ELA Suggested Work for Week of March 30
Article of the Week:
- This week’s article “ College Career and School Options” is posted on Google-Classroom with directions to read using SQ3R, annotate, take the quiz and complete the writing.
Research Project: Planning Ahead for College or Trade School
- This project will give you a chance to see what some of your options are after high-school. Looking at this now will help you decide what courses would be best for you in high-school and allow you to see what is out there. Take a few weeks to explore and create before submitting. Tailor it/ Customize it to fit you. Find what is right for you, now.
SSR+
- Read daily. We suggest 30 minutes a day. You can make daily annotations on a sticky note or notebook paper. See the bookmark posted on Google Classroom under SSR+ weekly Reflections
- At the end of the week (Friday -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 my blog and Google Classroom.
IXL
This week since you are researching, nothing new is posted. You may use it to work on any area you feel you need. It does give you recommendations based on what you have done. As a group you have answered over 2,000 questions!
Kahoot Challenge:
Congratulations to last week’s Top 5 Flowers for Algernon Winners: Andrew, Savannah, Brody, Nadia E and Aya Berro!
This week’s challenge is on the Parts of Speech. See Google Classroom for details.
Keeping in Touch:
Thought we’d try something new, this week, to keep in touch. On Google-Classroom you will find a few questions you can respond to. You can also reply appropriately to each other. See Google-classroom for details.
Other Suggested Activities:
- Start or continue a journal about what life is like for you in this time period. It can help your mind as well as perhaps serve as a primary source to others one-day. Wouldn’t that be cool to know a future generation might read yours just like you have read past generations.
- A former student, Bailey, who attended Bryant just like you, has put together a nightly “ History Bedtime Story” where she shares a story of some history from Detroit on Facebook. Don’t let the title scare you off. The stories are quirky, little known facts about Detroit. 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 cool for you to hear from someone,who once sat in the same classrooms as you. Not sure if Facebook is needed to access. I’m hoping it works. Let me know. If you enjoy it, look for her other nightly stories.
- Try a podcast: Here are a few that sounded cool 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/
- Join Dearborn High’s Spirit Week Challenge. See Attachment in your email.
