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.

Week of 10/26/30 - 10/30/20

 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: Which of the 50 states has the highest population?

Circle: What is one of your pet peeves?

5 Themes: We will be going over the five themes of geography and how they impact us. 

Location: We will be learning about relative and absolute location. We will be doing a quick lesson on how to read latitude and longitude.

Place: We will be talking about what place is in relation to the five themes. Students will be completing an example for the high school.

Movement: We will be talking about what movement is. Students will be trying to come up with examples of movement in the United States.

Human/Environment Interaction: We will be talking about what Human/Environment Interaction is. Students will be thinking about how they adapt to and change their environment. 

Region: We will be learning about what a region is. We will be trying to come up with different regions for the state of Maine. 

My Town Project: Students will be introduced to the "My Town" project.

On Zoom

Pod B: Students will be completing their argumentative paragraph for the Lunchroom Fight. 

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

Week of 10/19/20 - 10/23/20

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 informed on the major political issues in our country and where the candidates stand on those issues. 

QOD: Two countries have over a billion people in them, name them both. What American was known as the "father of his country?"

Circle: If you had to get a tattoo, what would it be of? If you had to sing karaoke in front of the whole school, what song would you pick?

Claim, Evidence, Warrant: We will be talking about what claim, evidence, and warrant writing is and how to do it. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/mwollaeger/cdw.htm

Lunchroom Fight: Students will be looking over the lunchroom fight scenario, and will be reading the different witness statements. 

Lunchroom Fight Evidence: After reading the witness statements, students will be evaluating each witness. Students will try to identify what biases each witness might have, and will ultimately have to rank how reliable they think each witness is.

Homework: Students will be finishing the Evidence Context chart for the Lunchroom Fight. 

Zoom:

Pod B: Students will be working on their bias videos. All information for these videos is on Google Classroom.

Pod A: Students will be completing their argumentative paragraph for the Lunchroom Fight. 

Week of 10/13/20 - 10/16/20

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 informed on the major political issues in our country and where the candidates stand on those issues. 

QOD: On what day of the year does America vote for president. 

Circle: What's your favorite season and why?

Political Issues: Students will be doing some research on the major political issues surrounding this election. We will be making a master list of some of the major issues as a class. 

Discussion & Questions: Students will get to talk in groups about which issues are most important to them and why. They will then get a chance to ask any questions that they have about the issues.

Issues and Candidates: Students will be completing an assignment on Google Classroom where they will talk about which issues are most important to them, where they stand on that issue, and which candidate aligns closer with their belief.