1/9

HW due Wednesday

1. Strength Based Models of Thinking vs. Deficit Based Models of Thinking (Strength Based Approach Video from Class)

On a 1/2 page of paper show a personal example of how you take a perceived deficit about yourself and how you can flip that into a strength.

Side 1 -- Deficit, image, caption (explaining the deficit)
Side 2 -- STRENGTH, image, caption (explaining the strength)

Examples:
Deficit thinking - I'm too short to play basketball
Strength thinking - Because I am short, I am able to move quicker, I have to be tough, and I can see different angles on the court

Deficit thinking - I am bad at planning ahead
Strength thinking - I very present to the people I am with in all moments of the day

8th Grade Leader Survey

8th Grade Leader Survey

1/8

HW due Tuesday:

1. Writing for 17 minutes

...Focus on either a moment during your winter break where you had a single story shift because you got another perspective or a time during the break when you used one of the 4 agreements (experience discomfort, speak your truth, stay engaged, and expect/accept non-closure). Your story should include dialogue and an image. Because you only have to write for 17 minutes, it does not need to be complete a story with a a perfect beginning, middle, and end. 

Thursday = Oregon Jewish Museum field study

Thanks to the families that boosted our snack situation today!!!

A reminder that I am trying to get extra copies of the following books in our class. Can you help?

Human Rights + Refugee Books:
-Refugee by Alan Gratz
-The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
-What is the What by Dave Eggers
-I am Malala


Also, we are going to create a "reading corner" in our classroom. Do you have any coziness that you could bring in to help make that the most awesome corner in the school (bean bag chairs, pillows, carpets, etc...)?

1/5/18

HW due Monday:

1. Family Migration Stories 
"to learn about other and connect with them, we first must know about ourselves."

Find someone in your extended family or an adult in your life to briefly interview them about the story of how they came to Oregon. Be sure to ask well in advance so you honor their time and energy and aren't waiting until the last second. If you need more time to make this interview happen, self-advocate (my email is mjansa@pps.net) and set up a new deadline for when you can get this done. Complete the interview sheet as best as possible and take quick notes to remember what you heard.

What are you doing for your Term 2 Service Hours? If you still need hours, there are some great opportunities this weekend with the Sunnyside Tree Recycling Event from 10 - 4 both Saturday and Sunday. More info and sign ups can be found here:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4baaae28a0f94-sestree1

If you can't make it this weekend, but still need service, check out the middle school service blog:
http://servicesunnyside.blogspot.com/

Thursday = field study to the Oregon Jewish Museum

If you have any of the following, or can get your hands on them, please do so to support our learning and nutrition:

Snack!!!

Human Rights + Refugee Books:
-Refugee by Alan Gratz
-The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
-What is the What by Dave Eggers
-I am Malala

1/4

HW due Friday:

1. Complete your "Waving Flag" representation of who you are (if you were absent, this is an assignment that would best be explained in person... For now, scroll down on the blog and follow through on the steps on Sarah Rahbar's Waving Flag blog post from yesterday) and share one thing from the flag and what it represents with at least one person in your family.

If you have any of the following, or can get your hands on them, please do so to support our learning and nutrition:

Snack!!!

Human Rights + Refugee Books:
-Refugee by Alan Gratz
-The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
-What is the What by Dave Eggers
-I am Malala

1/3/18

HW due Thursday:

1. READ (30 minutes) and bring reading material to school on Thursday

2. Tomorrow we will finish our Geology Post Assessment that you started before winter break. It is open note. Bring your E-Core with whatever you need to do to prepare for it.

I forgot to collect your Post Winter Break - Reading + Life Check In today. I will be collecting it tomorrow morning.

We are out of snack in the classroom. Can you help bring some in for our class?

WAVING FLAGS PROJECT

WAVING FLAGS PROJECT:

Step 1: Read Sara Rahbar's bio
Step 2: Look through all of the Waving Flags she created... Pay attention to what she is representing in her different flags (symbology) and how she created each flag (composition)
Step 3: Read artist statement (on bottom of blog)
Step 4: Put computer to sleep, plug back in, come see Michael... Tell him 1 thing you though about the identity symbology and 1 thing about the composition (how she created the flags).

SARA RAHBAR - Bio: https://www.sararahbar.com/biography

Waving Flag Examples: https://www.sararahbar.com/flags

SARA RAHBAR  - ARTIST STATEMENT

In the end we are all just visiting

and we all come to this world alone and we leave alone.

But while we are here we try so desperately to belong to something,

to someone and to somewhere.

Metamorphosing and transforming for the means of surviving it all,

our foundations lay, but our houses have burned to the ground.

Building castles in the sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down.


WHEN DONE... PUT COMPUTER TO SLEEP, PLUG BACK IN, COME SEE MICHAEL AND SHARE WITH HIM 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM AND 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE COMPOSITION