Stations 0131 - 020614

Get this page as a handout here

1. Arabic Coinage reading - images of humans restrictions

• read the article
• outline the article - as a group divide the article into separate paragraphs per person
• underline and include 6 terms that need definition in your notes

2. Grammar - 3- 42, 43: Thesis Statement and Developing Idea

3. Chapter 9 - How do the principles of Islam relate to me individually -

• write about 2- 3 sentences each
• Respond to the idea of each section in Ch 9 (p93 - chart)
• 9.2 - an important personal event
• 9.3 - an important book/movie in your life - explain why
• 9.4 - an important guiding principle for your life
• 9.5 - an important daily ritual of your life - habit, eating a certain meal, doing homework
• 9.6 - what is something that you like to do for other people
• 9.7 - how do you reflect upon your own behavior for yourself
• 9.8 - where have you been or like to go that is really an important place or memory
• 9.9 - personal struggle - how do you deal with personal issues that you want to do better at
• 9.10 - what is the most important law that you feel benefits society

4. Isearch - Hook Off and write your thesis in

5. Modern Middle East map -

• Quiz  2/6/14
• Draw an outline political map of modern Arab and Muslim nations of Africa and central Asia
• Complete the assignment on the target map - get a copy here
• Use these two source outline maps to figure out what Muslim and Arab nations to include
• map 1 - Africa and the Mideast
• map 2 - Mideast and central Asia
• Title the map - Muslim nations of Africa and Asia
• 1. Ink outlines, 2. nation label in ink, 3. color in different colors for each adjoining nation. 4. Label water, but do not color. 5. Label the rest of each continent, color the rest of land a neutral color (brown, gray, etc.)

Additions -
1. Ch 9 notes (table)
2. Study for a Ch 8 - 9 Quizlet (20 points) - 2/11/14
3. Guild Level Three - Day: 2/10 - 2/11/14
4. 18 Isearch notes in class - 2/6/14

HW Week of 012714

Due Thursday 013014
1. 12 Isearch total notes in correct format. Saved in shared Isearch folder. You must do some every night.

• Note Format handout here

a. Last week 6 were due, so 6 more need to be done.
b. On average a note should take about 10 - 15 minutes to find relevant information and fill in the form and write the bibliographic information for each source.

Ch 8/9 question survey

Take the Survey here

If you did not turn in...

Right before Winter Break, students were required to turn in a packet of all available handwritten notes for the previous unit in seventh grade.

If you did not turn these in, please turn them in as soon as possible.

HW due by Thursday

1. 2 stations complete at the beginning of class.
2. 3 notes for I search, in the correct format.

See the stations post for more details.

Stations - LASS7 for the week starting 012114

Station - Week of January 21 - 24, 2014 
(Handout of this page - here)

1 - Personal Essay Reading - 

• Read the excerpt “Me and Bob Hope” From Funny in Farsi aloud as a group.

• Discuss the following questions as a group before individually writing a paragraph responding to these questions --

• Put yourself in her shoes- how would you feel about Christmas if your culture/religion didn’t have a similar celebration? Why does she feel excluded? Cite at least 1 example from the reading.
• Has there ever been a time where you felt out of place or excluded from a group? How did it make you feel?

2 - Grammar - Thesis, Arguments, and supporting arguments.

• Materials - handouts: 3-33, 3-36, 3-37
• As a group complete the two of the individual exercises. Some students may choose to do all three activities - the third activity is worth 5 XC points in LA. 
• Give each other feedback as you work. 
• Once you are finished, decide which one topic that your group could debate, with about half of the group debating the other half. 
• What would this debate look like - 
• as a group write a summary of this mock debate.

3 - SS7 - Text - Chapter 8
Reading. Group task with rotating jobs. Reading divided up into fifths. For each section, each person completes one task. For each following section, each person rotates to a new task each person must complete for the next section.

Summarizer - record clearly stated, explicit information from the story.
Inference Recorder - connect the different pieces of information to find suggested or implicit ideas.
Illustrator - draw pictures of ideas and images as they are presented in the story.
Question Generator - write down questions that come up during the reading, and about the piece of reading overall up to the end of the section from the beginning.
Reader and coach - Read the piece to the group out loud. Help each person complete his or her tasks.

4 Video Clip - National Geographic: Islam
1. Take 10 notes from the video.
2. Write down the ending time where your group stopped.

5. Isearch Activity -

• Note Format handout here
• use the note format handout to take all of your notes. 
• Create a Gdoc text file in the shared Isearch folder for your notes. 
• Do not print unless specified.
• Fill out the form as completely as possible for one idea from a specific source
• All notes must use the same format.
• Ultimately, you must use a minimum of 
• 3 books (or add 3 additional news articles for each book not found)
• 5 news story articles, and 
• 7 websites as different sources.

Google Doc Assignments standards, a reminder...

A gdoc assignment has these requirements:
1. Type the assignment before class starts the day it is due.
2. Share the document with Mr. Rodgers in edit mode.
3. Save the file the name of the assignment.
4. Type a Hall header at the top of the assignment doc - full name, due date, class period.
5. Type the title of the assignment, centered one line below the Hall header.
6. Print the assignment before coming to class.
7. The above list is always required unless stated.


- Posted by Mr. Rodgers

Bring to class on Thursday, 011614

On Thursday, the following things need to be brought to class:
1. All station work, whether it is complete or not. One more station must be completed by the beginning of class.
2. The poem written, typed in gdoc and printed before you come to class. We will work on this poem, and share out some of them.
3. Your non-fiction book. You must complete the survey (scroll down in this blog) before class.
4. Your Isearch topic. You must complete the Isearch survey before class.

Isearch Topic Survey and parent approval due by 011714

Answer the survey about your Isearch (Controversial) topic.

You first should let your parents know what your topic is and the position that you must write about.

Answer this survey by Friday, 011714. Link to survey is here.

Also, parents should email Mr. Rodgers HERE if you feel that the topic may be inappropriate for your son or daughter to examine.

February 7 Field Trip - Asian Art Museum

We are looking for drivers, parents who are willing to fill up the car, SUV, or minivan with your son or daughter's classmates for a trip to the museum.

The trip starts at 11:00 am and we will return by about 3:15 pm on February 7.

Students will be asked to pay five dollars to cover the cost of parking and extra admission costs over our otherwise free allotment.

Permission slips will go out in a week.

If you can drive, please email Mr. Rodgers here

Activities for Week of January 13 - 17.

Here are a list of Station activities that we will start in class on Monday and Tuesday, and finish as homework by Friday, one assignment will be due at the beginning of each day as follows:

Due - Details
0114 - Your first activity started in class on 0113
0115 (0116 for split core) - Your second and third activity started in class on 0113 or 0114
0116 (by end of class) - Your fourth and fifth activity started in class on 0115 or 0116
0117 - Study for Spelling/Vocabulary Test. Finish all station work and other class activities assigned this week.

(If you attended the Fine Arts field trip on Tuesday, you must complete any class work missed in class (station number 2) and turn in on the Block Day.)

Each Station Activity (1-5) is listed below.
You will have between 20 - 30 minutes for each activity in class.
You will work with the same group of students all week at each station.
Do not work ahead on any station activity (except spelling)
You must complete the remaining part of each activity that night for homework.

1. Activities for You Won't Finish this Article
a. Read the article You Won't Finish This Article. 
b. Answer the question on this Google Survey - Won't Finish - you must be signed into your school gmail account to take the survey.


2. Spelling Unit 1 (McMullen - Grammar)
a. Complete the Unit 1 packet. Work with your group on any confusion and difficult questions to help understand the correct answer.
b. Study for the Spelling/Vocabulary Test on Friday
c. The packet will be graded on Thursday, 011614
d. Vocabulary/Spelling Test on 011714

3. SS7 Chapter 7 Activities
a. Read Chapter 7

b. Take notes in list form of all items and their page numbers that must appear on the map as you read.

4. SS7 Chapter 7 Activity (stay at the same table for station 3 and 4)
a. Create a physical map of the Arabian Peninsula
b. Use this target map provided in class or from the link here.

Map requirements:
1. Incorporate all physical features of the Arabian peninsula found in each section of Chapter 7 into your map.
2. Label each type of feature, using a variety of colored inks - red, black, green.
3. Create a key for different types of landform symbols or colors (use colored pencil to fill spaces).  More information in class before you start this map.
4. Modern political boundaries and national labels
Rubric - 20 total points: 5 - Space and proportions; 5 - Color and solid line; 5 - clear and complete text; 5 - all requirements met well and overall quality.

5. Journal Activity (McMullen - Papa's Waltz Activity)
a. Write a 200 word minimum journal about the following prompt:
b. prompt - Have you ever had an experience of extreme weather or climate that you had to respond to. Were you too cold or hot, needed a better set of clothes, or needed food and/or water.
c. Share the complete text with your group of two journals (the tallest boy and the tallest girl in your group); Everyone else shares their best paragraph with the group.

The following activities are individual assignments that will follow a full class activity:
... Level 3 performances

6. Thesis Statement Activity
a. After I-Search topics have been selected and resolved (no one may have the same topic or position on the issue)...
b. Write a thesis statement that clearly takes a position on the issue.

7. Isearch Research - Library or computers
a. Find one book in the library about your topic. Check it out.
b. Write down its bibliographic information.
c. Take three notes based on the note taking format - here

8. I-search lists (survey)
a. make a list for each of the following ideas loosely related to your Isearch topic. There is no right or wrong, but it is important that each list have ten items, some items better than other, and some items complete nonsense.
b. Ideas for each list:
i. Why I like my topic
ii. What I think I know about my topic in my own mind already (regardless of it being correct)
iii. What my topic is related to
iv. Reasons I believe in one side of the issue more than the other side of the issue
v. Key arguments I can make to prove my assigned position is the best argument, regardless of what I believe

Non-Fiction Book Survey - Due Tuesday, 011414

Here is the survey - you may edit your responses by retaking the survey. If you cannot answer a question when you do the survey at first, put a single letter in the space as your answer, and come back and answer it later.

The final assignment with all answers must be completed before class on Tuesday.

Guild Levels Explained

Here

Sub plans for January 9

1. In Google docs, in the shared dropbox folder, create an Isearch folder

2. Use this link to share the top three Isearch topics you would like to be considered for that you are interested in doing.

3. Finish typing your poem and edit it. Make sure it is in your shared LA7 folder. 

4. Make sure you completed the Ch 6 EQ survey here.

5. Non-Fiction Project notes (Core class only) - create a Gdoc in the LA folder. Write the title and author of your non-fiction book. 

• type a list of the chapters.
• In one paragraph, explain the ideas presented in this book.
• In one paragraph, explain the best part of the book, and why it was the best.
• What area of the book raised more questions for you. What question seems like it is worth pursuing in order to find out more about it? Explain.

6. If you have not prepared or already presented Level 3 then make sure you are prepared to present.

For Thursday - Finish writing 12 lines of poetry and bring your Non-Fiction Book to class

Based on today's in class poetry brainstorming session, finish writing AND TYPE (in gdoc) at least 12 lines of your poem. You may write more lines. You can, but are not required to work on the poem. We will work on the poem in small groups on Friday.

EQ 6 HW here

Follow this link