Week of Feb. 3-7
Monday: Assignment #48: All classes analyzed a data table and wrote a CER that makes a claim to predict future hurricane hazards.
Claim: The states likely to experience the most damage from a hurricane in the future are ______, _____, and _______.
Evidence: The evidence that supports my claim from the data table:
Reasoning: (Why this evidence supports my claim):
Tuesday-Friday: Assignment #49 Soft Skills Survey and Assignment #50 Florida CCR were given to each class on different days due to interruptions from WIDA testing and the 8th grade orchestra concert. By the end of the day Friday, all classes ended at the same spot.
Assignment #50: Students read the article “How Florida Cities Survive Floods” (Must be logged in to Dearborn Schools e-mail to view). For Close and Critical Reading Box 1 Summary, students wrote a paragraph in the form of an “acrostic.” In an acrostic, the first letter of each line spells out a word.
For when it rains a
Lot, we can build levees
Or lift buildings up off
Of the ground. Then, this helps keep
Damage from happening to infrastructure.
Such damage would otherwise cost a lot.
(Reads like a paragraph, but along the side notice how each line makes it spell “FLOODS”)
Students were assigned the word “ENGINEERING,” so their paragraph should spell engineering along the side like this:
E
N
G
I
N
E
E
R
I
N
G
Each line needs to start with the letter on that line. If the student’s line does not fit, it can not go on to the next line unless that word starts with the next letter in line. They need to shorten the wording or make the new letter work with what they wrote. Lines can be as short as one word, or as long as they have space to keep writing. I encouraged students who wanted longer lines to turn their paper sideways.
Each class had the opportunity to participate in a competition. The “best” acrostic summaries voted on by other teachers have been posted in my classroom as they had to be submitted at the end of the hour to qualify. Students who did not participate in the contest could take theirs home for homework. 1st and 2nd hour have until Monday to finish, but 3rd-6th hours have had two class days to work so theirs were due at the end of the hour today.