ELA Distance Learning for Week of April 20
Keeping in Touch:
- You should have been invited to join your advisory teachers “Remind” group for weekly Bryant school updates. If you need your teacher’s “join code”, they are posted at the bottom of this page.
- YOU WILL NEED TO JOIN MY GOOGLE CLASSROOM FOR HANGOUTS-the class code for the new class will be available in your current classroom as an announcement.
- I will continue to post all weekly assignments and directions on the blog and in google classroom every Monday morning.
- Students may email me with questions, AFTER reading all directions for the given assignments.
- Students may request a phone call from me to discuss assignment related problems that cannot be cleared up via email. I will begin making calls home to students/parents this week.
Overview:
This week we will begin our unit on “Identity”.
Essential Questions:
- How do people reveal their identity (who they really are)?
- How do circumstances impact a person’s decisions/actions?
- How do socioeconomic (money, class, ethnicity) differences create barriers between people?
- In a culture where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us, how do we make decisions for ourselves?
- Who am I now? Who do I want to become?
REQUIRED WORK-
Article of the Week:
- This week’s article, a memoir, “I Escaped a Violent Gang” is posted on Google Classroom with directions to read and annotate. In addition, you will need to complete the 4 Square Graphic Organizer.
SSR:
- Read daily. I suggest 30 minutes a day. You can make daily annotations on a sticky note or notebook paper. See the bookmark posted on Google Classroom.
- At the end of the week (up until Sunday) write a SSR+ Weekly Reflection on Google-Classroom.
Note : If you do not have your novel at home, or you are expecting to finish it soon, you may use any online platform available to you for access to books. You can find a list of sources on earlier blog posts and Google Classroom.
IXL
- The following have been assigned to you (8th grade level):
Vocabulary: Q6 “Words with- ful”
Vocabulary: Q7 “Words with -less”
Vocabulary:S1 & 2 “Synonyms/Antonym
The goal is 80% or higher for mastery.
OPTIONAL WORK-
Movie:
“Freedom Writers” (available on NetFlix or Amazon Prime)- Find out more about the life of “Ana”, including her classes with Ms. Gruwell and how her students, including “Ana”, came to write memoirs of their experiences.
Bored…looking for something to do besides more Netflix and
video games, give one of these a try:
- Start (or continue) a journal about what life is like for you in this “quarantine” time period. It can help your mind, as well as perhaps serve as a primary source to others one day.
- A former Bryant student, Bailey, has put together a nightly “History Bedtime Story” where she shares a story of some history from Detroit on her company website. Don’t let the title scare you off. The stories are quirky, little known facts about Detroit and only about 5 minutes each. You can watch them anytime of the day, so give it a try.
On top of being an engineer at GM (I believe), she runs a tour company and club called Detroit History Tours and The Detroit History Club. I thought it would be interesting for you to hear from someone, who once sat in the same classrooms as you.
VIDEO HISTORY BEDTIME STORIES — Detroit History Tours tour detroit
- Try a podcast: Here are a few that sounded interesting to me. I’ve never listened to one, but I’m going to give it a try. I’m thinking it’s like listening to those radio shows from the old days… like “ The Hitchhiker” was a part of a weekly radio show. If you have any suggestions, email me.
- The Radio Adventures of Eleanor Amplified is fiction story about a reporter going out after “The Big Story”
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/483123262/eleanor-amplified
- Flyest Fable with Morgan Givens is a fiction story about Antoine, who is bullied, and a magical book takes him to another world. Reminds me of The Lion and the Witch and the Wardrobe and the cupboard.
https://www.morgangivens.com/flyest-fables
- The Allusionist explores the oddities of the English Language. Might be a fun way to understand our language.
https://www.theallusionist.org/
Advisory Teacher REMIND codes:
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· Grodzicki=@kgrodz
· Murphy= @f37428g
· Corriveau= @corriveaua
· Crawford=@cait2020
· Brown= @3hh3f6
· Beydoun=@fbeyd
· Lessel=@hah8g9g
· Farkas=@fkarkasa
· Elder=@3bkaea3
· Quine= @quinea
· Charara=@charara00