Conservation, week 5

We will be able to discuss pollution and how it impacts our world.

Monday

• Article - read this article. Turn to me when you are done and shout your name out.
• How can air pollution be combated?
• Sound Pollution
• Ocean Pollution presentation 2

Tuesday
Wednesday

• Light Pollution
• Soil Pollution
• Water Plant

Thursday
Friday

Research Investigations, week 5

This week, I will:

1. test my egg catching contraption.
2. create a language and story using that language.

Monday

• Egg drop - round 1
• write a story with the starting sentence: "Once upon a time, there was a clumsy engine mechanic who collected space trash."

Tuesday

• Share stories
• Egg drops - round 2, 3, 4
• Language creation time

Wednesday

• Problem of the day: grab the worksheet
• Who done it? videos
• Language creation time

Thursday

• Reflection - Naked Egg Drop
• Language creation time

Friday

• Problem of the day: grab the worksheet
• Language creation time

Digital Media, week 4

Monday
1. Embedding videos onto our web pages
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Tuesday

1. Photo scavenger document 
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Wednesday

1. Photo scavenger document 
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Thursday

1. Photo scavenger document 
2. CODE (new activity - click on the document)

Conservation, week 4

Monday
Question: There is a bill going through the state of Michigan to make it legal to burn plastics and rubber tires. Is this a good or bad idea? Why?
News article

Tuesday
Question: What are the environmental impacts of a meltdown of a nuclear power plant vs. a trash burning power plant?

Wednesday

• Find a current event that has to do with conservation. Post the link to the article and a short summary of it in the comments section. Comment (as a reply) on two other people's post.
• Expectations for tomorrow
• Presentation: Air Pollution

Thursday

• After yesterday's presentation, what other questions do you still have on air pollution that you would like answered? (Post any questions as a reply to the comment "Air Pollution") This is not saying that yesterday's presentation was not great (it was), but sometimes presentations make us want to know more about a topic.)
• Either:
•  design a national park of your choosing (it can be completely imaginary)
• Done INDIVIDUALLY
• Name your park.
• What can I do there?
• Where would it be?
• Map of the park
• Using your field of pollution, create a document/video/song informing people how they can help reduce the pollution problem.
• Example: Air Pollution could create a video telling people why they should not smoke. (This one cannot be done.)
• Another example...  (This one has lots of ways, but you can only do one. Be sure to include HOW this helps reduce pollution. Ex: Why does driving the speed limit reduce air pollution?)

Friday
Turn in your work from yesterday
Ocean Pollution presentation 1

Research Investigations, week 4

Monday
Why is it that, in general, the hair on a man's head goes grey before the hair in his moustache does?

• Any presentations for "Who done it?"
• Naked Egg Drop

Tuesday

Two naturalists were walking in the country. They were both keen to protect the environment and to conserve nature and wildlife. One said to the other, "I was impressed by the way that you hit the bird." The second replied, "Yes, it was as good as that large bird that you hit earlier." What were they talking about?

• Egg Drop

Wednesday

• Egg drop
• When you are done:
• 1 snowflake (optional)
• Find an origami object you would like to create and send the instructions to Mrs. Rose (optional)
• CODE
• Code.org
• Code Academy 

Thursday
A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment. Why?

• CODE! Go to code.org, scratch.com, or codeacademy.com for activities
• Start next week's project - Ask Mr. Washington for the sheet with directions

Friday

There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

• Egg projects
• Work on next week's project

Conservation - Ocean Pollution

Digital Media, week 3

Monday 
How do I add closed captions to my video?

Tuesday
Videos

Wednesday
YouTube editor - transitions, text, etc.

Thursday
Photo Scavenger Hunt

Friday
* Videos!
* Scavenger Hunt group project

Conservation, week 3

Monday

• Finish our national parks tour

Tuesday

• watch video below
• Answer the questions: (rubric)
• Why are national parks important? Or not important?
• Why is it still important for our government to invest in our national parks when we have a struggling economy?
• Watch 1 video from the Untold Stories

Wednesday
What is pollution?

Thursday
Pollution presentation requirements

Research Investigations, week 3

Monday - Thursday

• Work on the "Who did it?" unit project
• Directions
• You may present this any way you wish (movie, poster, paper, create your own song, etc.)
• You still have to adhere to the school policies when creating your crime scenes.
• Use the crime problem we did as a class as an example.

Wednesday

Paper snowflake

Friday

Origami 

Group 1 Crime Scene

Group 2 Crime Scene

Who dunnit?

Weekly Charge, episode 8.1

Digital Media, week 1

Monday

• Contract building
• weekly announcements

Tuesday  - Snow Day!

Wednesday

• Intros?
• Specials?

Thursday

FILMING

Friday

• Put your videos together with YouTube editor
• How-To videos

Conservation, week 1

Monday

• Contract Building
• What is conservation?

Tuesday - Snow Day!

Wednesday

• Pre-test
• National Parks

Thursday

• National Parks presentations
• With the person at your table, choose one National Park (remember that we decided that it is first come first serve and it does not have to be a USA National Park.)
• You are creating a presentation any way that you see fit with the person next to you.
• requirements
• Other ideas:
• Include MORE information than is required
• Videos
• Pictures of yourself in the park with "testimonials"

Research Investigations, week 1

Monday

• Contract builder

Tuesday - Snow Day

Wednesday

• Inferences

Senior Project, Week 8

This week's checklist:
These are all the documents we need to have done as soon as possible!

1. Letter to Judges
2. Part 2 of I-search paper (see below)
3. Part 3 of I-search paper (see below)
4. Presentation - This can be done a variety of ways. (Power Point, Google Presentation, Prezi, Padlet, your data notebook, etc.)

Senior Project, week 7

Goals this week: Complete first 2 paragraphs of "Letter to Judges" and part 2 of your I-search paper.

Monday 

1. Start "Letter to Judges"
2. work on part 2 of paper
3. work on presentation

Tuesday

1. Class meeting - progress updates
2. work time

Wednesday

1. practice speeches tomorrow
2. work time

Thursday

1. Practice speeches

Friday

1. work time

Senior Project, week 6

Monday - Tuesday

1. Part 1 turned in?
2. Find 3 sources, take notes
   
3. Work on part 2 of your paper. Look at your central question.  How can you answer it?? 
• What is your central question?
• What were the results of your search?
• Write a thesis statement based on your results.
• Support your thesis with data (Cite all facts!)
4. Start working on the introduction of your presentation!!

Wednesday

LIBRARY

Thursday

1. Yearbook dedication page
2. work on part 2, presentations
3. meetings with Mrs. Rose

Friday

1. review Monday's agenda
2. part 2, presentations
3. Practice speeches - May 1 (next Thursday)
4. meetings with Mrs. Rose

Senior Project, Week 5

Monday

1. Part 1 turned in?
2. Find 3 sources, take notes
   
3. Meetings with Mrs. Rose!

Tuesday

1. Dedication page
2. e-parchment
3. sources with notes
4. Meetings with Mrs. Rose!

Senior Project, week 4

Monday

1. Inference, slide
2. Turn in rough draft

Tuesday

1. Inference post test
2. research for part 2 of paper

Wednesday

1. Have you turned in your pictures?
2. READ YOUR EMAIL
3. Find at least 3 sources.
4. Edit part 1 of your paper.

Senior Project, week 3

Monday

1. Inferences - slide 3
2. Sifting through the Data (assessment tomorrow)
3. Work on part 1 of paper --> 
• Attention grabber (for example, why did you choose this topic?)
• What do you already know about your topic?
• What is my topic/central question/project/mentor/etc.? 
• What do I hope to learn from my research/ project/mentor?

Tuesday

1. Inferences - slide 5
2. Sources
3. I-search, part 1
4. Update portfolios

Wednesday

1. Inferences - slide 6
2. doc
3. Info-graphics
4. Group Collaboration

Thursday

1. Inferences - slide 7
2. Write down your inferences on this document.  Today, just find your name and write as many inferences as you can about the situation.  Why would the dog be barking?  Just like yesterday, comment on at least one person's inference.  (If you do not know how to do this, see someone who was here yesterday.)
3. Have you been updating your journals?
4. Work on editing the first part of your I-search paper.  Remember that you should have the following questions answered:
• Attention grabber (for example, why did you choose this topic?)
• What do you already know about your topic?
• What is my topic/central question/project/mentor/etc.? 
• What do I hope to learn from my research/ project/mentor?
5. Start researching to answer your central question.  Do not forget to create source cards for each source you find.  Source cards need to have:
• Name of source. 
• MLA citation information  (Check Senior Project Documents or Easybib.com for help.)
• Links to the document (optional)
• Any notes that you take from this source.
• Any quotes that you may want to use from this source.

Senior Project, week 2

Goals for end of week:

1. Create graphic organizer and send to Mrs. Rose.
2. Choose a topic.
3. Create a list of mentors.
4. Make contact with at least one mentor, or at the very least have a script / email draft created.
5. Have Topic Approval Form turned in.
6. Have Parent Topic Approval Form turned in.
7. Begin Part 1 of I-Search paper

Monday

1. Class contract
2. Goals
3. Topic form
4. Find / make contact with mentor.

Tuesday

1. Class contract?
2. Are we on track for this week?
3. Topic form (New form in Microsoft Word OR Google Doc.)
4. Find / make contact with mentor. 
5. Fill out Mentor Approval Form once you have found a mentor and he/she has agreed to work with you.
6. Now, the Parent Approval for Mentor Form

Wednesday

1. Inferences
2. Class contract?
3. Are we on track for this week?
4. Topic form (New form in Microsoft Word OR Google Doc.)
5. Find / make contact with mentor. 
6. Fill out Mentor Approval Form once you have found a mentor and he/she has agreed to work with you.
7. Now, the Parent Approval for Mentor Form
8. Let's start our papers!  Complete the Sifting Through the Data modules, from 21 Things 4 Students.
• Michigan eLibrary How to Video

Thursday

1. Can you solve the mysteries?
2. Finish all items from Wednesday
3. Start I-Search, part 1.
• What am I doing?  (Topic? Central Question? Project?)
• What do I hope to learn?

Friday

Senior Project, week 1

Goals for end of week:

1. Create graphic organizer and send to Mrs. Rose.
2. Choose a topic.
3. Create a list of mentors.
4. Make contact with at least one mentor, or at the very least have a script / email draft created.

Monday

• Article
• Handbook

Tuesday

• In small groups, read until page 211.  
• Start brainstorming (on paper / computer) for your topic, central question, and mentors.  When you think that you are done, share it with me.  You will need to either take a picture of it (if it is on paper) or a screen shot of it.  You can do this by either printing the screen, or taking a snip of it (go to the "Start" menu.  Find the "snipping tool" - it might take a few minutes the first time.  Select what you want to take a picture of, "save".)  If this is confusing to you, ask another student.  When you have this part done, email the picture to me.  I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Wednesday

• Finish the brainstorming if you need to.  You should be brainstorming, topics, questions, and mentors.  Use the phone book if you need to, or email me if you need help.
• Check out the Contract Building activity.  We will do this in class on Monday, but start thinking about what to put for the various sections.  (You can start now if you want, but just remember we will do it again on Monday.)

Thursday - Friday
The Senior Project "Help Board" is up and running!!  Don't forget to start adding questions and looking for questions that you can help answer!

• Review the Contract Building activity we completed in class yesterday.  Fill out the form at the end of the document.  
• In small groups, start brainstorming goals and rewards for those goals.  We discussed this yesterday.  (Example, all students turn in the final drafts ON TIME AND COMPLETE of part 1 of the research paper, and Mrs. Rose makes the class a cake / brownies / cookies, etc.).  Put your ideas here.
• Finish the brainstorming if you need to.  You should be brainstorming, topics, questions, and mentors.  Use the phone book if you need to, or email me if you need help.
• Once you are done with the brainstorming and you think you have an idea of what you are going to do, start your journal.  We read about it yesterday, but re-read the first steps of the journal if you need to (Our class chapter / textbook, pages 210-211).  Please create this in a Google Doc and share it with me. (trose@ctachargers.org)  Again, as discussed yesterday, if you want to do this on paper, in an actual journal, that is fine.  You will need to keep track of the journal though for the entire trimester.
• Start researching to be sure that you have a central question that you can answer!  Again, we discussed this in class yesterday.  You might have a great topic and project idea, but you may need to do some research about the topic in order to create a central question to research.
• You should now start looking for and making contact with a mentor.  Remember that you cannot send emails nor receive emails from anyone outside of CTA from your Chargers email.  If you are emailing, please have at least 2 people read over what you wrote.  If you are calling, please create a script and again, have at least 2 people read over what you wrote.  Make sure that you are clear in what you need from them.  Read the mentor section of the handbook, and email me if you have questions.  Use the phone if you need to, but you need a script and to ask Mr. Washington for permission.  DO NOT CALL FRIENDS TO CHAT.
• Once you have all this done, read pages 211 - 217 in your chapter.  This part of our chapter is on sources.
• You will be creating your note cards in  a Google Presentation (each slide is a different note card.)  You can use actual note cards, but you are responsible for keeping track of them.  

Modern Business, week 11

Students will...

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Wednesday, 2/19

1. ACT practice / interview question - When are old things better than new things?
2. work time -- Presentations start Friday!

Thursday 2/20

1. ACT / interview question - Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a co-worker who wasn't doing his/her fair share of the work.  What did you do and what was the outcome?
2. Work time!  I am still missing some resumes, and cover letters! (Along with those flyers!)

Friday, 2/21

1. ACT practice / interview question - Tell me about a time in which you participated in a team.  What was your role?
2. Presentations!

Modern Business, week 10

Monday

1. Interview question  - What would the person that likes you the least, say about you?  (from Forbes Magazine)
2. Flyers? Resumes? Cover Letters?
3. Power Point presentations - see documents for project assignment

Tuesday

1. Interview question - When is it OK to lie?
2.  presentation guidelines 
3. Flyers? Resumes? Cover Letters?
4. Power Point presentations - see documents for project assignment

Wednesday

1. Interview question - brain maze
2. Flyers? Resumes? Cover Letters?
3. Power Point presentations - see documents for project assignment

Thursday

1. Interview question - How does a person become courageous?
2. Flyers? Resumes? Cover Letters?
3. Power Point presentations - see documents for project assignment.  Be ready 

Friday  - No school!  Start of Mid-Winter Break!

ACT practice, English, Passage 5

Passage reading 

Practice questions (presentation)

Web 2.0, week 7

Daily Agenda

1. ACT practice
2. announcements
3. project work times
• Check course documents for all project rubrics and how-to help.  
• Check Trello boards!

Modern Business, week 7

Monday - No School

Tuesday

1. ACT practice (Interview questions) - Why wouldn't I hire you?

Wednesday

1. ACT practice (Interview questions) - What are the best dates to run a marketing campaign in your country?  Why?

Thursday

1. ACT practice (Interview questions) - If you were a Sony product, 

Friday

1. ACT practice (Interview questions) - Why wouldn't I hire you?

Web 2.0, week 6

Daily Agenda

1. ACT practice
2. announcements
3. Monday : Class meeting - conferences, data days?
4. project work times
• Check course documents for all project rubrics and how-to help.  
• Check Trello boards!

Modern Business, Week 6

Monday, 1/13

1. ACT practice
2. Warm up question: If you were given a box of pencils, list 10 things that you could do with them that are not their traditional use.
3. Business letters!
4. resume / cover letter
• Can use canva.com to create a header for your resume to make it stand out from the others. 
• Cover letter help
• OWL Purdue
• Virginia Tech

Tuesday, 1/14

1. ACT practice
2. Warm up question: How would you test an elevator?
3. resume / cover letter

Wednesday, 1/15

1. ACT practice
2. Warm up question: If you were a street sign, what would you be?
3. Publisher!
• How to video
• Creating: college flyer for a teacher, business card

Thursday, 1/16

1. ACT practice
2. Warm up question: Tell me something that you have done in your life that you are particularly proud of.
3. Publisher

Friday, 1/17

1. ACT practice
2. Warm up question: Tell me a joke.
3. Publisher

web 2.0, week 5

Jan 6-10

Students will be creating digital artifacts using web 2.0 tools.

Monday - Snow day

Tuesday - Snow day

Wednesday 

1. ACT practice
2. announcements
3. Prezi
4. Animoto / Photo Peach
5. current work
• Digital Footprint presentation
• Trello - Shared with me
• Glogster - embedded in your blog
• Voki - embedded in your blog
• Symbaloo - link on your blog

Thursday

1. ACT practice
2. announcements
3. current work
• Digital Footprint presentation
• Trello - Shared with me
• Glogster - embedded in your blog
• Voki - embedded in your blog
• Symbaloo - link on your blog
4. Done?
• Prezi
• Animoto / Photo Peach

Friday - Data Day

Modern Business, week 5

(Jan 6-10)
Students will be able to understand all the ways in which Microsoft Word can be used to create professional documents.


Monday - Snow day

Tuesday - Snow Day

Wednesday 

1. ACT practice
2. letters to businesses (format guide in documents page)
3. resumes and cover letters
• Find a job that you could apply for at this moment in time.  Using one of the examples below (or one that you find), create a resume and then cover letter.  Please print out the job notice that you are applying for.  
• Resume examples:
• Example 1
• Example 2 
• Example 3
• Example 4 
• Cover letter example

Thursday

1. ACT practice
2. letters to businesses (format guide in documents page)
3. resumes and cover letters
• Find a job that you could apply for at this moment in time.  Using one of the examples below (or one that you find), create a resume and then cover letter.  Please print out the job notice that you are applying for.  
• Resume examples:
• Example 1
• Example 2 
• Example 3
• Example 4 
• Cover letter example

Friday - Data Day