MAY 23, 2008

7th and 8th Grade

Bell Work

7th & 8th Grade: 

Using the blog you created in Mr. Ahn's Class:

Describe, in a paragraph, how you can be creative in order to save money.

 Assignment

As a group:

You are married with four children.  Your five year old has a birthday and you have an anniversary.  The State Fair is in town and your family really wants to go.  You have only sixty dollars to spare after you pay your bills.  What do you do? How can you be creative? How can you use community to help you?  

HOMEWORK 

See the handout I gave you on Tuesday

ELD

Beginning the MY LIFE project.  You will create a blog and under permisions, you will make add socialvoice@gmail.com to your list of authors.  You will then set it so that only authors can read your blog.  This will serve as a journal that only you and the teacher can read.  

BONUS

Book Project - Book Outline

Portfolio Project

Visual Arts and Photography

Voices of the Border 

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES

• Poetry
• Paragraph: Write a paragraph describing the connection between what you are learning in this class and the real-world.  For example, how does the concept of civil war relate to your life?  What is a modern day example of it?  How does budgeting relate to your life?
• Picture:  Draw a picture of anything relating to social studies. It needs to demonstrate a high level of effort on your part.
• Movie Write-Up:  Watch a movie that relates to social studies.  If it is rated-R, you need your parent’s permission. 
• News Write-up: Watch the news and write a summary of what it was about.
• Story: Write a story involving characters from some time period we have learned about. 
• Personal Narrative - tell a story about something in your life that changed how you view life
• Collage: Find pictures from magazines and create a collage about any of the concepts we have learned in class.
• Survey: Create a list of questions that have more than one option for an answer.  These must relate to social studies.  Ask at least ten people to fill out the survey.  (Just don’t go to the mall, because people will think that you’re supposed to pay them afterward)
• Design a flag to represent some group of people who have no voice and no real power.
• Interview someone who connects to social studies - perhaps an immigrant, a soldier, someone who remembers Vietnam or the Civil Rights movement, etc.