Tuesday Homework

Read-A-Thon Ends Tomorrow!
Reminder: NO SCHOOL on Friday -- I will be doing report cards!

Due Wednesday:
- All Service Learning Reflections (community, school, grade-based, garden)
- Final draft of your river's Settlers and Growth/Industry pages (that's 2 separate pages)

Due Thursday:
- Geography #8 (Africa)
- Current Events for Group 4 (Ian, Austin, Andrew, Barbara, Christina, Sienna, Ana, Dawson)
- ALL LATE WORK MUST BE TURNED IN!

Monday Homework

We are heading to Balch Creek tomorrow! Please make sure you have a lunch, water bottle, and warm layers!
Read-A-Thon Ends Wednesday
Reminder: NO SCHOOL on Friday -- I will be doing report cards!

Due Wednesday:
- All Service Learning Reflections (community, school, grade-based, garden)
- Final draft of your river's Settlers and Growth/Industry pages (that's 2 separate pages)

Due Thursday:
- Geography #8 (Africa)
- Current Events for Group 4 (Ian, Austin, Andrew, Barbara, Christina, Sienna, Ana, Dawson)
- ALL LATE WORK MUST BE TURNED IN!

Thanksgiving Break!

I just posted some new photos. Click here to see photos of us working on our river mural and cooking up some delicious fall food...nothing like seeing kids up on ladders and with knives in their hands!
Click here to see photos of our awesome trip to the Cooley Gallery at Reed College. Who knew one could make such beautiful pieces of art with CDs, a pencil, and a straight-edge!?

Students received the assignment for the 3D river project. It is due on December 9th, ideas are due Nov. 29th. I will send an email with the project description attached.

Service Opportunity! Garden Day at school on Monday from 1-3pm!

Research for Settlers and Growth/Industry for the River Story is due Monday Nov. 29th. The writing the students are doing for these river stories are amazing! They are staying true to the perspectives they chose and crafting beautiful stories about the history of their river.

All Service Reflections are due Dec. 1st. We are doing the class-based reflection in class.

Thursday Homework

Due Thursday:
- Current Event for Group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Dylan, Elvis, Dawson, Amy
- Finish reading Tangerine, complete 3 dialogue journal entries
- River research for Settlers and Growth of Cities and Industry
- Reed Gallery Field Study Assignment

Due Friday:
- Geography Sheet #7
- Rough draft of Native American River Story

We are planning on starting to watch the Outsiders on Thursday.

In order to watch The Outsiders on Thursday,

You need to have the following turned in!

• Reading Project
• Tangerine Assignments
• Total of 9 dialogue journal entries
• Character Notes
• Water Cycle Narrative
• At least 2 Service Reflections
• River Story:
• Final Draft of Introduction
• Final Draft of Geology
• Final Draft of Natural History (Plants and Animals)
• One illustrated page

Tuesday Homework

Dress up like a character from your favorite book tomorrow to help kick off the Read-A-Thon!

Due Thursday:
- Current Event for Group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Dylan, Elvis, Dawson, Amy
- Finish reading Tangerine, complete 3 dialogue journal entries
- River research for Settlers and Growth of Cities and Industry
- Reed Gallery Field Study Assignment

Due Friday:
- Geography Sheet #7

We are planning on starting to watch the Outsiders on Thursday.

In order to watch The Outsiders on Thursday,

You need to have the following turned in!

• Reading Project
• Tangerine Assignments
• Total of 9 dialogue journal entries
• Character Notes
• Water Cycle Narrative
• At least 2 Service Reflections
• River Story:
• Final Draft of Introduction
• Final Draft of Geology
• Final Draft of Natural History (Plants and Animals)
• Rough Draft of Native Americans
• One illustrated page

The Outsiders is rate PG. If you would not like to have your student watch this movie, please let me know!

Monday Homework

We are traveling to Reed to visit the Cooley Gallery tomorrow. It looks like a very interesting exhibit on 3 women abstract artists. Here's the link if you are interested in checking it out:
http://www.reed.edu/gallery/
Students need to bring a lunch; we will be eating in the cafeteria on Reed campus, so they also have the option of bringing some money to purchase their lunch.

Due Tuesday:
- Draft of River Natural History (the plants and animals)
- Final Draft of River Geology
- One illustrated page for River Story book (this can be some illustrations on your introduction page or a border; or a stand-alone illustration about one topic (geology, natural history, Native Americans, etc.)

Due Thursday:
- Current Event for Group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Dylan, Elvis, Dawson, Amy
- Finish reading Tangerine, complete 3 dialogue journal entries

Due Friday:
- Geography Sheet #7

Weekend Homework

Due Monday:
- Final draft of Introduction for River Story
- 1st draft of Geology page for River Story
(We looked at examples of both of these today in class)
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ASSIGNMENT AND GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

- Tangerine up to Dec. 3 (pages 237-270) just read

Due Thursday:
- Current Events for group 3

Due Friday:
Geography Sheet #7

No School Thursday!

No School Thursday!

Due Friday:
- Geography Sheet #6 on Asian countries
- Current Events for Group 2
- Read up to Nov. 27 in Tangerine (page 237) keep notes about a main character (preferably the one you started a poster on in class a few weeks ago)
- Rough draft of introduction for the River Story (many students turned it in today)

Tuesday Homework

We made some delicious tortillas, pinto beans, and butternut squash mash today! We tested the theory about whether or not cooking dry beans with salt keeps them tougher and had a short chemistry lesson on ions and charges. Our results?...cook them however you want. Salt or no salt they'll be delicious! Thanks to Noelle for all her help with this project!

Due Wednesday:
- research for your river on natural history (native plants and animals of the area) and Native American tribes

No School Thursday!

Due Friday:
- Geography Sheet #6 on Asian countries
- Current Events for Group 2
- Read up to Nov. 27 in Tangerine (page 237) keep notes about a main character (preferably the one you started a poster on in class a few weeks ago)

Long Weekend

Click here to see pictures from our field trip to Tryon Creek State Park. A big thanks to Nicole, Noelle, Dan, Amanda, and Brenda for driving us all out there and spending the day with us!
We had a long hike up to the Englewood trail to set up inquiry plots for monitoring garlic mustard and ivy. Each student group developed a question based around the invasive properties of both these plants that they will be attempting to answer throughout the year.

Due Monday:
- Geology research for students' rivers: these should be the main geologic events/formations that shape their river
- Read up to Part II in Tangerine (page 199)

Due Tuesday:
- Service Learning reflection

Due Friday:
- Geography Sheet #6 - countries of Asia
- 2nd Current Event for Devlin, Rowen, Alex H., Tiani, Maya, Haley, Isaac

Photos!

Click here to see photos from the 7th grade trip to Bull Run Reservoir

Click here to see photos from our trip to Johnson Creek Park

Wednesday Homework

Due Thursday:
- Tryon Field Study assignment in EC Journal
- Geography Sheet #5
- Unicef Money
- 2nd Current Even for Group 1
- Just read up to 'Nov. 2' in Tangerine

Due Monday:
- Research for GEOLOGY of students' rivers. We started research today, we will continue with finding research tomorrow in relation to the geology/formation of the river and the river bed.

Due Tuesday:
- Service Learning Reflection

Tuesday Homework

• Essential Questions and assignment for Tryon Creek Field Study, Due: Thursday
• Geography #5--due Thursday (because no school on Friday).

• Trick-or-Treat for Unicef: students can still collect money for UNICEF and bring it in by Thursday. They can use this as a community-based project.

• Due Thursday: Read up to Nov. 2 in Tangerine (pages 133-168), just read!

Monday Homework

Tomorrow we are going to Tryon Creek State Park! The weather is predicted to be cool, but clear. Dress for the worst and hope for the best!

Due Tuesday

• River STory: students should complete a fact page with border and a page with a beautiful map with the course of the river also described in beautiful language. These pages will be compiled into a book (ala Lynn Cherry's A River Ran Wild) about an American river. Each student has already chosen their river and have begun researching it. This week we will focus on the geology of the river.

Students are coming to me saying they aren't finding a lot of information about certain rivers. This is the perfect time to choose a MAJOR River in the US and not struggle through the research process. If basic facts are find difficult to find-- discovering the geology of the river will seem impossible.

• Geography #5--due Thursday (because no school on Friday).

• Trick-or-Treat for Unicef: students can still collect money for UNICEF and bring it in by Thursday. They can use this as a community-based project.

• Due Thursday: Read up to Nov. 2 in Tangerine (pages 133-168), just read!