Calendar Announcements
5/9, Campus Preview Day today!
5/9 closed (student only) performing arts show.
5/12, Branches Performing Arts “La Fiesta” end of year show, make a donation HERE.
5/19, Branches Graduation (doors open at 5:45pm) & Open House (appx. 7pm)
Tuesday 5/23 @11am, Kinder and 8th grade promotion in the sanctuary, followed by our end of the year potluck. Classes will be dismissed at 11am.
5/23 @12pm, End of the Year Fiesta Potluck (Tuesday sign-up HERE)
5/23 NO AFTERNOON ENRICHMENT CLASSES. All students must be picked at 12pm or have a parent with them during the potluck.
Field Trips:
Field trips sign-ups and/or payment, click HERE.
5/19 & 5/26, La County Fair Kids Sold Out.
***EXTENSION*** 6/9-6/11 Summer San Diego KOA Family Camping, make your reservation HERE by 5/25/23.
Music To My Ears! directions and grading rubric
create instrument
no electrical current allowed
demonstrate how to change loudness and a minimum of 4 pitches/notes
Continue working on your Element Superhero/Villain character
Continue to brainstorm how your instrument will work.
Collect anymore items needed for your instrument creation. These will be presented to the class, evaluated and put out to display for Open House.
Check Here on Mondays for announcements for Tuesday
Space Race review, Whodunnit?
Read lessons 131-135. complete mapping, timeline, and read presidential biographies. Thinking biblically needs to be included for check+ in gradebook.
Complete Unit 27 Lesson Reviews
If you didn't bring your map book and timeline already, please bring it next week for final completion check.
Check Here on Mondays for announcements for Tuesday
Continue and Finish Final Essay of the Year-Gothic Architecture
Read intro to Lesson 25 Gothic Architecture:
-2 KWO - Pointed Arches & Rose Windows
-This will be a 6 paragraph essay (due May 16)
Discuss Unit 8: Formal Essay Models
Find and use helpful resources
Take limited notes from multiple resources
Find outside resources from the article in IEW book
Discuss Note Taking pages (print as many as you need)
How to keep organized notes for each resource
organize page by topic (2 this week)
Keep a working bibliography
Lesson 26-Conclusion
Restate topics, Most Significant, Why, Clincher
Lesson 26-Introduction
Hook, Background info, Mention of 4 topics.
Review Checklist/procedure
If Checklist is not included, it will be returned ungraded!
Include Modified MLA Format, guidelines on p.224.
Complete 2 KWO outlines for Lesson 25
Complete 2 paragraphs for this assignment and turn in with completed Lesson 25 checklists (include illustrations for extra credit)
(for following week) Final Checklist Lesson 26, turn in due date May 16.
Read chapter through ch 13 of The Last Battle
Purdue University Online Writing Lab: this link will review the basics of how to cite a source in your writing. There is also a quick video to the right of the page that will begin to play, press "stay" or it will switch to a different video.
This is also where you can copy and paste a webite address and it will help you form MLA citing format for that site.