November 15th

Creative Book Report


Today we will play Pictionary to learn our words for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz.  Words are listed in earlier posts.

Watch movie The Secret Life of Bees.

Bring your extra novel tomorrow for reading day.  Remember, your creative book report is due on Tuesday, November 27th

During Thanksgiving week, you will need to do a bit of reading if you're behind.  When we get back you need to be on page 199.

November 13

Here's the Youtube video I showed you last week, the one of Tommy Smith raising his fist on the medals podium

Today we will discuss . . . .

November 9, 2012

You will be making a creative book report for your extra book.  See the following handout for the descriptions of the 10 book report options.  I imagine that you could find examples on the internet of most of them, maybe even YouTube videos.
Book report due Tuesday, November 27th.  30 points.  +10 E.C. to best book report, 5 for 2nd

Creative Book Report
Examples of:
Diorama
Book in a Box
Book Timeline
Book Mobile
Collage for book      Collage 2
Movie Poster
Main Character
Powerpoint
Prezi
Xtranormal


Your homework for this weekend is to read to page 164 in The Secret Life of Bees.

November 7, 2012!

We'll leave our discussion of the election, but let me just say that I think it's amazing that the polls were so accurate.  Wow.  It also blew me away to see how early they were able to predict if a state would go to Obama or Romney.

The Secret Life of Bees--The Black Madonna

Vocabulary for Friday's quiz is found at this Google Doc
I'd like you to read two articles on the Black Madonna for tomorrow
     Black Madonna article 1
The Masthead and Our Lady of Chains article 2

Wikipedia article on Black Power




Assignment:
Write 1 paragraph describing a character from the novel.
Lily, T.Ray, Rosaleen, August, store clerk, Franklin (evil racist), June, May, etc.
1st sentence: state what he or she is like.
2nd sentence: quote a specific example from the book that supports your idea  citing the page number.
3rd sentence: explain what the example reveals about the character

1. Rosaleen loves Lily.
2. We can tell that she loves Lily because she makes her a birthday cake.  We read, "I made this here cake for you so you wouldn't feel alone today" (35).
3. Rosaleen would only go to this much trouble if she loved Lily.








4th sentence: optional sum up of the point you've made
you may give another example
Here's a hilarious Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about in here, but, all the same, it's pretty amusing, and don't we all need a bit of that in our lives?
Another Calvin and Hobbes What are you really learning? If you're just striving to learn facts and get by on your tests, are you really learning anything? Strive to learn more,  more than just "facts".

Thursday, November 1

Civil Rights Act of 1964, student presentation