In honor of the Martin Luther King holiday

Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin

We have finished reading Always to Remember:  The Vision of Maya Ying Lin now we are going to learn a little about the Vietnam Memorial and Maya Ying Lin. 

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Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin

You have finished reading Always to Remember:  The Vision of Maya Ying Lin. View this Mentor Mob below to learn even more  about the Vietnam Memorial and Maya Ying Lin.   As you look at the images of the Memorial, listen to the videos complete the third column, what you have learned in your KWL chart in your Reading Notebook.

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Grade 1 Tech: Learning about Martin Luther King Jr.

On Monday we remember Martin Luther King Jr, today we are going to watch a Brain Pop Junior biography to learn more about this important American hero. Click here to watch the Brain Pop video.  Log in using barnard1/brainpop

In Plain English US History

January is for grammar!

It's time to begin the new year and what better way than to review essential grammar skills!  Quick reviews, Grammar Flip, songs, Kahoot and teaching the class will all combine to help you turn January into the best grammar month of the year!



First--join our Flocabulary class

 

 

Grades 7 & 8-Class Code: PF5SBR
Grade 6-Class Code: PFTKDK 

Grammar Skills- 

Homonyms- link to table to put your Kahoot Questions

Watch Flocabulary's short video on Homonyms 
Complete activity and quiz on Flocabulary (go to your class)
Example of Homonyms
Allan Cooper's Homonym List

An Ode to the Spelling Chequer

Prays the Lord for the spelling chequer
That came with our pea sea!
Mecca mistake and it puts you rite
Its so easy to ewes, you sea.

I never used to no, was it e before eye?
(Four sometimes its eye before e.)
But now I've discovered the quay to success
It's as simple as won, too, free!

Sew watt if you lose a letter or two,
The whirled won't come two an end!
Can't you sea? It's as plane as the knows on yore face
S. Chequer's my very best friend

I've always had trubble with letters that double
"Is it one or to S's?" I'd wine
But now, as I've tolled you this chequer is grate
And its hi thyme you got won, like mine.

—Janet E. Byford

Monsters are Due on Maple Street

7th graders--
Today we begin a new play, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.  This is a screenplay, a play that was written for television.  It was written as an episode for a show called The Twilight Zone.  Ask your parents about it--many of them will remember watching it.  We will watch a clip today of the opening scene of every Twilight Zone show.  Rod Sterling, the writer and narrator of The Twilight Zone began every show the same way.  His opening introductions are a good example of a lead that really pulls you in and makes you want to know more!
Click here to watch the epilogue
Click here to watch the entire episode
watch Rod Sterling interview with Mike Wallace

Rod Sterling and The Twilight Zone

We are going to read a screen play that was part of the long running Twilight Zone series created by Rod Sterling.  Choose one of the websites below to learn more about Sterling.  Using the guidelines from the Summarizing worksheet you just completed, write a half to full page summary on Sterling.  Be sure to put the information in your own words--no plagiarizing! You may use direct quotes if there is something you really want to use verbatim.  Be sure to credit the website you used in your summary.  You may read all three articles if you wish.  DO NOT USE ANY OTHER SOURCES! This is homework for Thursday, January 4th if you do not finish in class.
Twilight Zone Day: The Strange World of Rod Sterling
Rod Sterling-Wikipedia entry
15 Fascinating Facts About Rod Sterling

Watch Flowers for Algernon

Begin watching at 37:47.