Nobel Peace Prize Speech
4/27/2018
This week students combined their learning about Malala with their English goal of expanding on their knowledge of rhetorical devices. While we learned about the history and current purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize, students dove in to Malala's acceptance speech and learned about the meaning behind the many different pieces. Most of the speech was watched and discussed as a class, but students also worked in groups to label their assigned section with examples of the devices to share specifics with the rest of the groups. Students were encouraged to use any graphic organizer that they wanted to so the information could be conveyed in a way that they felt appropriate and most logical.
Project Completion
4/13/2018
Our Zombie Apocalypse Survival Kit projects are complete. They took a while, but they also turned out far better than I had anticipated. For this project, students had to decide what they needed for survival in case of a zombie invasion and find creative ways to advertise their products to others. Each project should be persuasive to their audience, use a specific appeal, use correct grammar, and contain figurative language either in their commercial or newspaper ad. Their projects also use lots of the technology that they have available, are creative, and show how well they work together as teams. Most importantly, we accomplished a lot and these projects definitely show their personality. Thank you so much for helping us with these and I hope you love them as much as I do! Zombie DogsBetty put a lot of work in to this project, and so did her pups! Please rate this project and give feedback here. Zask Co. Survival KitConnor had fun and worked hard to perfect his filming! Please rate this project and give feedback here. Penguins Fight BackThe penguins survived! Please provide feedback on this project here. Life Co. ZASKNeil's kit saved the day! Please provide feedback on this project here. Rodents in the WildRodents on rafts! Very creative. Please provide feedback on this project here. The Srungy Survivor KitHayden's company is going to go far. Please provide feedback on his project here. Net.com ZASKFinn is so creative. These projects are great. Please provide feedback on this project here. Eugene ProductionsEugene's project will definitely sell. Please provide feedback on this project here.
Women's Rights
4/6/2018
Some wonderful class time happened around ERBs this week. In Social Studies, we focused on previous Women's Rights milestones, timelines, and important people. During class time, we read and watched videos about powerful women that changed the path, such as Diane Nash, Katherine Switzer, Marlo Thomas, and Gloria Steinem. Students researched the events that have happened over the 20th century that have led to changes in women's and civil rights.
Please ask them what they learned about these topics this week. Especially ask the differences between different groups' fights for rights and why people had a hard time combining efforts. To match this topic, we read about a more current fight for rights by reading and learning about Malala. We watched the movie He Named Me Malala during class time and heard her discuss her heroic story as well as the current impact. During our Reading time, students will learn about present day leaders in the fight for equal rights around the world and how their journeys parallel and differ past fighters. |
AuthorCharlotte Woodside recently moved to Alaska from Central Texas. This is her 8th year teaching middle school. Archives
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