Friday, February 26, 2016

Friday- Day 126

Please be good for the sub.

1. You were given The End of Something packet yesterday.  You need to complete the questions about style and inferences at the end of the packet.
2. Complete these 7 questions- you need to write the answer to these questions on the back of your packet.  Your progress will be checked for a grade.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Monday, February 22, 2016

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Wednesday- Day 119

1. SSR and Stem
2. Rocky Quiz
3. Finish The Jungle- 18.22.26
4. Food Packing Industry Video

  This is not 1906. This is modern Day

5. Fast Food Nation


Homework- Reading

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Tuesday- Day 114

1. SSR
2. SDL
3. 10 minutes to wrap up presentations
4. . It's SHOWTIME!!!! Post your presentation here
5. Begin reading The Jungle
Homework- Reading and DON'T FORGET...BOOK PROJECTS IN 3 WEEKS


Monday, February 8, 2016

Monday- Day 113

Good Morning.  I am sorry I am out today.  I really wish I was in school with you.  I was in the ER yesterday.  I did something to my shoulder, and I am in utter pain.  I am at the orthopedic surgeon, and I plan on being back with you on Tuesday.  Please be good for the sub.  Here is what is going on in class today.

1. SSR for 10 minutes
2. Get into your groups and rehearse your Jungle presentations.  You will have 15 minutes.
3. Go on line and find an article related to wealth in AMERICA.  If you are not sure what to look up, here are some suggestions: wealth gap, income inequality, net worth, net worth and race, men vs women's income, unemployment, under-employment, student debt, poverty, minimum wage, raising the minimum wage, inflation, who as all the wealth,  ANYTHING that interests you about the idea of wealth.
4. Please complete the following after you read the article:

  • Create a new DOC in your English folder called WEALTH
  • Put a link to article at the top of the page
  • Write a summary of the article (5 sentences)
  • Write your reaction to the article.  How do you feel about what you read?  What are your feelings?  (7 sentences)
  • Create a claim about the article.  You can write about what has caused the situation to be, what the effect of the situation is, or you can purpose a solution to the situation.  Be sure to follow the C, E, R, E, R, C format.
5. Whatever is not done is do for homework.

I will see you tomorrow.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Friday- Day 112

Jungle Overview

You will present about the themes, motifs, and symbols

Your presentation: you will use GOOGLE slides.  Your presentation will have the following:


  • Slide introducing your topic to the class...no more than 5 words on this slide.....look at the audience and talk to them
  • Slide with an image from the time period (1900's-1920)...no words...talk to the class and explain how this image explains your topic
  • Slide with an image of today's society.  You will connect your topic to today (what happened if the book is still happening today)  Make the connection...NO WORDS
Socialism vs Capitalism- Javi
Immigrants and the American Dream- Josh
Corruption- Jesus/Jamie
Family Tradition- DOMO
Packingtown and the Stockyards-Arrieta
Cans of rotten meat- Jalen/Salam
Jungle- David Garcia

Homework- work on your presentation

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Thursday- Day 111

1. SSR
2. SDL
3. Jungle Overview
   We will read the summary together
    You will present about the themes, motifs, and symbols

Your presentation: you will use GOOGLE slides.  Your presentation will have the following:


  • Slide introducing your topic to the class...no more than 5 words on this slide.....look at the audience and talk to them
  • Slide with an image from the time period (1900's-1920)...no words...talk to the class and explain how this image explains your topic
  • Slide with an image of today's society.  You will connect your topic to today (what happened if the book is still happening today)  Make the connection...NO WORDS
Socialism vs Capitalism
Immigrants and the American Dream- Josh
Corruption
Family Tradition
Packingtown and the Stockyards
Cans of rotten meat
Jungle- David Garcia

Homework- work on your presentation



Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Wednesday- Day 109

1. SSR and Stem
2. Chicago Quiz
3.  Chicago-  Team Effort

  • paraphrase- 3 sentences 
  •  personification- 2 new examples
  • diction- 2 new examples
  • tone- what and why (claim and evidence)  tomorrow if need be!







Tuesday, February 2, 2016