Homework Reminder Due 9.10.12

Hello All,

Now that you have completed two days of school, I would like to remind you of what is due on Monday. Please bring with you the following:

1.) All 3 Blue Cards signed and completed by your parents
2.) All school welcome letters signed and completed by your parents
3.) The revised and updated welcome letter to parents about your ELA teacher that I gave you on Friday. Make sure that your parents have completed the bottom portion of the letter. Please disregard the first one I gave you on the first day.
4.) All ELA supplies:  3 marble composition notebooks
                                 3 folders with pockets (Reading, Writing and High School Folder)
                                 4GB or 8GB flash drive (mandatory)

                           A pack of multi-colored pens

                           1 pack of 8 ½ x 11 white copy paper (IT IS OK IF YOU DON'T BUY THIS)

                           Library card (mandatory)

If you received a library card application from me, PLEASE RETURN IT TO THE LIBRARY NOT TO ME! Don't forget to follow the instructions that are printed on the form.

Lastly, don't forget that your first set of ELA pre-diagnostic tests will be next week. These tests can be used as grades so please take each test seriously.

Have a wonderful weekend! : )

PBH - Journal Entries

Hello Graduates!

This is it! I just wanted to let you know that the last assignment for this unit is due on Monday. The journal entries should be on paper not in your journals you used early this year. If you have started in your journals make copies of what you've written so far. I don't want you to feel as though your previous journal entries will be read. Please be creative. You can use construction paper or hard paper (cardstock) as the cover and write, for example, "Diary of Lu Yong" largely across the top with your name or group's name with class and date at the bottom. You can place the picture of the immigrant I gave you on the front page or select historical images online. On the inside you can use blank or lined paper for journal entries. You want to use paper that was close to what was used during that time as possible, with an acception of the construction paper. Please remember that you are required to write 10 journal entries if you work alone or as a group. However, the group can divide the entries evenly amongst each other. Please use dates during that time period (i.e. March 4, 1944).  Please also use historical facts and events that occurred during that time to make your work more authentic.

To close the historical fiction unit we will watch two movies on separate days as of next week.

All permission slips for field day must be returned either to the gym teacher or your homeroom teacher.

Bring two #2 pencils for Monday's Science test.

Enjoy your weekend!

PBH - H.F. Unit Due Date Reminders

•May 31st – Historical Fiction Traditional Food Menu Presentation (in class oral presentation)

•June 1st – H.F. Traditional Food Celebration Presentation (in class). Unfortunately both classes will not present together due to conflicts with projects due to other teachers.

•June 4th – H.F. 10 Journal Entries (please note that you should include an authentic name, historical dates and events, what life was like, etc.) Please refer to the format I provided for you in class. It was two sheets consisting of the menu and journal entry format. The journal entry format had 10 questions broken into two sets of five questions each. You can type, hand write or type it as a powerpoint presentation slide show. It is up to you! Just make sure to make it authentic(real).

PBH - H.F. Unit Menu/Journal Entries

Please follow the outline I provided in class for you.

The menu will be due on May 31st. You can choose any design you want for the menu (i.e. pamphlet accordion style, foldable program style (just like you fold it for the word wall), or flyer style (like what I used for the poetry night cafe). It is up to you. Please use the colors of the country of your "adopted" immigrant.

Due June 1st: The food presentation, which is only ONE food item (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, beverage, or sauces) that you selected from the menu to showcase for the H.F. Food Fest. Only one item are you required to bring in not the entire menu. That would be crazy and unrealistic!

If you have any questions, please email me. The Research Questions 1-6 that was posted on the SMART board in class is on the blogspot, just scroll down. If you have not finished answering the research questions, please understand that by completing the journal entries you are thereby answering 1-6 simultaneously. This cuts your time in half so that you will not have to do double the work. I will count the grade twice by just doing the journal entries alone without also doing 1-6. This will make it easier on you.

Working with Partners
If you and another classmate have the same country, please work together to share and alleviate the workload. You can share ingredients to buy at the store, divide the menu of traditional foods in half so that each person is researching only their categories of food, and share the journal entries in half. Also, if you have already selected a name for your adopted immigrant, you can make them sisters and brothers, twins, cousins, or whatever seems to work with you and your classmate. It is a joint grade, so you must work hard together, the grade of what you produce alone or in a group depends on you.

THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSES! I HAVE GIVEN YOU TIME TO WORK ON IT IN CLASS. IF YOU WASTE TIME AND IT IS NOT COMPLETED BY THE DUE DATE, THEN YOU KNOW WHAT GRADE YOU WILL RECEIVE.

PBH Due 5.29.12

1. Please take your journal out of hiding and blow the dust off of it because you will need it for the Historical Fiction Unit.

2. You are required to write 10 journal entries, however 5 will be written in class and the last 5 will be completed at home. Please note that in order to write these journal entries, especially the first 5 you will need online research for facts to support your responses.

3. The 5 entries at home must be about the immigrant's life in the United States. What are the difficulties he/she faced when they arrived? (i.e. language barriers, no education, gender inequality, no work, etc.) How did he/she overcome the difficulties? What success or accomplishments did he/she gain?

4. The H.F. Food Celebration is tentatively going to be held on June 1, 2012. Please make sure you have spoons, a knife, spatula, etc. that is necessary to serve the food. DO NOT EXPECT THAT UTENSILS WILL BE THERE WAITING FOR YOU!

5. You must have a menu ready for your in class presentations. You can choose to video tape your presentation with music and paraphenalia from the immigrants country as your background while you give a short history of the migration and the history of the food. However, you must have a printed menu. Keep it simple if you wish!

Trip

If it rains tomorrow the trip will be canceled!

Historical Fiction Research Questions

 
These are the historical fiction research questions that need to be completed in order to progress in this unit (i.e. journal entries and H.F. short stories) and have our food celebration at the end. Please continue to do your research. Each class will use these questions as an introduction and basic knowledge of historical fiction and will receive slightly different assignments within this unit. You will find out the rest later on.

   }1. Why did the immigrant migrate to the U.S. during that time period?

}2. What historical events were happening during this time?

}3. What difficult times were they facing?

}4. What types of jobs were they able to work?

}5. What type of education did they receive? If they couldn’t why not?

}6. What was life like when they arrived in the U.S.? What challenges did they face?

Lastly, please check SKEDULA for updated grades. What I have not received from you is now a zero unless the deadline has not passed. As was mentioned in previous posts, if you haven't submitted your poetry portfolio today, May 18th was the last day. As for the sports bundles, May 25th is the last day. Please scroll down to read details.