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Thursday, May 15, 2014

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

Monday, May 12, 2014

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



Friday, May 9, 2014

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

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

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.

Monday, May 5, 2014

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


Thursday, May 1, 2014

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)