Lesson Plans June 1-12

 

   

End of the Year Schedule

Monday, June 1 - Work on LA Projects: Capstone and CSI
Tuesday, June 2 - Work on LA Projects: Capstone and CSI
Wednesday, June 3 - Capstone Presentations 
Thursday, June 4 - (AVID and Honor Society Trips) - Special DVD Presentation
Friday, June 5 - guest speaker, Mrs. McKone, Summer Reading Ideas, New York Times YA List + PTO Walk for Education

Monday, June 8 - Walk to Milton Theater and Picnic in the Park, $5
Tuesday, June 9 - Field Day
Wednesday, June 10 - Rain Date for Walk to Milton
Thursday, June 11 - Transition Ceremony Rehearsal, Yearbook Signing, Picnic
Friday, June 12 - 9:30 Transition Ceremony Families invited

Language Arts Assignments for the Week of June 1-5

Warm-Up: writing, poem, vocabulary
Poem - Firework by Katie Perry see above
Capstone Project - see below
CSI - Cool Special Interest - do a blog post to describe your interest, include every part that you researched.

DETERMINE which accomplishments and memories you will use for your poster display.  You will create essays and documents to represent your accomplishments.  Everyone must do 3 items on List A and choose 3 from List B.  

List A                                                                                     List B

Certificate – a special accomplishment                                   Timeline – life events, a sequence

Bio Sketch – your biography                                                  Pictures of you – photos or sketch    

Resume –tells about your qualifications for a job                    Symbols - icons that tell about you

Letter – thanking someone for helping you                             Brochure – a place you have been

Essay – your proudest moment or                                        Cartoon – a story drawn about you

the person you most admire                                                   Friendship Map –map your friends

Homework for Language Arts Classes

         

• Keep reading - establish Summer Reads
• Return all books to class and library
• See the board for daily assignments  

 

 

Social Studies Core 4 Homework
Listen to the news and bring in relevant, recent news stories to discuss. Write a summary and reflection of one news article for the week.

Geography Quiz
Country of the Week: none due to no computers

CNN Student News
EQ:What is happening in the world and how does it impact our lives?
Every day the class watches CNN Student News. Ask Jake or Gian to run the computer projector.
Discuss the news stories.

Social Studies Lessons

Video Song - The Constitution  
Chapter 10 - The Bill of Rights Project
Do the Project for this chapter: create a booklet that has a page for each of the 10 Bills of Rights
Presentation to the class
Special DVD on the Constitution
Special Travel lesson