From the desk of Mr. Adam Sharpnack: As the students read the book Night by Elie Wiesel, we explore stereotypes and the universal themes of hate and pain. As a summative assessment, each student is to research 4 news articles on hate crimes, record them in a graphic organizer, and draw connections through the theme of hate. The students get really engaged in the research, reacting with shock and disgust toward the crimes and empathy for the victims.They start their research paper on hate crimes by crafting a thesis sentence with a theme topic as the central idea that is broken down into 3 sub-topics. These sub-topics then become the main topic for each of the 3 body paragraphs. The claim in the sub- topic is then supported in the body paragraphs by using citations that the students draw from the articles that they researched on their own. They organize all of the paper, sentence-by-sentence, in an outline that they will use to to type their final draft into a Google Doc.
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M.Hickson - It's Friday at Hillside and English I is having fun! Mr. James class is playing Quizlet Live with vocabulary terms and elements of plot. Quizlet Live is a collaborative technology based game where teams work together to match key terms and concepts from their class to the correct answer. Students don't all have the same answer choices on their screen, so they are forced to collaborate within their group while they compete across the classroom. Students in Mr. James classroom were fully engaged and enjoying the activity. Happy Fun (learning) Friday!
You can access quizlet live and information about how to play here: https://quizlet.com/features/live We had a fun day in American History I this week. We're studying life in Colonial America right now, so I brought my banjo to class for a lesson on early African-American music and culture. I left the banjo sitting in a chair by the door at the beginning of class, so students could see it as they entered the room. Having a strange object on display was a good way to start class, because it sparked lots of questions, and students would pick up the instrument and experiment with its sounds. Later that day, a student who isn't in my class approached me in the hall and said "I saw you playing banjo on Snapchat". I consider it a success that some of my students were interested enough in their history lesson to record it and share it on social media!
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