During the Break...

Hiya core class! My apologies that I am just now updating the blog for the weekend. I hope everyone was able to enjoy time away from school, with family and good people, sharing appreciations and gratitude. 

You don't have anything due tomorrow on Monday. 

However, over the break you should have been reading daily! This includes finishing the Coming of Age Short Story you took home with you over break. 

In addition, you have a How Our Earth Work 3D Geology project due Wednesday, December 7th.

We spent all of Tuesday afternoon going over this project. As a reminder, the rubric is here:

How Our Earth Works - Individual 3D Project

We will spend more time this week on this project, though it would be wise to consider what you question you might ask, what project you could create based off that question, and how you will make it interactive

The Riparian Curriculum Festival is Friday, December 9th. Much of our next two weeks will be spent getting ready for this awesome celebration of our learning!

11/21

HW due Tuesday:

1. Work for 45 minutes on your Writing for Justice narratives. Include dialogue, blocking, and inner monologue in your writing. Use the Narrative Criteria and Dialogue Punctuation handouts as a guide.

Remember that the writing you did in class counts towards that 45 minutes, meaning that though everyone has to do some writing tonight (no one got all 45 minutes done in class), no one should have to write for more than 30 minutes tonight.

Monday In Class Work (not HW):

1. Click on the following link to read the Voting Laws article in NewsELA
2. Read the article, respond to the written part, and complete the quiz

NEWS ELA Article - Election Voting Laws

If the link doesn't work, sign in with google to newsela using your google PPS account, and search:

Laws from Civil War stopped 6.1 million from voting

WHEN DONE WITH NEWSELA...

With their Chromebooks

Students can begin working on their HW by continuing to write their Writing for Justice narratives on chromebooks. Students should include dialogue, blocking, and inner monologue in their narrative. USE YOUR CLASS TIME WELL!!!!

Monday PM: TO DO IN CLASS

1. Click on the following link to read the Voting Laws article in NewsELA
2. Read the article, respond to the written part, and complete the quiz

NEWS ELA Article - Election Voting Laws
The link won't automatically log you in. To access the work, sign in with google to newsela using your google PPS account

If the link isn't working, sign in and search:

Laws from Civil War stopped 6.1 million from voting

WHEN DONE WITH NEWSELA...

With their Chromebooks

1. Students should go to the class blog (ses211.blogpsot) and follow instructions to read a NewsELA article. They should complete the writing and quiz for the article

2. When done, students can begin working on their HW by continuing to write their Writing for Justice narratives on chromebooks. Students should include dialogue, blocking, and inner monologue in their narrative. USE YOUR CLASS TIME WELL!!!!

3. Students should clean up their desks, return pencils, and leave at 2:08 to check back in chromebooks in the library and then go straight to Art class.

HW due Tuesday:

1. Work for 45 minutes on your Writing for Justice narratives. Include dialogue, blocking, and inner monologue in your writing.

11/18

HW due Monday:

1. Writing for Justice Narrative

...Work on your Writing for Justice narrative for 30 minutes
... Include a hook (action, thought, or dialogue)
... Attempt to include dialogue in your narrative

2, Coming of Age Short Story Assignment #3
...Read a short story, complete the corresponding assignment (link to the assignment is below)

Coming of Age Short Story Assignment 3

If you need a short story, here is a link to Bruce Colville's What's the Worst that Could Happen: http://emsyear8english.weebly.com/uploads/4/5/7/4/45749033/worstthatcouldhappen.pdf

HW due Tuesday:

1. Parent Conference Reflection

Parent Conference Reflection

11/17

HW due Friday:

1. Reed College Cooley Art Gallery field study assignment
-I know the essential question was too wordy. What it boils down to, is what was essential about this trip and how does it connect to our previous learning.
-Consider R.A.C.E. for the essential question (Restate the question, Answer the question in complete sentences, Cite evidence (with at least two specific examples), Explain + Add other observations or connections
-Assignment Question 1 has changed... It is now simply, explain what you drew during the drawing activity
-Extra Credit: Write a thank you note to Gregory (not in your e-core so I can send it to him)
Reed College Cooley Art Gallery field study assignment

11/16

HW due Thursday:

1. Reed College Cooley Art Gallery
...Tomorrow we are headed to the Cooley Art Gallery from 11:00 - 3:00. In addition to a water bottle, either bring $5-8 for food from the Reed College cafeteria or a lunch.
...Write down three facts about the gallery and/or the current exhibit: http://www.reed.edu/gallery/

Here is the essential question for tomorrow so you can ponder it well in advance:

Reed College Cooley Art Gallery Essential Question:

1. Even though this field study does not directly connect into our other geology field studies, what made this field study an essential Year or the Mountain learning experience? In what ways does this experience with Gregory at the Reed College Cooley Art Gallery connect with the learning we have done this year? Give specific examples and connections.

2. Writing for Justice
...You don't have to do anything specific for HW, but be thinking about where you have had experiences as a target, ally, bystander, and perpetrator for our graphic organizer work tomorrow morning

READ 20-30 minutes DAILY!!!!

Extra Credit:

Read the following article on News ELA and complete the corresponding writing and quiz
In these classrooms, fidgeting, moving around and bouncing are encouraged

6th grade - Read at 950L
7th/8th grade - Read at 1040L

1. Read the article
2.  Write!!!
3. Take the quiz

4. Explore other articles in the news section of NEWS ELA. Pick another article to not only read, but complete the Writing and Quiz sections for

11/15

A note from our principal Amy: Participate in the #NoDAPL National Day of Action. There is a gathering of solidarity at the US Army Corps of Engineers, 333 SW 1st Ave, 4 pm. Several teachers, students and families will attend (as will I).

HW due Wednesday:

1. READ 20-30 MINUTES DAILY!!!!

2. Share an appreciation with at least 1 person. Be present to others

Notes from today:

Sarah Kay - If I Should Have a Daughter - TED Talk

Room 211 - - - What We Know to Be True

• That everyone is equal
• That everybody falls, but what matters is if you get back up
• Portland hates the sun
• Just because one person is bad, doesn’t mean the love around the ones you care about is gone
• We are a community
• Just because our voice is one of a billion doesn’t mean we can’t be heard
• It isn’t over yet
• “The power of the people is stronger than the people with power”
• Kindness is a requirement
• Just because someone has done something bad doesn’t mean they are a bad person
• Calling someone stupid doesn’t make you any smarter
• Never give up on someone
• Just because you lose once doesn’t make you not a winner
• After it rains there is always a rainbow
• We need to hope
• Anyone can be successful

Thursday = Reed College Cooley Art Gallery field study (11:00 - 3:00)
...Bring 5-8 dollars if you want to buy a lunch at the Reed College Cafeteria before our field study

Wednesday Service Opportunity:

Wednesday, November 16th, Doors-6:30, Conversation-7:00 pm

An Evening With The Tar Sands Valve-Turners

"Stepping Outside Polite Conversation"

Sunnyside Community House

3520 SE Yamhill St. Portland

On October 11th, five individuals engaged in non-violent civil disobedience to show solidarity with Standing Rock Water Protectors and to bring attention to the need for immediate action on climate disruption. "Valve-Turners" broke into five U.S. entry points for Alberta Tar Sands oil and turned the valves to shut off the flow. "...we've tried the legal, incremental, reasonable methods, and they haven't been anything like enough: without a radical shift in our relationship to this Earth, all that we love will disappear. My fear of that possibility is far greater than my fear of jail. My love for the beauties of this world are far greater than my love of an easy life."--Emily Johnston, Valve-Turner 

Legal Fund for the Valve-Turners: Suggested $10 donation---no one turned away

All Five of the Pacific NW Valve-Turners will be present to share in the evening's conversation.

EVENT INFO is ATTACHED.

10/12.Democracy Now!'s Report on Tar Sands Shut-Of

Seattle TV News -Nov 2-Tar Sands Valve-Turners