Thursday

Welcome back to just English.  We took a few minutes to reorient ourselves in our books. Then we pulled up our slideshows and went to the kidblog linked above and answered the blog post for today. It simply asks us to reflect on the status of our slides so we can prioritize what is needed for a fantastic presentation on Tuesday.  Editing, whitespace issues, pictures, links etc...

HW: read
new logs are due 11/10  150 minutes with stickies!

Wednesday

I hear you did lots of good work on your slides while I was at my conference today. Thanks for working hard!
HW: slideshow ready to present on Tuesday
no blocking tomorrow.

Tuesday 10/28

Link to our slideshow for ideas 

One person will do statistics slide and Eyewitness slide
the other person will do the political/historical slide and the then and now slide

We will give time to brainstrom ideas in class and to give hints for searching but mostly students will spend time working on their assigned slides.  ALl 4 slides are due by the end of the block tomorrow.

Monday 10/26

Today we worked on slide #5.
Your HW is to:
Complete the impact slide (#5)
Create an alternate title for your topic on slide #1
Complete your notes packet

Thursday 10/23

Today we did a quick mini lesson on plagiarism. Students were then asked to fix their paragraphs to make sure they were in their own words.  We had intended to do a peer editing session but did not get to that periods 2 and 3.  The second part of the block started off with a quick overview of expectiations for slide number 2 then students were set off on the task of completing slides 1-4 for Monday. All links should work. All typos should be corrected. All components of hte slide should be present and suggested format followed. Please see the slideshow with directions link to the right.  Scroll down to slide #11 for the model slideshow and rules (just afer all the red slides that were meant to guide your template).

We will grade slides 1-4 on Monday. This will be major grade in both ss and in Eng.

Wednesday 10/22

Today we did lots of work today on the topic slide.  Be sure to check out the "daily rundown" link to the right for more details about class.

HW:  The topic slide is due tomorrow with its well-crafted paragraph and image from a reliable source.

Tuesday 10/21

Today we worked on answering the research questions you did for homework last night. We used books from class to do this and then we worked on filling in the notes packet that we started on Friday.

During the second part of the block students were instructed to work on their background slides because tomorrow they have to be completed and the partners will give a mini presentation that walks through background information with Mr. Clark.

HW: Be sure to complete the third slide which is background information--check the slideshow with directions link to the right to make sure you have all elements of this slide complete.  Know your background information so you can present it to us tomorrow.