Happy Holidays!!!

Happy holidays everyone, I hope you use this winter recess to regroup and enjoy the time off. Each and everyone of you deserve the time off. All of us have worked really hard in the past four months. I have seen you make gains and apply the skills that each teacher at 751M have taught you.

 

**Homework packets have been sent home and the final project needs to be finalized.

 

**If you need additional help to complete the assignment, please ask your parents, guardian, or siblings to help out. Or you can always email me at msyip751@gmail.com***

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Another important reminder, I will be changing rooms and subject area with Ms. Lee (room 403) when we come back from the winter break. Ms. Lee will be teaching ADL. She is aware of how we conduct our class. She will follow the same routines that are firmly in place such as the blog, class attendance and organization of class supplies, trip, and binder/folder system, and data collection.
I will be next door if you need help or just a simple smile.

Project

As we wrap up this month's reading, I would like each of you to think about a final project. I want you to challenge yourself and be as creative as possible. You have the option of writing a poem, performing a skit,  singing a song, a rap or creating a dance--all these different ways of interpreting the concepts  taught during this month. Generate or brainstorm some ideas you are comfortable completing over the winter recess break. I will give you time during class; however, the project will be finalized during the winter recess break.

Mr. Padilla (Global Studies), Mr. Timmins (ELA), and I (ADL) are collaborating on this final project. 
Please come to class tomorrow ready to share your ideas and your action plan.


Here is an idea for the students who were in my class last year:

Prezi Presentation Example

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Nelson Mandela aka Mr. Grit

Many of you went on the community trip on Friday to see "Long Walk to Freedom." A movie about Nelson Mandela which tied into the novel and work we have been doing this month. For homework tonight, I would like you to write about how Nelson Mandela demonstrated grit. If you need reminding of the definition of grit, please refer back to past posts. 

 

Option 1

Homework: Complete the following assignment:

1) How did Nelson Mandela demonstrate grit in his life?

2) In what areas of his life did he was the most "gritty"?

3) How can you apply his examples of grit to your own life?

Option 2

For the students that did not attend the trip, could you please apply the three questions above to any member of the Finch, Cunningham, and Ewell family in To Kill a Mockingbird. 

Mayella Ewell

Bob Ewell

Atticus Finch

Scout Finch

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GRIT! What is it! Do you have it?

Angela Lee Duckworth talks about her foundings at a 

TED Talks conference

"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint."--Angela Lee Duckworth

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Please click to see-->The Key to Success

"So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset." This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition."--Angela Lee Duckworth

Homework: Complete 1 of 3 option. Be prepared to share out with your classmates and make connections to this month's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Option 1: Do you have grit? If not or do, please explain how you demonstrate grit in your life. Provide evidence of grit by listing 5 ways in different areas of your life (school, home, and work or your community).

Option 2: Do you have grit? If not or do, please explain how you demonstrate grit in your life. Provide evidence of grit by writing 4 complete sentences in the different areas of your life (school, home, and work or your community).

Option 3: Do you have grit? If not or do, please explain how you demonstrate grit in your life. Provide evidence of grit by writing 5 complete sentences in the different areas of your life (school, home, and work or your community).

**If you need additional help to complete the assignment, please ask your parents, guardian, or siblings to help out. Or you can always email me at msyip751@gmail.com***

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Homework

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3: Compare and contrast the Cunninghams and Ewells in 5 complete sentences.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Main Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout

Mockingbird--symbol of innocence

Arthur Boo Radley

Jem Finch watches his Dad Atticus
 from the balcony of the courtroom.

Dill Harris

Atticus in court defending Tom Robinson.

Atticus and Tom Robinson in court.

Homework: Complete 1 of 3 options.

Option 1: Please write 3 sentences describe your view of the Finches based on the reading so far. 

Option 2: Please write 5 sentences describe your view of the Finches based on the reading so far. 

Option 3: Please write 5 sentences describe your view of the Finches based on the reading so far. Please include the provide the textual evidence in the book. This means identifying the page number where you found your evidence. 

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."--Nelson Mandela

What doe the South African flag symbolize?

RED--the blood of the country

WHITE--the white people who live in South Africa

GREEN--the green landscape of the country

BLUE--the color of the sky in South Africa

YELLOW--the gold found and built the country

BLACK--the black people who live in South Africa

Y--the shape/letter symbolizes unity

Please click to view presentation-->Nelson Mandela

For information about Nelson Mandela, 

please also view this-->Nelson Mandela & Sports

More Information, please click onto-->New York Times Tribute

Homework: Complete 1 of 3 options.

Option 1: Please write 3 sentences describing how apartheid in South Africa is  similar to segregation in Alabama in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Option 2: Please write 5 sentences describing how apartheid in South Africa is  similar to segregation in Alabama in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Option 3: Please write 5 sentences describing the effects of apartheid in South African and the effects of segregation in Alabama in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, specifically the town of Maycomb.

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WORD!

Student analysis of vocabulary in To Kill A Mockingbird
while we identified the prefixes to help 
increase knowledge and skills of decoding words. 

Homework 1

Homework 2

In addition to the worksheet above, write complete sentences for each word. The sentences should relate back to the text. *For example, Tom Robinson was unhappy when he was convicted of a crime he did not commit.*

Homework 3

For those that did not do last night's homework, please do so. A student mentioned that they were not able to read the three different modified texts. If you encountered this problem, please click on the text/picture and it will enlarge. Then, of course, answer the questions. 

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Welcome Back!

Welcome Back Everyone!!! Hope everyone had a restful and thankful four days off. Today we viewed the video summary from www.shmoop.com and reviewed the homework assigned over the Thanksgiving break. 

Students completed a word web by brainstorming
 the definition of a key theme, social injustice, in
To Kill a Mockingbird. We also discussion the prefix
 'in-' (not, without) to aid the identification of injustice. 

Homework: Complete 1 of 3 options. Read the modified text and answer the following questions. 

Text A

Text B

Text C

Questions: 

1. What other novel did we read that talked about the Great Depression?

2. Where does the novel take place? Be sure to include the town and state.

3. Please list the members of the Finch and Radley family. 

4a. Please infer/predict why Arthur Radley is nicknamed Boo.

4b. Please infer/predict why Boo Radley does not leave his home. 

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