Friday, April 13, 2018

Important Reminders:
- get April newsletter and grade print-out signed if you haven't — review tips from September and October newsletters
- send Ms. Sun your baby photo to mysunshineteacher@yahoo.com
- Mrs. O could use tissue and binder paper donations
- please restock your pencils and erasers and clean out backpacks over the break

Language Arts  
- finish up My Democracy Project; you should finish your website and start working on the media product (whether individually or in a group — up to three people) — everything due Thursday, May 17

- Newsela article due Mon. 4/23: Malala Yousafzai: "I can bring the change that I want to see" (make sure you read the directions and take the quiz at the end as well as the complete the WRITE prompt)

- NoRedInk Assignment #26: Hyphens due Mon. 4/23


Social Studies
- Studies Weekly #18: Judaism Survives due Wed. 4/25

- if you need to make up any old Studies Weekly assignments and have lost the printed version, make sure you come get your login information from Ms. Sun so you can access the online version

- check out Optional Challenges for the Greece Unit

Math
Corrections on Homework
Signed Assessment and Parent Signature

Science
Volcano Story and Picture

Exploratory (Oliveira)
No Homework

Exploratory (Sun)
- finish Journal Entry #1: (due Mon. 4/23)

• What do you think of Alfred Hitchcock's film-making style? How has he grown as a filmmaker from the time he made "Rear Window" to the time "Vertigo" was made? Provide evidence.
• How does cutting and editing allow Hitchcock to show "things that are not really there?" (i.e. think about the scene where Scottie watched Madeleine walk by in the restaurant or the beginning falling off the roof scene).

OR you can opt to write on the original prompt:

Alfred Hitchcock is regarded as an extraordinary filmmaker and the "master of suspense." Discuss ways in which he builds up the interest of the audience to get them involved in the story line, all the way to the "cliffhanger" (climax). Are there special techniques he uses to do this?