Tight-rope Walker | Group/Solo project: Medieval Japan. Choose either the Golden Age or Samurai. Create a google slide show that teaches about this time period. You must use at least 3 sources for your slides. | Group/Solo project: The Americas – Inca, Aztec and Maya research project. Create a presentation to teach about one of these three civilizations and develop a review game to follow. You must use at least 3 sources. | European Renaissance research project: Select a topic to research. You may demonstrate understanding with a research paper, Google Slides presentation, or iMovie. You must use at least 3 sources. |
Yoga | Develop a virtual field trip that kids would like to take after the quarantine | Write a short historical fiction story | Historical period or figure Music/Dance Video |
Stretch | Create a primary document about this time (a journal entry, a video, a poster, a letter, etc.) | Family member interview | Video or Written Book Talk on a fiction novel |
10th option is a self-created project of your choice. (Must be approved by me!)
You will complete one project every three weeks for a total of three projects by the end of the year.
1st Project Due April 30th
2nd Project Due May 21st
3rd Project Due June 9th
All grades will be Pass/Fail (60% and above is a Pass)
70% Completed Projects
30% Participation (SMART Goals, Check-ins, Reflections)
Pennies for Persuasion!
7th graders at Cal Young have been learning about rhetorical devices and the power of persuasion as well as empathy. I am combining these two ideas for our current unit in language arts.
Students will be researching charities of their choice and writing a persuasive essay and creating a video nominating a specific charity to receive money.
Each class will collect change throughout the unit. My class raising the most money will get to vote on where we donate the money in the end.
Midterm is January 31st! Please check Student Vue and complete any missing assignments 🙂
Muslim Contributions Project:
Research and Bibliography: 12/6-12/10
Type Speech: 12/11-12/12
Work on Group Presentation: 12/13-12/18
Present to Class: 12/19-12/20
Any missing work from 1st Trimester is due by Monday 11/25!
Career Exploration Field Trip – Please return permission slips ASAP 🙂
When: Thursday, October 24th 10:00-1:00
Where: Bob Keefer Center in Springfield
Why: Explore career choices
Who: All 7th grade students and 8th grade AVID
All missing/late work for the first half of the trimester is due by Monday, October 7, 2019!
Open House September 26th!
I’m so excited to be teaching at Cal Young this year and look forward to meeting families at Open House on Thursday, September 26th. Watermelon Social is at 5:00 and Open House is 6:00.