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HW due Wednesday:

1. Term 2 Service Reflection
...This is NOT due tomorrow.
...We worked on this for roughly 30 minutes today. Work on this for another 30 minutes tonight. It will be due Thursday. If anyone finishes it tonight and wants feedback they can turn it in tomorrow morning.
...Focus on using the green rubric as your guide so that your reflection includes:
Hook, What? So What?! NOW WHAT?!?!, Concluding Thought, Creative Piece
...Be mindful of your conventions. Do you have a title? Pay attention to indenting paragraphs, capitalization, and punctuation marks!

Here is the rubric (sorry it is scanned poorly):
Service Reflection Rubric (scanned)

For those of you interested, here are some of those images related to Nestle and specific corporate ownership of many different products: Nestle

Also, here are the images from our VTS discussion today: VTS 1/31/17

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HW due Monday:

1. Spoken Word Poetry Unit with Mic Crenshaw Reflection

Spoken Word Poetry Reflection Assignment

...Please note that your answers to this reflection do not have to be written. You could record them in audio or video format or in any other creative way if you so choose

***Your writing and speaking today was beyond incredible! I strongly encourage you all to share your final spoken word piece with your family. If didn't get a chance to share on Friday and still want to, we will hold space for you all Monday to continue that sharing!***  

2. Term 2 Service Hours

...Your 3 hours of term 2 service should be complete by Monday

...We will start working on the reflections in class on Tuesday

HW due Tuesday:

1. Science Fiction novel in class

Term 2 ends Thursday, February 2nd

No school (grading day) Friday, February 3rd

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HW due Friday:

1. Spoken Word Poem
...Finish your poem
...Share it with one person outside of our core class community
...Tomorrow afternoon will be our last class with Mic Crenshaw. Come ready to share and learn and celebrate!

HW due Monday, Jan 30th
1. Term 2 Service Hours (3) complete ***We will work on the reflection in class Tuesday***

HW due Tuesday, Jan 31st
1. Science Fiction (Dystopian) choice novel selected and in class (unless we have talked ahead of time)

Spoken Word - Writing for Friday

Considering the past 4 days with Mic Crenshaw and using the unit objective and essential questions as your guide, create a spoken word poem that is true to you.

Unit Objective --- Through a spoken word poetry unit focused on exploring identity and issues of justice, students will learn from local activist and artist Mic Crenshaw, extending their learning into both written and spoken poetry.

Unit Essential Questions

• Who am I? To myself? To my family? To my community? Who are we?
• What are the stories I carry in my backpack? How can I share them?

How to turn it into a spoken word poem What are the strongest visual memories The strongest sensory details (with those feelings) Sight, sound, textile, emotions My bodies sensual experience → the things that left their mark on me STRONG statements that carry the poem? let words hang in the air Focus on one line to deliver with emotion, power, clarity Repeat lines!!!

Thursday in class: NewsELA

Read TWO of the following NewsELA articles at an appropriate reading level for yourself, respond to the questions, and take the quiz

a.  https://newsela.com/articles/womens-marches/id/26027/ OR
b. Pick any article from the Water is Life article collection: https://newsela.com/text-sets/40364/el--water-life
c. Pick any article from the Screens article collection https://newsela.com/search/#/?needle=screens

If prompted for a class code, try either of the following: Class Code: 4042j9 or 64FBB5

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HW due Thursday:

1. Screenagers - 4 Bars
...Write 4 bars (sentences) about your reaction to Screenageers

2. Belmont Library
...Tomorrow we are headed to the Belmont Library as we kick off our Science Fiction (Dystopian/Utopian) choice novel reading unit. What science fiction books do you love? Which ones would you like to read that are at your reading level? Make sure you bring your library card and/or know your address if you would like to check out any books while there tomorrow.

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HW due Wednesday:

1. Read only one of the following NewsELA articles at an appropriate reading level for yourself, respond to the questions, and take the quiz

a.  https://newsela.com/articles/womens-marches/id/26027/ OR
b. Pick any article from the Water is Life article collection: https://newsela.com/text-sets/40364/el--water-life

If prompted for a class code, try either of the following: Class Code: 4042j9 or 64FBB5

If you have technical problems or don't have access to do this, don't worry about it, we can find time at school to make it happen

2. Write 4 bars about My Family (that means you only have to write 4 sentences). Don't overthink this, spend no more than 10-15 minutes on. Write what comes to your head right away!!! This is just practice.

Extra Credit:
Complete all of the Peak Water activity, including the extra research

Peak Water

Tuesday In Class: NEWS ELA

Login to News ELA through your google PPS account:

Choose the appropriate reading level for yourself, read the article, respond to the quiz and the written questions

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We didn't a chance to do planners today! Things go too busy and exciting with Mic Crenshaw.... Great job challenging yourself, writing, and sharing today!


HW due Tuesday:

1. Mic Crenshaw Spoken Word

Share one thing you wrote today with someone in your family. If you left your writing at school, share one thing you did today with Mic Crenshaw.

Write two bars (sentences) about your evening!

Tomorrow Mic is going to be talking about the Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan that he helps lead. Can you find out one fact about the caravan and write it down?

http://hiphopcaravan.net/2014/?page_id=2

Here is the video Mic shared today: Elegy for John Trudell