Work Due Week of May 27 - 30

LA7 - Due Dates

Due last week - 
1. Outsiders - Story, Essay, or Presentation - link here and original directions here
2. Two Story Comparison - link here and original directions here

• if you have not turned either of these assignments, please take care of this immediately. These assignments are being graded this week.

3. Portfolio - due 052814 - link here (Note - also for SS7, period 3)

• 1. Table of Contents - you will get time to finish this in class. It must be printed in class.
• 2. Journal - 200 word, three paragraph minimum response to types of assignments, favorite assignments, and areas/units you enjoyed learning about
• about 5 students completed these portfolio steps in each class.

SS7 - Due Dates

052714 - Complete the Test Question/Group performance survey - link here

052814 - Complete the SS Culminating Project Presentation with all student work that will appear in the final assignment. 

(This is an absolute due date for all student work for the project, necessary to earn the group grade. If a student does not contribute, that student will not earn the group grade, and the group grade will be computed and award to students who have completed all assignments on time.)

Class Schedule May 28/29 this week

Here

Portfolio Assignment - TOC and Journal due 052814

Due 052814
1. Label your portfolio folder -

• tab - Last, First name - period of class
• Front:
• Social Studies (and Language Arts - for core 1)
• Grade level
• Mr. Rodgers - Room 601
• 2013-2014

2. Table of Contents

• pick a minimum of a variety of 10 assignments that you liked to do, were favorites, or that you learned by doing. You may have up to 15 assignments
• Title your portfolio - My Social Studies portfolio
• Make a list of assignments in order
• title (you can name the assignment based on the content or ideas)
• date or month
• you decide the order of assignments

3. Journal Reflection on portfolio

• Write at least 200 words about:
• Best type of work that you did in this class
• Favorite assignment, other than best type of work (1 - 2 different assignments)
• Something you enjoyed learning in this class, that was not necessarily tied to any assignments in the portfolio, but may related to portfolio assignments.

HW - due Tuesday, May 26 - Test Questions and Group Performance Survey

Homework for Wednesday and Thursday night - Due next Tuesday:

Also, time to start building your group test - follow these steps - due next Tuesday:

1. Based on the materials YOU have researched,

2. Complete the following two-part survey: TEST QUESTIONS and Group Performance Survey,

PART ONE - TEST QUESTIONS:
each person must write

• 4 simpler questions that can be turned into MC or fill-in the blank type of questions
• 2 EQ questions about the same material. 
• EQ questions ask about a concept or process, and require a definition and 2 - 3 pieces of evidence/details to explain how that concept applies to history

Question content in relation to the group Slide Show:
3. the questions should cover elements shared in your group slide show that you contributed

4. each questions should cover a different area of information that you contributed or researched

5. all questions must reflect content shared in the slide show, since this is what all students will see

• if you have a question you feel is important, but the content is not in the slide show
• you must add the information and graphic to the slide show

PART TWO - Group Performance is self explanatory.

Substitute plans and Thursday Advisory attendance

posted here

Thursday Advisory -
if you received a low Project Progress grade for the Social Studies Culminating Project,
then you must attend my Advisory this Thursday.

Scanned Project Work

All scanned maps, timelines, charts, and other graphics are in your group shared folder, in a new folder called scanned work. 

1. Make sure that you use as many student created graphics as possible.
2. Each graphic must have a text explanation.
3. If a graphic does not pass the minimum requirements for a quality assignment based on the groups standards, then the final slide show should not include such work.

• students can update, correct, or redo assignments that do not meet minimum requirements.
• the group can substitute internet graphics occasionally for such assignments.

4. The final slide show must include a sufficient number of student created assignments. 

5. If the slide show includes work that does NOT meet minimum requirements, then the slide show grade will lose points.

SS7 Work - week of 051914 - 052314

SS7 - all dates are DUE dates

0521 (core 1)/ 0522 (period 3) -
A. Complete First draft of the Group Slide Show (See Final Slide Show direction here)
1. Individually, each person must create slides for all graphics and their related text blurbs.
2. If a person is missing either a text or a graphic, for a slide, then that person must write the text or find a graphic for their written text.
3. Other materials, such as the Short Report or Travel Log assignment text can also be included (see below)
4. Since this is a first draft of the slide show, order of slides, final graphics, and uniformity are due on 052314 when the final slide show is completed.

B. Travel Log or Short Report:
In groups, students may choose to do a Travel Log OR a Short Report
1. 3 paragraphs
2. 300 - 400 words overall
3. typed in a gdoc: FirstLTrLog or FirstLShRep

Short Report directions
Travel Log directions

052314 -
A. Completed Slide Show (See Final Slide Show direction here)

LA7 Work for Week of 051914 - 052314

LA7 - All dates are due dates (Also, check separate SS7 assignments here)
052014 -

A. Outsiders - Print out a double spaced typed gdoc version of your first draft from last week.

B. Story Comparison assignment
1. 2nd Draft of story comparison piece - typed in gdoc - saved as FirstL2stories - shared -
2. HERE ARE THE DIRECTIONS AND NOTES FROM CLASS for draft 1
3. Share your 2nd draft with your designated editor as comment only
4. All editors must comment on grammar, spelling, and sentence construction. In comments make suggestions for improvements.

052314 -
2nd Draft of Outsiders piece  - typed in the original gdoc -
1. that demonstrates suggested organization and idea edits made in class on Tuesday.
2. the draft must be edited by an adult on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday night for:

• spelling, grammar, sentence structure, paragraph construction

3. Turn in edited copies of first drafts.

Due Monday, 051914 - finish as HW Thursday Night 051514

Complete as LA7 homework tonight -
1. Handwrite the first draft
2. Compare the two stories that we read in class.
3. Use the handouts and your notes from each story we read in class. (bring back to class on Monday).

HERE ARE THE DIRECTIONS AND NOTES FROM CLASS

Core 1 - due Thursday - type your handwritten "map" blurbs for SS7 homework

These were passed back in class today.

- Mr. R

HW due this week in class week of 051214 - due in group folder by given date below

LA7
051414  T -
Complete first draft of Outsiders due in Shared with erodgers@lcmschools.org. Save Outsider assignment as (regardless if it is a chapter, essay, or presentation): FirstLOutsiders10years.

Turn in Outsiders Book.

The following assignments help groups show key events and people that were important for each group's topic:
SS7
051414  T -
Each person in the group must write out a final blurb (3 - 4 sentences) about their found person and event (1 blurb for each = 2 blurbs). Find a picture of each person and event that you wrote about. Copy the picture into the gdoc, copy the url below each picture. Use notes from previous assignment (FirstLPE) (bullet points about an medieval event and person). Save as: FirstLMediEventfinal

051514 W/Th -
1. Current event article from your culture. Print out the article. We will complete the writeup and current event activity in class.
2. (Separate assignment):
a. Each person must find a major modern event and how your culture was affected by it from 1870 to current. Write a blurb about it.
b. Find and copy, into your gdoc, a graphic that illustrates this event.
c. Suggestion - use a history of your region site, and look at the Modern part of the history since 1870.
d. Save as: FirstLModEv

3. Show complete Mayan movie "Breaking the Mayan Code" notes

051614 F -
1. Each person must find three pictures of medieval period art and architecture. Copy each into a gdoc. Three bullet point notes about each (date, location, event, creator). Save as: FirstL3Medipics
2. Each person must must find three pictures of modern period art, cultural imagery, clothes. Three bullet point notes required for each. Save as: FirstL3MODpics

Project - Text Sample - Due 051314

Activity:
For your project group, each individual must use the internet or books to find the following:
1. an excerpt, or part, of a speech, story, novel, or a complete poem
2. from your culture (that is translated into English)
3. that discusses a different topic for each person.

Output:
1. Copy the text into your gdoc
2. Explain what the passage is about, where it came from, time period, etc.

Example -
person 1 finds an excerpt about the fall harvest (farming)
person 2 finds a poem about war and battle

Output:
gdoc in group folder

save as: FirstLTX

HW due through Friday, May 9

LA7 -
Due:
050714 - Write about one element of PB in ten years. Complete 100 words minimum. Add this to your gdoc PB10.

050914 -
Write element number two, 100 words minimum.

Presentations (alternative to essay or story) should have 10 complete slides. You should try to include 2 youtube clips within the entire presentation that show PB's life then and now in relation to how he looks, the car he drives, the music he listens to, etc.

SS7 -
050814 - Pencil version of your timeline or second map.
050914 - Completed (colored and inked, labelled) timeline or second map.

HW due Tuesday, 050614

LA7 - Outsiders
1. Write a paragraph detailing the type of Outsiders Project you choose, and
2. The basic areas of Pony Boy's life you will focus on 10 years after the book takes place.
3. gDoc - save as: FirstLPB10. example: EliottRPB10

• save in your LA7 folder (that should be shared with Mr. R)

This activity is related to the Outsiders Project information found here - timeline TBA

SS7 - Medieval Map
1. Finish the individual assigned ink outline version of your Medieval Map for your group
2. If ink, color and label the map.

Timeline - extra only
3. If the map is complete, find 7 - 10 events from the Medieval time period

HW due Wed through Friday, April 29 - May 1

Due Date - Detail

SS7 - 0501:

Each person in the group:

1. Find one historical person

2. Find a historical event NOT related to the historical person

3. Take 5 summary points per each item above

Save as: FirstLPE5 in the group folder

LA7 -

0430 - 

1. Read chapter 7 - 8 

2. notate appropriately (3 summary points and 2 quotes with page number per chapter)

0501 - 

1. Read chapter 9 - 10 

2. notate appropriately (3 summary points and 2 quotes with page number per chapter)

0502 - 

1. Read chapter 11 - 12 

2. notate appropriately (3 summary points and 2 quotes with page number per chapter)