ELA Final Class: Blogging, Exit Survey, and Found Poems

Happy final day of class!!!  We did it!!  Way to go!  To finish off the year, you have a couple of ends to tie up today.  First of all, you need to finish the tasks I introduced Friday:

• Blogging Challenge #8: Today is your last day to post and comment on the blog.  After you finish challenge #8, make sure that you have all eight blogs posted.  Also, take some time to comment on your peer's blogs.  Make sure everything is in top form before final grades!
• Third Hour
• Fourth Hour
• Exit Survey

After that, we'll move onto poetry writing!  You have a couple of options for poetry writing today.  Click on the links below to get started:

• Autobiographical Spoken Word Poems
• Free form Spoken Word Poems
• Found Poetry 

ELA Final Essay, Blogging, and Exit Survey

In the last couple of days of English Language Arts, you have several tasks to complete.

1. Final Essay:  Click on the link to see the prompt.  Make sure to complete your essay in size 12, Times New Roman font, and double space the lines.  Proofread for grammar and spelling!
2. Final Blogging Challenge: Blogging Challenge #8.  Click on the links below to go to your class website:
• Third Hour
• Fourth Hour
3. Exit Survey:  Complete the survey to help me adjust my teaching for the future.  Answer honestly and completely.  Your responses will be anonymous. 

Chapter 22 Resources

Chapter 22: 

What factors and events influenced the outcome of the Civil War?

DUE DATES:

   June 5th: Ch. 22 Workbooks Due, Vocabulary/Key People Due & UNIT 7 TEST
   June 9th: Social Studies Final

To help you study, I've embedded the Prezi we are using in class below:

Also, I've embedded the Key People/Key Battles Review from class below.  See the last slide in this slide show for additional resources you can explore to learn more.

Life of a Civil War Soldier RAFT Project

Today, you will be researching what a particular part of life was life for soldiers in the Civil War. To do this, you will make a creative project to inform an audience about this aspect of life. In this project, you will choose your role, audience, format, and topic. 

Refer to this Google Doc for further instructions on how to create this RAFT project.

Civil War resource

In class, we will be working with an awesome website that uses infographics to teach about the Civil War. This website can help us learn all about different aspects of the Civil War, from what the average soldier looked like, to the specific battles that were fought during the war. 

Click here for the link to this awesome resource, created by the History Channel!

Chapter 21 Resources

Chapter 21: A Dividing Nation

Which events of the mid-1800s kept the nation together and which pulled it apart?

Definitions of the vocabulary and key people will be due on Thursday, June 5th, which is the day of our Unit 7 Test.  To help you with your notes, I've included the class resources below:

Here's the Prezi we used in class to study the events in Chapter 21:

And here's the power point with the key people:

Preparing for High School

This week, we've been working in building skills necessary to succeed in high school.  I emailed Amy Schwab, a guidance counselor at La Follette, asking for advice she would pass along to high school freshman.  Check out the advice she sent, as well as a a sample student schedule below:

• Advice for High School
• La Follette Sample Schedule

In addition, we talked about the importance of email in the high school setting.  In particular, we talked about emailing etiquette when emailing teachers and adults.  For more on our email lesson, click the link below:

• Email Etiquette

Finally, we discussed the option to participate in Lancer 101, a one week summer program for incoming La Follette High School Freshman.  I've included the link for more information and for sign-up below:

• Lancer 101