Week 4: April 27 - May 1

Learning Goal:

• I can analyze the key elements of fiction literature: drama.
• I can infer and interpret direct and indirect characterization from a text.
• I can analyze and decipher between internal and external conflict.
• I can recognize and identify verb tenses in context.
• I can quote evidence to support ideas.

Estimated Time for The Week: 150 minutes or 2.5 hours

Learn & Practice:

1. Be curious and learn about the history of dramas.
   • Click HERE.
2. Read the drama, “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose
   • Use this AUDIO LINK to listen while you follow along.
3. Analyze the drama's development through the Plot Pyramid.
   • Click HERE.
4. Dig deeper into the understanding of one or two characters from the drama.
   • Find out more about the direct and indirect characterization of the characters you chose, click HERE.
5. Determine the Internal and External conflicts of the drama.
   • Click HERE.
6. Expand your understanding of Verb Tenses.
   • Identify past, present, and future tenses. Click HERE!

Extension:

1. Create your own short drama from a book you have read or a short story you have written. Use the video below to help you out.
   • Click HERE

PreAP Challenge:

• Continue reading “The Bear” by William Faulkner.
• Each week (Use this PDF), read the selection of pages given and complete a dialectical journal (use the Example and directions given on the PDF to help)

Learning Goals: Synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

Estimated Time for the Week: 1.5 Hours

1. Engage:
   • Watch these videos! What are Natural Resources?, Natural vs Manmade , Natural Resource Alternatives
   • Read… Rubber and all its uses
2. Explore:
   • Spend 90 second writing down as many questions as you can think of about synthetic materials in #1. (Actually set a timer!)
   • Spend 15-20 minutes investigating, observing, and researching, as much as your can about the phenomena from #1.
3. Learn & Explain: Use the content below to learn some key information. Take notes as you learn.
   • Slides: Natural vs. Synthetic Materials
   • Essential Vocabulary: Quizlet
   • Play: BrainPOP- Sortify: Natural Resources
   • Practice: Quizizz: Natural vs Synthetic Materials

4. Elaborate: Use the resources below to go deeper and apply the learning to new levels.

• Healthy Oceans: Preventing Plastic Pollution
• Bioplastic

5. Do & Connect:

• Spend some time looking around your house and make a list of some single use plastics around your house. (Did you know it takes about 1,000 years for plastic to decompose?)
• Come up with a list of solutions to reduce this based on things you learned from this lesson.

*Problems accessing any of these sites? Questions? Anything you want to discuss?

Please contact your science teacher by email.

Learning Goal:

I can determine the advantages and disadvantages during the Civil War for the North and South

Estimated Time for the Week:

2 hours, 120 minutes total

Learn & Practice:

For the Google Slides to click-through the below directions, click here!

Advantages and Disadvantages

1. Watch an overview of the Strategy in the Civil War from Khan Academy. As you watch, identify the advantages of the North and South by dragging and dropping the “N” on Northern advantages and “S” on Southern advantages. Check your answers
2. Review the chart for advantages and disadvantages in the Civil War. Based on the chart, how do you predict the future of the war in the South?

Ulysses S. Grant

1. Watch a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. While you watch, identify the statements as either true or false. Check your answers.
2. Research Ulysses S Grant. What are 5 things you learned? Write 1 paragraph about new information you found.
   • Biography - Grant
   • History- Grant
3. After reviewing the previous information, practice with Quizizz 1 or Quizizz 2 to see what you know!

Robert E. Lee

1. Watch the biography of Robert E. Lee from the History Channel. As you watch, take notes summarizing the 5 W’s.
2. How do you think the war would have gone differently if Lee accepted Lincoln’s request to command for the union at the beginning of the Civil War? Explain.
3. Research Robert E. Lee on the following websites. What are 5 things you learned? Write 1 paragraph about new information you found.
   • History
   • PBS- Robert E. Lee
   • PBS Timeline
4. After reviewing the previous information, practice with Quizizz 1 or Quizizz 2 to see what you know!

Review

1. Research and review causes of the Civil War then put 5 bulletin points from the website below. You can also read all the resources on this website and take a small assessment to test your content knowledge over this time period.

Review Generals in the Civil War. Check your knowledge here!

*Note: Click here for the Gateway to Tech course (different from the STEM learning below).

Learning Goal: Explore the career of an Aerospace Engineer.

I can explain what an Aerospace Engineer does.

Estimated Time for The Week:

2 hours (120 minutes) total

Materials:

• Device with Internet access
• Paper (optional)
• Pencil/Pen (optional)
• Materials from around the house for your design

Learn & Practice:

1. Make sure you're logged into Discovery Education with your school account.
2. Click here for your DE Studio Board: Aerospace Engineer on the career of an Aerospace Engineer that will guide you through the below directions.
3. The Studio Board will guide you as you learn about the requirements to become a Aerospace Engineer and their salary.
4. Background: An interest in aerospace engineering can lead individuals toward an exciting career with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA engineers work together to create safe space crafts that transport people and supplies into orbit, as well as to other planets. Working outside of Earth’s atmosphere poses many unique challenges, and engineers must use strong analytical skills as well as creativity to determine the most effective design for each space craft.
5. Challenge: Your task is to take on the role of an aerospace engineer with NASA charged with developing a new space craft. One of NASA’s current projects involves the exploration of Mars. Not only must engineers design a shuttle that can get to the Red Planet, but they must design a landing craft capable of touching down safely, too! You are tasked to design a landing craft that is capable of landing upright on the surface of Mars!
6. Create:
   • Design a container for an egg that can withstand being dropped from a height of at least ten feet (and higher).
   • The container must land upright and the egg must not be broken in the landing.
   • Test your landing craft! If the egg breaks, review your design, revise as needed, and test again!
7. Reflect:
   • What design is the most successful in protecting the cargo?
   • Why was it successful?
8. Share:
   • Share your landing craft and your design decisions with your family or friends (or any teacher you want). Have a discussion about what the designs all have in common, then analyze how the design and materials changed the results of the landing tests.
   • Create a Paper Slide video about your landing craft to be able to share your learnings with other aerospace engineers.
9. Extend your learning:
   • Create an infographic about your landing craft and its relation to the Newton’s Laws.
   • Complete this NASA challenge for free-flying balloon space crafts: http://bit.ly/2l8L9pE
   • Watch this video on aerospace engineers: http://bit.ly/2ld4pSk
   • Read about an American aerospace engineer and former NASA Astronaut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Higginbotham