1. What is civilization?
2. What would be needed to create a civilization? 3. How would you measure the greatness of a civilization?
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Design Challenge Test Day is finally here!!! Science: Students received their tests from before the break. Most did quite well. It was rather repetitive in nature but this was done to hammer the concept home. Math 7: Test has been scheduled for Thursday, see notes below. Language Arts: Bionic Project is due Tuesday. Question: What is a question that you would like to be asked on the website? Only critical thinking questions will be seriously considered. Parents, feel free to contribute as well. Orphan Island:
"Back at the fire circle, Jinny opened the book, cradling its worn spine in one hand as she turned the soft, crumbling pages with the other. All the kids knew to be careful with the books. They were swollen, faded, eaten by the salt air and the grit of sand, not to mention so many grubby, grabbing fingers. When a book died, there was nothing to be done about it. The kids could only bury it in the sandy earth beyond the book cabin door and try to remember the story. They marked these little graves with the biggest shells they could find. It made a funny sort of garden. Jinny wondered, whenever she walked between the carefully placed shells, what books there had been before she came to the island. What stories were planted in the ground that had died before she got there. Books she’d never know, their pictures disintegrating in the earth, their characters gone forever. It was a funny thought, strange to imagine the bright stories in the dark ground, surrounded by scuttles and bugs." Question: What do you think the author is doing in these to paragraphs and why do you think it is significant for the story? Math 7: Pg. 168-169 Q. 1-9. Unit Test Thursday. Design Challenge: Test Tomorrow. Write up is due next Tuesday. Language Arts: Bionic Assignments are due next Tuesday. Orphan Island: I have several copies arriving today and students will be able to borrow them to get caught up in the event that we read some of the novel while they are away. For those in band this morning, they will need to read from 47-52 to get caught up.
Math 7: There is a worksheet on circle graphs that is to be done for Monday. We will be doing review on both Monday and Tuesday for a Unit Test on Monday. Know your formulas! Design Challenge: Our classroom is almost beginning to look like a classroom again! The recycle center will be closed on Tuesday after we test the designs. The write up will be due on Monday, January 28th. Language Arts: Students are working on the final assignment for Bionic which will also be due on Monday, January 28th. Students should get a head start on some of the work before they get close to the deadline. Goals: We did some of the work on our goals today. Parents, please have a quick chat with your child about their goal! Please answer the question in a minimum of 5 sentences. Question: How important is play in living a healthy and fulfilling life? Orphan Island: We have started reading the novel. Here is the description from the back of the novel.
On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect the nine children who live there; when they go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joyful hearts. Only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them--and taking the eldest one away, never to return. Math 7: Students wrote a quiz today. Language Arts: Students are working on their projects from the previous novel that we read as a class, Bionic. Design Challenge: Students are working their Marble Rollercoasters which has left our room a bit of a disaster area. So, to try and reclaim the class, I am giving them ample time this week and we will be testing next Tuesday. Never a big one with cardboard again..... Question: Be sure to address all three questions with a minimum of 5 sentences as your response (not 5 sentences per question). Imagine what it would be like to live in a place with only kids, no adults. How would this be fun? How might it be challenging? What sorts of things do kids not have to worry about because adults handle them? |
Mr. Western
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