hey spaz seems like each school has an arsenal of names getting updated every year and if a kid breaks in a school and no one around chooses to hear do they make a sound? are they just the background noise of a soundtrack stuck on repeat when people say things like kids can be cruel? every school was a big top circus tent and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers from clowns to carnies all of these were miles ahead of who we were we were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies oddities juggling depression and loneliness playing solitaire spin the bottle trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal but at night while the others slept we kept walking the tightrope it was practice and yeah some of us fell but I want to tell them that all of this shit is just debris leftover when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself get a better mirror look a little closer stare a little longer because there’s something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit you built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself you signed it “they were wrong” because maybe you didn’t belong to a group or a click maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball or everything maybe you used to bring bruises and broken teeth to show and tell but never told because how can you hold your ground if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it you have to believe that they were wrong they have to be wrong why else would we still be here? we grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them we stem from a root planted in the belief that we are not what we were called we are not abandoned cars stalled out and sitting empty on a highway and if in some way we are don’t worry we only got out to walk and get gas we are graduating members from the class of fuck off we made it not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me of course they did but our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty. 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Bring all books and work to class each day please. You cannot use class time effectively when you don't have your things here. Cupcakes tomorrow...bring $1 Field trip form Homework: Math gr. 7's worksheet #6,7,9,11,12,13 gr. 6's Practice for your test of Thursday (choose questions in your text to practice as well as today's 'test yourself' sheet. Be sure to show how you know answers: -your number line questions eg.80% of 40 Show how you estimate. -equivalent fractions/decimals/percents -scale ratio eg. height of chair is 2 cm in a diagram, what is real life height if scale is 1cm:25cm? -draw a diagram to show % of number eg. 50% of 80 is 40. -find equivalent ratios (higher and lowest terms) -ratio problems -percent problems Socials -work on action plan and presentation (due end of next week) Writing -work on speech (add supporting details) Homework:
Put your 'next steps' for science on your personal site (under science or reflection) Show parents your science test, ask them to sign it and return to me tomorrow. Math gr.6's review for final test on Thursday...be prepared to ask any questions that you have tomorrow. gr. 7's pg. 177-8 #2-20 Speech: add supporting details to your speech, continue working on your draft Inline skating Feb. 28th Field trip notices re: snowshoeing Cupcake sale to support Haiti (Think We) Whew! What a busy week!
Enjoy the weekend but spend some time thinking about how you are representing your socials content. Remember you are the child doing this job. How will you inform your audience? It can be anything from a role play to a written and recited personal narrative. Also think of an action plan. Have a look at some of your solutions already in your notes and see if you would like to follow through with any of those ideas. Start planning this. Math...gr. 7's correct test and have parents sign gr. 6's pg. 204 #10-16 Speech- write down your 2-3 main points for your topic and start list supporting details for these points. We will finish Wonder next week. How do you want to represent our learning for this book? Cupcake sale on Wed, Feb. 27th. Bring a loonie to support the Think We Haiti fundraiser. Science quiz tomorrow (Yes...you wanted to keep reading Wonder!)
Tomorrow will be our last day of Wonder...any ideas of how we could represent our learning. Math gr. 6 pg.204 #10-16 7's pg.172 #4-8, 10, 11 Speech - narrow your topic, list key points Some of you have decided to revise and redo your poetry. Good for you for wanting to improve the quality of your work. This is due tomorrow. Homework:
Math 6's pg.203 #1, 4-8 Science quiz on matter tomorrow Change your speech topic if you wish. Comment here about how you can improve your poetry presentation for your next two poems. Think about the ones you heard today and what you liked about some of them. Thank you to those who shared their speech topics...some great ideas! What about the rest of you! That was fun in line skating today. Way to go! See below for more pics! Math: 6's pg.201 #4,5 Poetry: Complete your three poems. Also be prepared to share your poems tomorrow...whether it is reading from a poster, voice thread, sharing an animoto or a dramatization of your poems. Practice reading them to yourself tonight and we will have time for at least one each tomorrow. Socials: Email me your completed notes with resources tonight or tomorrow by the end of lunch. Include: -all point form notes (answers to questions on child labour criteria sheet) (Be sure to number your notes and the numbers should coincide with the question numbers) -2 highlighted examples of how you changed original writing into your own words in point form...copy and paste original writing you got from your website, highlight it in a colour, highlight using the same colour how you wrote it in your words - prove that all your sources are reliable/ not reliable (see google docs below or on email) Child Labour Project (step one - point form notes and resources) Due Feb. 20th Create a doc, copy and paste this page, then complete the following and email to me. Learning Intention: I can evaluate the credibility and reliability of selected sources. A) Copy and paste your resources where your notes are, then complete the following information for each: <web address> author title of article copyright date (if there is one) information about the author(s)/website (look for ‘about us’) why you believe this is a reliable site Learning Intention: I can address a selected global issue. I can use my own words to retell what I have researched. A) Copy and paste your resources here then complete the following information for each: <web address> author title of article copyright date (if there is one) information about the author(s)/website (look for ‘about us’) why you believe this is a reliable site B) Give 2 examples of how you give information in your own words: Example One: 1. Copy and paste one of your resources here: 2. From your notes, copy and paste 1 example of how you used your own words. Copy and paste the exact part from your resource underneath. Example Two: 3. Repeat #1 and #2 to give a 2nd example of how you used your own words. Remember inline skating tomorrow so bring your helmets.
You have an extra day for note taking so child labour notes due Wed. Your 3 poems are also due on Wed. How are you going to present? Give your idea on this site. Also let's share your speech topics here. What topic are you choosing for your speech? Science quiz on Matter on Thursday. (anything to do with measuring or what matter ) Math gr. 6's pg. 198 #5-8 gr. 7's see Ms M site. We missed you yesterday Muffinman but congratulations on the wrestling.
A couple of you left your planners in the class and one left your poetry criteria. If you need to ask questions about your homework, do it here. Homework: Math: 6's pg 197 #2,3,4 7's worksheet Socials: You need to spend most of your time answering the questions you have left for your child labour project. Use the sources I sent you or choose reliable sources. Remember to record your bibliography information. All point form notes are due Feb. 19th. (Tuesday) I asked you to fill out the form with your learning intentions and questions...most of you forgot the form so let's answer that here. What do you think the learning intention is and if you are unclear of what is expected, ask your questions here in order for other students or myself to answer them. Poetry: Your final 3 poems are due next Wednesday. See your criteria. |
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