We are going to Johnson Creek Park tomorrow...please be ON-TIME, dress appropriately, and bring a lunch!

Due Tuesday:
- Johnson Creek Article and Questions

Due Thursday:
- Current Events for Group #2 (Devlin, Rowen, Alex H., Tiani, Maya, Haley, Isaac)
- Field Study assignment
- Geography #14 - Ocean Currents, Extra Credit: What is La Nina?
- Reading Assignment #3

NO SCHOOL FRIDAY!

Happy Weekend!

EVENTS:

• Multicultural/International Opportunity!

Mochitsuki 2011 – Year of the Rabbit - Japanese New Year Celebration

Sunday January 30, 2011
Scottish Rite Center
1512 SW Morrison Street

http://mochipdx.org/

• SATURDAY: Applebees Fundraiser from 8-10am at Lloyd Center Applebees. $10 all you can eat. Tickets available at the door!
  

NEXT WEEK:
Due Monday:
- Reading Assignment #2 (continue character and vocab charts; write 2 questions; summary for the 'chunk' read)
- Home Water Audit (blue worksheet)

Tuesday:Traveling to Johnson Creek Park for stream restoration including native planting and invasive removal. Dress appropriately!!!

Wednesday: 3rd grade Portland Musical at 9:30am for middle school!

Due Thursday:
- Current Events for Group #2 (Devlin, Rowen, Alex H., Tiani, Maya, Haley, Isaac)
- Field Study assignment
- Geography #14 - Ocean Currents, Extra Credit: What is La Nina?

Friday: No School!

Thursday Homework

Multicultural/International Opportunity!

Mochitsuki 2011 – Year of the Rabbit - Japanese New Year Celebration

Sunday January 30, 2011
Scottish Rite Center
1512 SW Morrison Street

http://mochipdx.org/

Due Friday:
- Geography #13 Desertification
- 7th Grade service resource page

Due Monday:
- Reading Assignment #2 (continue character and vocab charts; write 2 questions; summary for the 'chunk' read)
- Home Water Audit (blue worksheet)

State of the Union Tonight!

We had a wonderful trip the Nikkei Legacy Center and Japanese-American Memorial Plaza today. Thanks to Eileen and Dan for coming along! Students were thoughtful listeners and question askers about the Japanese Internment Camps. Click here to see a few photos from the day.

The State of the Union is 6pm this evening. Encourage your students to listen/watch!

Due Thursday:
- Field Study questions for trip to Nikkei Center
- 1st Reading Assignment for immigration novel (students received one of four novels to begin reading today, along with a green sheet outlining what is expected for each assignment)
- Current Events for Group #1 (Alex B., Sierra, Coyle, Arturo, Francis, Clay, Deva, Marina)

Due Friday:
- Geography #13 Deserts

Monday Homework

We are traveling to the Nikkei Legacy Center tomorrow. Please make sure students are on time and have a lunch!

Due Tuesday:
- Questions from articles about history of Japanese in Portland (yellow sheet of paper)

Due Thursday:
- 1st Reading Assignment for immigration novel (students received one of four novels to begin reading today, along with a green sheet outlining what is expected for each assignment)
- Current Events for Group #1 (Alex B., Sierra, Coyle, Arturo, Francis, Clay, Deva, Marina)

Due Friday:
- Geography #13 Deserts

Happy Weekend!

We will be taking the State Writing Test next week. We will be preparing for it in class. Students must complete the test at school, so it's important that students come to school on time with breakfast in their bellies!


Due Monday:
- Rough draft for Thesis analysis paper (can be typed, hand-written, or just the completed graphic organizer)

Due Tuesday:
- Questions from articles about history of Japanese in Portland (yellow sheet of paper)

Due Thursday:
- Current Events for Group #1 (Alex B., Sierra, Coyle, Arturo, Francis, Clay, Deva, Marina)

Due Friday:
- Geography #13 Deserts

Thursday Homework

We will be taking the State Writing Test next week. We will be preparing for it in class tomorrow and Friday. Students must complete the test at school, so it's important that students come to school on time with breakfast in their bellies!

Due Friday:
- Geography #12 - World Hunger
- Read pages 5-6 in yellow 19th Century Authors reader- poem by Emily Dickinson. Answer the questions that were handed on separate piece of paper.
Questions:

1. Pick one poem…What is happening in this poem in your own words?
2. Find one part that shows the reader the era that this piece was written in.
3. Find a rhyming pattern in one of the poems.

- Paragraph practice worksheet


Due Monday:
- Rough draft for Thesis analysis paper

Wednesday Homework

We will be taking the State Writing Test next week. We will be preparing for it in class tomorrow and Friday. Students must complete the test at school, so it's important that students come to school on time with breakfast in their bellies!

Due Thursday:
- EC journal questions for Oregon Historical Society
- Current Events for group 4: Dawson, Ian, Austin, Andrew, Barbara, Christina, Sienna, Ana

Due Friday:
- Geography #12 - World Hunger

Due Monday:
- Rough draft for Thesis analysis paper

Tuesday Homework

We had a great trip to the Oregon Historical Society. Not only did we learn a ton, but all the tour guides said we were a great class and loved the questions that we asked!
Thanks to Carrie, Ted, Kate, and Ann for coming with!

Due Thursday:
- EC journal questions for Oregon Historical Society
- Current Events for group 4: Dawson, Ian, Austin, Andrew, Barbara, Christina, Sienna, Ana

Due Friday:
- Geography #12 - World Hunger

Weekend Homework

Monday's Hunger Banquet Service Opportunities:
Participate in a Community Service Learning Project by:
a. Signing up for a volunteer spot on the service learning board
b. Participating in the Hunger Banquet ~ tickets are $5 each, families $10
All money goes to Oxfam and Oregon Food Bank

Tuesday's trip to Oregon Historical Society:
Some students still haven't turned in a permission slip. Please do so ASAP!
Students will have the opportunity to purchase lunch from the food court at Pioneer place -- good times!

Homework:
Due Tuesday:
- Read article on history of Oregon's Immigration and answer questions

Due Thursday:
- Current Events for group 4: Dawson, Ian, Austin, Andrew, Barbara, Christina, Sienna, Ana

Due Friday:
- Geography #12 - World Hunger

Thursday Homework

Monday's Hunger Banquet Service Opportunities:
Participate in a Community Service Learning Project by:
a. Signing up for a volunteer spot on the service learning board
b. Participating in the Hunger Banquet ~ tickets are $5 each, families $10
All money goes to Oxfam and Oregon Food Bank

Due Friday:
- Finish Reading notes for Chapter 26 in History Alive (if did not do so in class)
- Geography #11
- Service Reflection #2 (Only do if you have participated in 2 service activities this trimester so far)
Suggested Questions for Tree Recycling ~

1. What did you do for tree recycling? Who did you work with? What was fun about it? What was challenging? What did you raise money for? Who brought trees…people from school? Community members?
2. Why do people ‘recycle trees’? What is the value? What else would people do with their trees? Where do the trees go once they have been recycled?
3. How does the environment benefit from you participating a tree recycling event? How do you benefit from participating in this event?
4. Do you think people should have real trees for the holidays at all? Why or why not?

Other ideas for your reflection:

· Rewrite the lyrics to a song about your experience and its impact

· Write a poem about your experience and its impact

· Create a collage or art piece with key words/images that relate to you experience and its impact

Tuesday Homework

We shared our family immigration stories today by creating a piece for our class time-line about when our ancestors emigrated to America and then we participated in a mingling activity where we asked questions to each other and shared our histories. I think we were all surprised and impressed by the stories we bring to class and it sparked our interest to want to learn more about our families' histories.
A couple students brought up a few resources to help discover more about your family's history. One was http://www.ancestry.com/ and the other was a service provided by National Geographic -- https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/journey.html

Due Tonight: Hope for snow! Hopefully our snow dance led by Amy, Maya, and Julia at the end of the day will help our cause.

***Permission slips for field studies -- please turn in ASAP***
Plus $3.50 for admission to Oregon Historical Society on Jan. 18

Due Thursday:
- Current event for group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Elvis, Dylan, Amy)
- Final Reading Assignment for Sees Behind Trees:

1. Finish reading Sees Behind Trees (page 73-end)
2. Choose 3 of the following questions and answer them in complete sentences. Each answer must be at least 5 sentences long and provide evidence/examples.

1. When Sees Behind Trees is with Gray Fire in the Land of Water, do you think he can really see clearly, or was it just another level of his ability to sense his environment?
2. What do you think became of Gray Fire at the end of the story?
3. Why do you think the Land of Water is so important to Gray Fire?
4. What purpose does the introduction of Karna, Pitew, and Checha serve in the story?
5. Do you sometimes become too focused on one of your abilities and/or one of your disabilities? Explain.
6. The weroance says she knew that Gray Fire would not return from the Land of Water. Why do you think she let him go on his trip?

Due Friday:
- Geography #11
- Service Reflection #2 (Only do if you have participated in 2 service activities this trimester so far)
Suggested Questions for Tree Recycling ~

1. What did you do for tree recycling? Who did you work with? What was fun about it? What was challenging? What did you raise money for? Who brought trees…people from school? Community members?
2. Why do people ‘recycle trees’? What is the value? What else would people do with their trees? Where do the trees go once they have been recycled?
3. How does the environment benefit from you participating a tree recycling event? How do you benefit from participating in this event?
4. Do you think people should have real trees for the holidays at all? Why or why not?

Other ideas for your reflection:

· Rewrite the lyrics to a song about your experience and its impact

· Write a poem about your experience and its impact

· Create a collage or art piece with key words/images that relate to you experience and its impact

Monday Homework

***Permission slips for field studies -- please turn in ASAP***

Due Tuesday:
- Finalized Constitutional Convention role play speech
(many students finished this in class -- add to your speech, change, revise, etc.)

Due Thursday:
- Current event for group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Elvis, Dylan, Amy)

Due Friday:
- Geography #11

Weekend Homework

***Permission slips for field studies were handed out today -- please turn in ASAP***

Due Monday:
- Constitutional Convention Vocab
- Constitutional Convention role play speech
(read your assigned role and answer the questions on the other piece of paper 'in character')

Due Thursday:
- Current event for group 3 (Julia, Zoe, Miette, Janai, Elvis, Dylan, Amy)

Due Friday:
- Geography #11

***8th Graders***
- Make sure to sell 4+ Applebee's breakfast tickets (sell 6 or more to count as one of your 2 fundraisers)
- Turn in to Tara on Monday: 8th grade retreat permission form; 2 blue 1/2 sheets

Tuesday Homework

New homework for the week:
- Final draft of '11 things' poem - a list poem of events from winter break

HOMEWORK:
Due Tuesday (tomorrow): Rough draft of '11 things' poem - a list poem of events from winter break

Due Thursday: Current Events for Group 2 (Devlin, Rowen, Alex, Tiani, Maya, Haley, Isaac) These students had one due before winter break and we didn't have time to share them, so they can use that article if they so desire

Due Friday:
- Geography #10 - Australia
- Family interview/tree assignment
- Service Reflection (River Festival, Tree Recycling, other community service?) Posted by Sarah at 2:24 PM

Happy New Year!

We are officially back into the swing of things! This week we will begin our study of U.S. immigration, finish up reading Sees Behind Trees, and begin an analysis paper on the themes in Tangerine and The Outsiders.
I will be sending home permission slips for our Winter Field Studies this week. Our first trip is January 18 to the Oregon Historical Society.

HOMEWORK:
Due Tuesday (tomorrow): Rough draft of '11 things' poem - a list poem of events from winter break

Due Thursday: Current Events for Group 2 (Devlin, Rowen, Alex, Tiani, Maya, Haley, Isaac) These students had one due before winter break and we didn't have time to share them, so they can use that article if they so desire

Due Friday:
- Geography #10 - Australia
- Family interview/tree assignment
- Service Reflection (River Festival, Tree Recycling, other community service?)