wednesday, march 21, 2018
Title: achieve3000
Homework: Finish incomplete classwork
Do Now:
Survey
LESSON STEPS:
1. Do Now
2. IXL: Visual Elements- complete 30 questions for each topic and record your score
7th Grade:
Visual elements
T.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects ________
T.2 Read graphic organizers ________
8th Grade:
Visual elements
T.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects ___________
T.2 Read graphic organizers _____________
3. Missing Assignments
Do Now:
Survey
LESSON STEPS:
1. Do Now
2. IXL: Visual Elements- complete 30 questions for each topic and record your score
7th Grade:
Visual elements
T.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects ________
T.2 Read graphic organizers ________
8th Grade:
Visual elements
T.1 Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects ___________
T.2 Read graphic organizers _____________
3. Missing Assignments
- Journalism assignments first
- all other classes
wednesday, march 14, 2018
title: March for our lives
Homework: Finish incomplete classwork
Do Now:
Take the first 5 minutes to calmly reflect on today's walkout.
What are your thoughts? What was the purpose of this walkout? What questions do you still have?
Write down your thoughts and questions on the lined side of your notecard.
Write your name on the blank side.
LESSON STEPS:
1. Do Now
2. VIDEO
3. REFLECTION PIECE
Write 1 paragraph about what you learned from the video, the movement that is continuing to grow, and your own feelings or call to action.
Do Now:
Take the first 5 minutes to calmly reflect on today's walkout.
What are your thoughts? What was the purpose of this walkout? What questions do you still have?
Write down your thoughts and questions on the lined side of your notecard.
Write your name on the blank side.
LESSON STEPS:
1. Do Now
2. VIDEO
3. REFLECTION PIECE
Write 1 paragraph about what you learned from the video, the movement that is continuing to grow, and your own feelings or call to action.
monday, march 12, 2018
title: Viva la causa
Lesson 1- Exploring the film
Homework: NONE
DO NOW:
Look at your photo. Write a short description about the person who appears on your photo based solely on the image provided.
Prompts:
Objectives
Activites will help students:
One photo for each student.
Framework
Viva La Causa tells the story of a dedicated coalition of people from diverse classes, races and religions who stood together for justice, proving that the mightiest walls of oppression can be toppled when people are united and their cause is just. In this lesson, students will connect with farmworkers and allies who participated in la causa and explore key themes of the film.
DO NOW:
Look at your photo. Write a short description about the person who appears on your photo based solely on the image provided.
Prompts:
- What does this person do for a living?
- Where were they born, and where do they live?
- What is this person passionate about?
Objectives
Activites will help students:
- Write descriptive compositions based on visual prompts that connect symbolically with one of the farmworkers or allies depicted in Viva La Causa.
- Understand and deconstruct the main concepts of the lm, including the importance of labor unions, the basic tenets of nonviolence, and the power of collective action across lines of race, class, gender and faith.
- Understand that people from all walks of life have a role to play in social change and that, by joining together to support a just cause, individuals can advance equality and justice.
- What responsibilities do individuals have to society? What responsibilities does society have to individuals?
- Whose responsibility is it to ght for those who are being exploited by some- one or something more powerful?
- What factors might motivate you to ght for a cause?
- What causes some social movements to succeed while others fail?
- How can we affect social change in a nonviolent way?
- What does it mean to be empowered?
One photo for each student.
Framework
Viva La Causa tells the story of a dedicated coalition of people from diverse classes, races and religions who stood together for justice, proving that the mightiest walls of oppression can be toppled when people are united and their cause is just. In this lesson, students will connect with farmworkers and allies who participated in la causa and explore key themes of the film.