ELA Enrichment Learning for Week of April 13
Welcome back from break! With the physical closure of schools for the year, we will be moving into a distance learning plan. The plan is in the process of being approved and will be shared with you by the end of the month..The short of it is, your learning will continue, just not in our physical building. We will continue to support you and guide you through this process.
Currently, in order to keep parents informed tomorrow MI- Star will reflect your participation in these Enrichment Learning opportunities. There were 8 assignments since we switched to enrichment learning. Doing all 8 earned 100%, 7 earned 90%, 6 earned 85%, 5 earned 80%, 4 earned 75%, 3 earned 70%, 2 earned 65%, 1 earned 60%. The assignments are ungraded and do not affect your grade, they just show your participation. Google Classroom will show you all the assignments,comments and actual scores.
We urge you to stay committed and motivated to learn and become well-educated. Knowledge is power. Together we can do this, while staying home, saving lives, and being a difference maker.If there is anything we do to support you let us know. We’ve got this Bryant-Eagles!
Article of the Week:
- This week’s article “ Creating an At Home School Schedule” is posted on Google-Classroom with directions to read using SQ3R, annotate, take the quiz and complete the writing.
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 from 8th grade D1:Sentence Types, O4: Commonly Confused Words, Q 4 &5 Words with… and Z1 have been assigned. The goal is 80% or higher for mastery.
Kahoot Challenge:
Congratulations to last week’s Top 5 Parts of Speech Winners: Nassim Mashour, Ashley K, Hassan Sareini,Brody and Mariam!
This week’s challenge is on the Parts of Plot. 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. See Google-classroom for details.
Bored… Give these a try:
- 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.
