9/8 - Weekend HW

Awesome Friday Fist Pumps today...Happy weekend everybody! Rest easy as next week is our first official full week of school!

HW due Monday:

1. Moda Center Field Study Assignment: Moda Center Field Study Assignment

Take some time review the expectations and rubric before finishing your assignment.
Remember that the essential question is the most important part of this assignment. I expect complete sentences, full effort, specific examples from our field study, and a connection and observation. Also, don't forget that you can complete your assignment questions in alternative ways if you don't want to write them out (lists, images and captions, audio recording, video recording, etc...). If you choose to type your responses to this assignment that is totally fine, just make sure that you have it either printed or emailed/shared with me before 8:30 Monday morning.

Field Study Assignment Rubric

Field Study Do's and Expectations

Email: mjansa@pps.net
Google Docs Sharing: mjansa@apps4pps.net

Make sure you read daily this weekend (20-45 minutes a day)!!!

You will need to have selected a "Just Right Choice Fiction Novel and have it in your hands by next Thursday, September 14th

Thursday, September 14th is Back to School Parent Night from 6:30 - 8:00

9/7

HW due Friday:

Thanks for an engaging day of learning, an exciting intro to the Year of the Mountain with some DIRT, and a great trip to the Belmont Library.

1. Writing - Making Sense of the Summer: Making Sense of the Summer Writing Activity
...Come to school with this finished tomorrow. If you finished it during the 45 minutes we worked on it in class, then spend 11-14 minutes working on this tonight, expanding beyond the minimum and adding more details. No one should work on this for more than 33 minutes unless they want to. If you get to 33 minutes and are not done, mark where you stop and check in with me in the morning.
I will collect these tomorrow.

Making Sense of the Summer - Current Event Links

Making Sense of the Summer - Current Event Links

Human Chain saves family from drowning: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/11/a-riptide-swept-away-a-florida-family-then-beachgoers-formed-a-human-chain/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.a9167c689c8f

Afghan Girls allowed to compete in robotics contest: https://nyti.ms/2vhPEzL and they medaled: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/afghan-team-medal-winners-global-robotics-event-48718290

Female Dr. Who: http://www.salon.com/2017/07/17/new-doctor-who-woman/

Eels: http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/07/13/american-slime-story-truck-filled-with-live-eels-crashes-on-oregon-coastal-highway-coating-other-vehicles-in-goo/

Portland Antifa/Alt-Right

http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017/08/06/as-portland-police-stand-by-alt-right-and-antifa-protesters-beat-each-other-bloody/

Portland’s New Police Chief

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2017-08-07/portland-mayor-chooses-oakland-officer-as-next-police-chief

Charlottesville: http://www.teenvogue.com/story/complacency-racism-white-supremacy-charlottesville-thigh-high-politics-lauren-duca

Shooting at the baseball field (Republican congressmen baseball team): https://nyti.ms/2snMufu  

Governor of NJ using the beach after it closed because of budget impasse: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/nj/chris-christie-island-beach-state-park-nj-shutdown-20170702.html

Trump tweets Transgender policy: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/trump-military-transgender-ban-joint-chiefs/index.html

Iceberg splitting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40321674

North Korea:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/13/trump-mullen-north-korea-241583

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-warns-north-korea-threats-kim-jong-regret/story?id=49165805

Spain:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/18/544407561/what-we-know-multiple-terrorist-attacks-hit-spain

9/6

Tomorrow we are NOT going on our Mt. Tabor field study due to the physical activities that go along with that field study and the poor air quality. Sorry.We will make up this field study in two weeks. Instead of a field study tomorrow, we will make some learning magic happen at school. We will also be visiting the Belmont Library in the afternoon to kick off our choice-fiction reading unit. If you have a library card, bring it.

You do not have any homework tonight except to read for 20-45 minutes.

Be thinking about a quote that you stand for that you could share with the class later this week.

Enjoy the afternoon and share a positive moment from school with someone from your family.

9/6

I hope you all stay as cool and safe as possible this afternoon and tonight.

HW due Wednesday:

1. Important Moments in My Reading History
...Please complete this worksheet (Reading History Worksheet ) that we started working in class this morning so that I can better get to know you as a reader. You should not spend more than 30 minutes working on this.


Thursday we are going to Mt. Tabor for our field study

I hope you all had a good time connecting with your period 1 and period 2 teachers and classmates. Here is a copy of our core class weekly schedule: Michael's Core Class Weekly Schedule

Tuesday, September 5th - Early Dismissal @ 1:15

Dear PPS Families and Staff:

Due to a heat advisory all schools will end two hours earlier than the regular school hours on Tuesday, Sept. 5. All PPS kindergarten and preschool programs will be delayed one day and start on Wednesday, Sep. 6. Extended hot weather could cause unsafe or unhealthy conditions in PPS classrooms, and the safety of our students is always our foremost concern.

This early dismissal plan will also result in the cancellation of after-school activities in PPS buildings, including childcare. After-school athletics will follow OSSA guidelines.

School buses will arrive at school two hours earlier in the afternoon and drop students off at their regular bus stops two hours earlier. Because PPS child care sites will be closed, please plan to pick up your students at their school site two hours earlier than the normal end of your students’ school day.   

The District is making this decision because only a handful of our buildings have air conditioning. Additionally, smoke from forest fires has prompted an air quality advisory. This means windows in many classrooms must remain closed, which reduces air flow and can cause even higher temperatures. 

Families should contact their students' school with questions. PPS will also have a coordination line open at 503-916-6600 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to answer questions.

Thank you for your understanding.

Yousef Awwad, Interim Superintendent

9/1

Hooray for having a great first week of school! What an awesome fountain field study we had today to finish off the week. We will work on our field study essential and assignment questions Tuesday in class. You do not have to worry about finishing it for homework.

Have an AWESOME long weekend.

A reminder that we will start school on Tuesday in core class, not morning meeting.

Homework due Tuesday:

1. Bring choice silent reading material to class. We will start every Tuesday with silent reading. Please bring reading material in for this day. It is choice, which means you can read a novel, graphic novel, newspaper, magazine, or any other kind of reading material. If you like to read using audible or learning ally, you are welcome to use that in class on Tuesday.

2. Perspective Card:
...On a 1/2 sheet of blank paper write the word perspective from your perspective. You can write this however you want with as much or as little detail as you see fit. This is from your perspective! This activity is an extension of our nature journal activity from our field study and an introduction into a word you will use all year.  Your card will hang in our classroom all year, showing how we have 33 different perspectives on the same exact word and capturing the importance of multiple perspectives in this class.

Below is an example (you can't use this one!)...