Bias Questions

What Bias is your article talking about?

Does the author of your article have a bias about this? Explain.

How do you think this bias came to exist in the first place?

How do you think someone might defend this bias?

Conference Schedule

PT Collections 2

What is the Horror Genre is all about what makes a horror story different from other types of writing.  Use those different elements to describe how they are used in The Tell-Tale Heart and/or The Monkey’s Paw.

Revolution Skit 10/25

HW 10/20

After our in-class Declaration Re-Write.  Remember, your response homework!

Rewrite Assignment 10/27

Rewrite this section of Patrick Henry's famous speech the way someone might say it today.

10/11 Propaganda

Performance Task For Collections 1

 Collection 1 Perfomance Task A: Write an Informtive Essay

(Suggested brochure format)

In response to the high number of immigrants moving to Pasco, WA the Pasco School District is seeking strategies to help immigrants develop their own identity within a new culture. Your school leadership has decided to produce a brochure to assist students and families as they adjust to life in the United States. Your task is to research possible obstacles as well as tips and resources people can access.

Your informational brochure containing visuals will be judged by a classroom committee prior to being presented to the school leadership.

Additional resources students may use:

http://www.bentonfranklintrends.ewu.edu/

https://www.census.gov/

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/

http://www.seattle.gov/immigrant-and-refugee-commission

Five Source Bibliography

Due Monday an annotated bibliography for your term paper.  Minimum of five sources written in MLA format.  Remember EasyBib and ProQuest are great resources.  Have a great weekend!

ProQuest

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Immigration Chart

Quiz on the thirteen colonies tomorrow!

HW 9/27

The following is the work for history today. Also, by Friday students need to find read and print an article on immigration in America for our in-class discussion.

PT 9/22

Students either typed or hand wrote their performance task for the short story "My Favorite Chaperone" today.  They will have fifteen minutes in class on Monday to finish this but many students will need additional time at home to get to that point.  The PT is a summary describing the plot, characters, and resolution of the story.

HW for 9/21

Students had the following notebook work and a comparison sheet on Jamestown and Plymouth found on the agenda.

Homework

2, 3b-c, and 4 drawing conclusions

Busy Week!

Sorry about not having many posts at the start of the year, things have been pretty crazy! A lot has gone into grades recently and please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about them. We did have a quiz today about the play Lost Colony. Also, our term paper topic decision and Roanoke Vocab sheets were turned-in today. Lastly, in ELA today students created a chart showing their personal family relationships to compare to the story "My Favorite Chaperone" we are reading in Collections.

Open House Tonight!

Stop by Room 180 and sign-in to get some extra credit!

For Friday Sept. 1

Please bring your composition notebook, a picture of yourself, a picture that represents your favorite after school activity, a picture that represents your favorite school subject, and one picture of your choice. These will be used to decorate your Language Arts Notebook.

Mac Team Snickers 17—18

Welcome 2017-2018 Students

I would like to personally welcome all new students to Room 180! Thanks also to the parents for stopping by, please fill out the parent questionnaire.

One Week!

We are less than a week away from a new school year!

Presentation on Creativity in Schools

Proquest Log in

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Rewrite the Gettysburg Address In Your Own Words

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Collections 4 PT

We started our C4 PT in class today.

FINAL DAY OF ELA SBA TESTING!!!!!!

Relay for Life

WEAR PURPLE FRIDAY

Wednesday's Quizzes

Two Quizzes Tomorrow!
Check the list of literary devices to make sure you understand them for ELA!
To help study for the US History Quiz here is the Jeopardy game we played in class Click Here.

Literary Devices

Create examples of these terms for homework!

America Story of US-Civil War

Today we watched the Episode from the "America Story of US" series called "Civil War."  The worksheet that goes along with the video can be found on the agenda fort today (5/5/17).

Anaconda Plan

Monday-Tuesday SBA Math Testing

Get some Zs!
Algebra Block- Mr. Corona
Geometry Block- Mr. Smith

Friday April 28 Poetry Analysis

Pick a famous poem, like a Shakespearean Sonnet or anything by Robert Frost, and in your ELA notebook write one paragraph about literary techniques used in the poem and one paragraph about the meaning and purpose.

Analyzing Bias

Students today analyzed bias from an article about Southern Secession.

Students doing practice SBAC

Websites Needed for Kansas-Nebraska Act Web Quest

http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act

http://www.historynet.com/kansas-nebraska-act

http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas

HW: April 20 Political Cartoon on Compromise of 1850 and T-Chart

Students completed a T-Chart discussing the pros and cons of the Compromise of 1850 and stapled it to a political cartoon they made about the same compromise.

HW 4/18: Arg. Essay Sources

Remember to have completed pages 12-16 in your "Performance Assessment" book before class starts on Wednesday.

4-13

ELA Class Today

Informative Essays Due 4-14

Reminder: Your Informative Essays are due at the start of class Friday April 14th!

Spring Break

Have a great Spring Break and get ready for Fourth Quarter!

HW 3-22 Marigolds Analysis Questions

Jeopardy Review

Early US History Jeopardy
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/early-united-states5

Journal Work: Lewis and Clark Diary

Write a fictional diary entry as if you were on the Corp of Discovery.  You must describe one challenged you faced, a discovery you made, and the entry must include a drawing.

Castles

Enhancement class making medieval castles!

HW Feb 24

A completed outline and first draft of the CBA is due by the start of class on Monday.

Diary of Anne Frank Act I Analysis Questions HW 2-23

1. Which character from the play do you think is most like you? Why? (Use text evidence)

2. What part of being in hiding do you think is most difficult for Anne? Describe using text evidence.

CBA

Check the agenda for February 21 for CBA files.

Anne Frank Scenes 1-3 Questions

The following is a suggested formatting for questions that require text evidence from the play.

1. ______(any character)_______ and _______(any character)__________ have a _____(descriptive word)___________ relationship because in the text....(text evidence)

2. Margot is ...(describe her character) ... because in the text ....(text evidence) 

3. I predict that by the end of the play ... (prediction)... because in the text...(text evidence)

Homework 2-16

Make sure you have completed the Anne Frank Diary play Scene 3 for class tomorrow!  Also do not forget our special guest!

Homework for 2-2-17 and ProQuest

Students are asked to find and read an article about Syrian Refugees today for homework.  If at all possible, please print the article and bring it to class tomorrow for our Socratic Seminar.  If printing is not available, please make sure to bring notes, author, date, and publisher of the article.

ProQuest is a terrific resource our school pays for to find credible sources.  I will link ProQuest below and list the login information for McLoughlin.  This would be a great help with tonight's homework.

ProQuest

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Club Picture Day

Today was Club Picture Day at MAC.  As such, several students were out of class for awhile.  However, they did not miss instruction as the other students reviewed for the quiz on Chapters 1-8 of Parallel Journeys we took upon everyone's return.

In class work Jan 31.

Mac World Update

Students should have brought home a parent letter and informational sheet about Mac World this week.  Over the next several weeks we will be exploring the Holocaust in Language Arts and in a smaller part in Social Studies as well.  Today we are watching the History Channel special "The Rise of the Third Reich/"

Jan 24 Homework

Memorize Your Preamble for the Test!

Welcome Back

Welcome Back!  Winter Break sure went by quickly, but now it is time to get back to work.  Make sure, you have your reading logs filled out and ready for class!