Friday, December 4, 2020

 Important Reminders

- Please check the Kennedy's Activity page for updated activities and contests.

- Kennedy Virtual Zen Den is open!

- Complete Project Resilience assignment posted in History.  

Language Art

- watch Narrative Writing Unit minilesson video for Session 3 and Session 4 (username/password are listed in your digital notebook)

- in your Narrative Writing Unit digital notebook:

• under Session 1, create a chart and list people that matter to you as well as small moments with them (watch the Session 1 minilesson video to see an example)
• under Session 2, scan/take a photo of your life map/sketch and upload it to the session slides (see Jack Gantos' example)
• under Session 2, write a personal narrative entry based on an idea from your chart or map

Video tutorial showing you how to transfer your image file to your digital notebook

Sample digital notebook (your digital notebook should look exactly like this one starting on Slide 10)

DUE this Fri. 12/4 @ 1:15 p.m.

- Newsela article: Campaign to end colorism in India (required: WRITE prompt; optional: watch this documentary)

- NoRedInk Assignment #12: Plural vs. Possessive Nouns

OPTIONAL: 

- work on iReady self-paced/adaptive system for Reading (about an hour a week)

QUIZ DATES for The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (study using the resources posted on Google Classroom)

Mon. 12/7 - Chapters 13-15

Math

1.  Complete Personalized Learning 12/3 if you have not done so yet. 

2. For access to CC2, go to Clever, go to Ms. Huang's page,  and find CPM under math.   Make sure you  You can only access if you log in with your school account.  

*Late work/redos are updated once a week.  If you turn in late work/redos after I've updated for that week, you will have to wait until the next week for the update.

Social Studies

1.  Project Resilience:  Watch this video and post on the padlet for your period.  

Lesson 1, Per5

Lesson 1, Per 6

2. Work on Daily Life scavenger activity.  Due Tues. 12/8 by 3pm. 

**You need to turn in a late slip for each assignment you are turning in late separately.  

*Late work/redos are updated once a week.  If you turn in late work/redos after I've updated for that week, you will have to wait until the next week for the update.

Science

PREPARE FOR TUESDAY'S EXPERIMENT:

- the clear box that your science kit came in (you need to clear out everything so we can fill it with water)

- the five styrofoam cups from the kit

- a cup of hot water

- one of the food coloring vials (any color except for yellow is fine)

- medicine dropper

- make sure your pages 1-45 of the Earth Science Digital Notebook matches Ms. Sun's example one

Exploratory

DUE Mon. 12/7

- complete Chapter 11 Notes & Work (make sure you are working in your own copy that was made for you in Google Classroom)

DUE next Mon. 12/7

- "This Book is Anti-Racist" Research Project (posted on Google Classroom); make sure to record your presentation screencast by clicking on the Screencastify link that was posted in Google Classroom (you only need to create one final product between you and your partner but each of you need to do your own presentation recordings)