Week of November 7th

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21st Cent. Class: Financial Literacy

Specials: Art

Misc:

*FIELD TRIP TO THE DENVER ZOO ON NOVEMBER 15th! Parent Chaperone forms and field trip forms are due this Friday!

*NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY - ELECTION DAY

*Design Thinking Challenge: Special Olympics

Purpose: Specifically foster students' developing sense of empathy, and overall to learn about design thinking. Students will learn to immerse themselves in learning from experts.

- The students interviewed two local Special Olympians (as pictured below) to continue empathizing to their needs and know what their struggles are and how they overcame them

- They then met with the parents of those two Special Olympians so they can continue their questions

- After our interviewing is complete, we will synthesize information to develop a point of view statement and generate potential ideas

*Research & Reasoning: The students have been finalizing their ideas for their genius hour projects - now they will start researching on the topic they've chosen

- We will go over various ways to research and the reasoning behind the methods this week

Ms. Morgan's Math:

*Math's Mate Term 2 Sheet 3 is due Friday

Chapter 5: Add & Subtract Decimals

*Adding Decimals - Monday

*No Math on Tuesday - Election Day

*Addition Properties - Wednesday

*Quiz on Thursday

*Subtracting Decimals - Friday

Reading:

*Unit 5 Vocabulary Test will be on November 16th

- Practice activities are in their Flocabulary site

Figurative Language - Creating their own! (If it's italicized, we've already gone over this piece of language specifically)

*Personification

*Similies

*Metaphors

*Hyperbole

*Onomatopeia

*Idioms

Novel Studies - Week 2 (Due Friday!)

*We will begin our new novel studies this week

- The students had a choice on which book to read, some may be easier than others, but all skills the students will be working on will be a challenging skill for them based on their STAR data

Writing:

*DLI Week 8 practice (Comma Review & Appositives) will be due on Tuesday - November 14th

- DLI Quick Write 8 will be due Wednesday, November 16th

BOY Writing Anchors

*Now that we've gone over multiple writing techniques, we will be pulling out the students Beginning of the Year Writing Anchors and continue editing and revising those papers this week

- Most students are done editing and revising so now their focus will be working on adding their personal writing goal into their final draft

- Once students have revised and edited their writing they will then meet with 3 writing buddies to edit and revise each other's work

Science:

*Students will continue their Living Systems Unit with Ms. Beck this week

TEST WILL BE FRIDAY!