ERWC/Miller

Announcements:

* Argumentative Essay Final Draft is now due Tuesday April 3rd.

* Next week, students will begin writing their scholarship essays.

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Paper Mache project 

ERWC/Miller

Announcement:

The end of year, ERWC class overnight backpack trip has been rescheduled to the weekend of Fri-Sat, April 27-28, it may change to two nights.  It is moving from Death Valley (the temps continue to rise there) to the back country of Big Pine.

In class today, Ms Miller conferencing with individual students in regard to the progress of their Argumentative Essays.  A reminder that the essay MUST be a minimum of 3 pages long and that does not include the works cited page.

 * The Argumentative Essay Final Draft is DUE TOMORROW, FRIDAY!

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

New unit: Paper Mache project.

ERWC/Miller

Argumentative Essay Final Draft due this Friday! 

 

 

Physical Science/ Roll

Today the students broke into groups and began a lab titled,"Time to Fall 2 Meters."

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Students completing their Wire Sculptures.

ERWC/Miller

Argumentative Essay Final Draft is DUE THIS FRIDAY!

The Rough Draft MUST be a minimum of 3 pages long, Ms Miller expects more than that. 

REMINDERS: If needed for referencing, ERWC Google Classroom has postings for "Works Cited" instructions on Feb 20th and a Works Cited resource "Citation Machine" on March 20th.

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Students continue working on their Wire Sculptures.

ERWC/Miller

Announcements:

*  Students who neglected to submit the assigned "Argumentative Essay" work this past Friday by midnight, will see it reflected by 20 points less on their grade for this assignment.

*  Students with late assignments MUST submit the Rough Draft by midnight TONIGHT to receive 30 points possible and it needs to be submitted in Google Classroom.

*  ASAP-The outline must be turned in!

*  The decision was made by majority student vote, to take the overnight ERWC class trip to Death Valley on Friday-Saturday, April 13-14.

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Students continue work on their Wire Sculptures. 

ERWC/Miller

A reminder: The Argumentative Essay -

Outline, Works Cited and Rough Draft are due today.  Although the rough draft is not required to be printed out, it is REQUIRED to be submitted by midnight TODAY, to Ms Miller.

 

 

Physical Science/ Roll 

In class today the students worked on graphing speed/distance and velocity,

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Wire Sculpture projects are due today.

ERWC/Miller

Annotated articles were due today and checked for completion, the assignment is worth 30 points.

Students are expected to have their thesis statement written and checked by Ms Miller before the end of class time, today.

Students received the Argumentative Essay outline in class today.  Outline, Rough Draft and Works Cited are due this Friday, Mar 23 by midnight.

  * ANNOUNCEMENT: If students find that the articles they have do NOT support their argument, they need to go back online to research more and find articles that DO support the argument.

 

U.S. History/ Le Francois

 In class today the students started a new packet entitled, "Eisenhower 1950 Notes." The first page was filled out in class and the students were supposed to write there questions and summary on the page for homework. 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

New Unit: Wire Sculptures due this Friday.

ENGLISH

ERWC/Miller

Check Google Classroom for 2 postings today:

1.  "Works Cited Resource"

2.  "Argumentative Essat Rough Draft"

Ms Miller has added a new expectation to the Argumentative Essay timeline:

The thesis statement is due Wednesday March 21st, by the end of the class period.  Thesis statement is worth 10 points.

Reminders:

  * Annotated articles will be checked for a grade tomorrow.  This assignment is worth 30 points. 

  * The Argumentative Essay Rough draft is due on Friday March 23rd by midnight.  The outline is worth 30 points and the Rough Draft, including Works Cited is worth 50 points.

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

This week, finishing up the Basketry project.

ERWC/Miller

Ms Miller recorded and issued 20 points to students for completed HW due today (printed research articles due at the onset of class today).

In class today, students reading through and annotating (highlighting, underlining, brackets and defining in your words) the articles submitted as HW.

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

ERWC/Miller

From the timeline:

Students expected to submit printed articles at the beginning of class on Monday, March 19th.  These articles must be approved by Ms. Miller before printing.  Copy and paste the TEXT only, and paste all four articles into ONE Google doc, then print.  Be sure that the articles chosen, DO support your side of the argument.  Students may share the Google doc with Ms Miller and she will print them.

Thesis statement will be due at the end of the period on Monday as well.

  * Ms Miller has posted this info in ERWC Google Classroom.

 

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Basketry Project due this week.

ERWC/Miller

Students received a hard copy timeline with directions for the Argumentative Essay assignment.  Late work will NOT be accepted!  

Students have been asked to NOT lose the timeline, it needs to be turned in along with the outline, rough draft, and rubric for points.

 * In class time today designated specifically to do research.

 

 

Econ-Leonard

Food Inc quiz

no HW 

 

 

Macronutrients/Vitamin worksheet due at the end of class

no HW

 

Art/O'Leary

Basketry project due this week.

ERWC/Miller

Today, students are picking a controversial topic to research for the upcoming writing task.  Decision for chosen topic is expected to be made by the end of today's class period.  

What are you trying to PROVE about your topic (thesis statement)?

Students encouraged go to the following websites for researching topics.  

 *  Debate.org

 *  ProCon.org

 

Eng9cp-Thomas

HW: Act 3 Translation Quotations

 

Econ

finished Food Inc documentary and questions sheet

HW: Federal/National Debt worksheet

use the listed website to answer the 18 questions

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Basketry project due this week

ERWC/Miller

In class, reviewing the Op - Ed article, "Jim Crow Policing," what is the thesis?  *  * New Writing task: Students will be writing about a controversial topic.  

In class, students picked 5 topics that they are interested in, what they want to learn more about.  They MUST research the 5 topics, at least 2-3 sentences per each topic chosen.  This assignment is due tomorrow.  

After researching each topic, students will decide on one to write about. 

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

ERWC/Miller

In class, review and note taking the Op - Ed "Jim Crow Policing."  Students given in class time to complete this assignment.  If not finished in class, it's tonight's HW.

HW: This article MUST be read and annotated for tomorrow (underlined, highlighted, brackets, and defined in your own words).

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Basketry project due today.

ERWC/Miller

In class, continued reading and note tthe Op - Ed: "Jim Crow Policing."

No HW

 

 

 

 

Art/O'Leary

Basketry project due on Monday March 12, 2018