Week of January 11, 2021 - January 15, 2021

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will understand the reasons why people live where they live.

QOD: What spell that Harry Potter is famous for is used to fight Dementors?

Circle: Do you think your personality has been shaped more by your family or your friends?

Syria Webquest: In class you will be working to complete the Syrian Webquest that is posted on Google Classroom. You have the option to work on this as an individual or as a small group of 2-3 max.

Upfront Article: If you get done with the Syrian Webquest, you will read "A Deadly Journey" starting on page 13. After reading, you will write a short reaction to the article.

Virtual Students

History of US Immigration: You will be watching the video and answering the questions on Google Classroom.

Refugee Crisis Research: You will be following the instructions for this assignment on Google Classroom. 

Week of January 4, 2021 - January 8, 2021

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will understand the reasons why people live where they live.

QOD: What is the tallest mountain in New England? What is the tallest dog breed in the world?

Circle: What is one highlight from your vacation? Would you rather be able to get away with any lie you tell, or be able to detect any lie told to you?

Five Big Things: What are five places you really want to go sometime in your life?

Push & Pull Factors: I will be introducing what push & pull factors are. You will then be researching & brainstorming what possible push and pull factors might be.

American Immigration: We will be working with the article below to discuss the current trends of American Immigration. We will be trying to find out where people are coming from, and WHY they are coming to America. 

https://immigrationforum.org/article/push-or-pull-factors-what-drives-central-american-migrants-to-the-u-s/

"Death Train": We will be watching this video that follows a group of people's journey to America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSwwO00qeB0

Discussion: We will be having group discussions and then a class discussion about the video we watched. What do we think the United States should do about what is going on in these South American countries?

Writing: You will be writing a reflection in Google Classroom based on what you have learned today.

Virtual Students

After circle, you will be leaving zoom and working on your own.

Exploration: You should explore this website. Some of it may be a little confusing and that's okay, just do your best! Your goal is to learn about the process for becoming an American citizen. After looking through this website, take a look at this link which will show you the civics test you have to pass in order to become a citizen.

Here is another link that may also be helpful.

Please make sure to take a look through all of those websites. You are more than welcome to do you own research as well and look at other websites!

Writing: After looking through the links above, you will go to Google Classroom and complete the assignment on there titled "Citizenship Process".  

Week of 11/30/20 - 12/4/20

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will understand the reasons why people live where they live.

QOD: Which state has the highest percentage of tree cover?

Circle: Are you a person that likes or dislikes surprises?

Finding a New Homeland: You will be working together in groups to complete the Finding a New Homeland activity. We will then be having a discussion as a class about why you chose the location you did.

City & Road Locations: We will be having a quick discussion on how cities and roads have developed, and why they are where they are today. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-200-years-of-u-s-population-density/

Where people live: We will be reading this article that talks about factors people today need to consider when deciding where to live. https://medium.com/@jinlinh/the-most-important-factors-in-choosing-a-place-to-live-39f39f2fc7ed

We will then be having group, and class discussions on these factors. Which factors do you think were most important to your family when they decided to live here?

Factors Writing: You are going to do a quick writing assignment talking about the three most important factors that landed your family in Maine.

About Me: You will be starting to work today on your About Me assignment that's part of your How Did I Get Here project.

Friday 11/19/20

 Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will be able to analyze documents, and write a persuasive essay using the information from those documents.

QOD: What is the name of the world's largest and hottest desert? 

Circle: What TV or Movie character would you want to hang out with for the day?

Climate Change Mini Q: We will be working on answering the questions for the Climate Change Mini Q in class today. Students will be answering the questions together in breakout rooms. After having group discussions, we will have a full class discussion.

Tuesday 11/17/20

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will be able to analyze documents, and write a persuasive essay using the information from those documents.

QOD: What is the name of the world's largest and hottest desert? 

Circle: Which app on your phone do you use the most?

Climate Change Mini Q: We will be working on answering the questions for the Climate Change Mini Q in class today.

Week of 11/9/20 - 11/13/20

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills.

QOD: English is the most spoken language in the world, what is the second most spoken? What is the biggest ocean in the world?

Circle: If you could only have one meal for a week, what meal would you choose? What's the longest you've ever been away from home?

Five Big Things: Students will be sharing what their five favorite activities are.

Map Analysis: Students will be talking in small groups about the answers that they gave for the map analysis questions. We will then be discussing them as a class.

Color Coding: We will quickly be going over how to color code a paragraph.

Map Analysis Summative: Students will be working on their Map Analysis Paragraphs.

On Zoom

Pod B: Students will be working to answer the map analysis questions.

Pod A: Today will be a makeup work day. If you have completed all of your summative assignments, then you do not need to work on anything this period.

Week of 11/2/20 - 11/6/20

  Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills.

QOD: Who was the last president to not serve a second term?

Circle: What is your least favorite household chore to do?

Creating Regions: Students will be working together in class to make at least 5 regions of the United States. Students will need to name at least 3 unifying characteristics for each region. All of the details are posted on Google Classroom.

On Zoom

Pod B: Students will be working on and completing their "My Town" project.

Pod A: Students will be working on analyzing maps.